Officials warn of disease risk as rain lashes Jakarta
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Health officials have warned of a growing risk of disease from the filthy floodwaters inundating the Indonesian capital, where hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes.
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Several loud blasts were heard in the  Indonesian capital Jakarta and two nearby towns early on  Sunday, but one radio report said it could have been a meteor  shower.
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Landslides and floods caused by torrential rains have left up to 81 people dead or missing in Indonesia's Central Java province, police and rescue officials said on Wednesday.
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By ANTHONY DEUTSCH  JAKARTA, Indonesia - In a low-lying riverside district of the capital, dead chickens floated in the same filthy floodwaters that women used to bathe children and wash clothes.
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Several loud blasts believed to be  caused by a meteor shower echoed across the Indonesian capital  Jakarta and nearby towns early on Sunday, startling residents  who reported seeing flying objects in the sky.
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Floods and storms have killed 12 people  on Indonesia's main island of Java, a health official said on  Sunday.
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The authorities in Singapore voice concern about a tropical disease that has killed 23 people this year.
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Floods blocked roads and railways in Jakarta and thousands of people abandoned their homes in low-lying areas as torrential downpours virtually paralysed the Indonesian capital.
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Indonesia's capital faced more misery on Monday from floods that officials estimate have killed at least 20 people and displaced 340,000, as swollen rivers and canals spilled muddy water onto the city streets.
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Fears of disease gripped Indonesia's flood-hit capital on Friday with thousands of people living in cramped emergency shelters and some streets still inundated a week after the city's worst floods in five years.
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More heavy rains struck Indonesia's  capital on Thursday, hampering clean-up efforts and piling on  misery for hundreds of thousands of people camping under  make-shift shelters after days of floods.
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Tens of thousands of tsunami survivors are at risk from diseases spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and crowding.
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JAKARTA , Indonesia -- Strings of bright laundry hang among the gravestones and people who are brave enough sleep among the dead, taking refuge on the high ground of the Karet Cemetery from the worst flooding in the Indonesian capital in decades.
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In an effort to prevent the spread of anthrax into the capital, the Jakarta administration has temporarily banned livestock supplies from Bogor regency, where a number of villagers in one district have died or fallen ill from the disease over the past week
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Indonesia has put out most of the forest fires on its part of Borneo island after inducing rain with cloud seeding, minimizing the spread of a smoke haze that is threatening air quality in the country and its neighbors, the government said Tuesday.
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MOGOL, Indonesia  - Landslides and floods triggered by heavy rain have left over 120 people dead or missing on Indonesia's Java island, as rescuers struggled on Thursday to pull out bodies buried under thick mud, officials said.
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Torrential rain triggered floods in the Indonesian capital on Friday, blocking roads and trapping residents in their homes as torrents of muddy water reached a depth of 2 metres (6.7 ft), police and witnesses said.