Evacuated Australians return home as floodwaters ease
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Thousands of Australians returned home on Monday after floods and storms in the wine-making Hunter Valley area eased, but it will take weeks for other residents to return to their flooded homes and farms.
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Residents trickled back into town Saturday after a fire at a hazardous materials plant, relieved that there were no serious injuries or damage to their homes while they were forced out for two nights.
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Thousands of Californians forced from their neighborhoods by this week's wind-whipped wildfires returned home on Friday, some of them finding their property unscathed amid the destruction and others discovering nothing but blackened rubble.
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Two French journalists freed after a  4-month hostage ordeal in Iraq returned home to a heroes'  welcome on Wednesday as a relieved government basked in  national joy at their release.
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Thousands of Indonesians were cleaning  up mud and debris from their flood-damaged homes on Saturday  after rains eased and waters that forced many into cramped  emergency shelters begin to subside.
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Britain yesterday began to clear up the chaos caused by summer downpours across much of the country as forecasters promised a brief respite from the rain before the wet weather returns this week.
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Floodwaters engulfed homes and farms and swept through areas north of Sydney on Monday while disaster workers began a massive clean-up following deadly storms which battered Australia&#39;s east coast.
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EDMONTON (CP) - Fire crews extinguished a blazing gas well Tuesday night that had burst into flame shortly after hundreds of people who had been evacuated returned to their homes.
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The threat of widespread power cuts across southwest England has diminished overnight, while over 43,000 homes left powerless by the worst flooding to hit Britain in decades have had their supplies restored, power companies said on Tuesday.
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Rescue workers are urging thousands of people to evacuate their homes after deadly storms lashed Australia&#39;s east coast, leaving parts of one city looking like an earthquake had struck, officials said Sunday.
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Australian terror suspect Mamdouh  Habib arrived home on Friday after being released from U.S.  detention at Guantanamo Bay where he was held for almost three  years on suspicion of helping al Qaeda.
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By DIRK MEISSNER  VICTORIA (CP) - Prince George flood evacuee Keith Larabie and his two cats were back home Monday after spending three nights in a downtown hotel as the dirty, brown Fraser River peaked just centimetres from his trailer home's prized back porch.
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Thousands of residents of the Indonesian capital began returning to their homes on Wednesday as flood waters receded, but they faced a huge task clearing up streets and homes caked in stinking garbage and mud.
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Dramatic flooding replaced relentless drought in parts of eastern Australia Thursday, as Prime Minister John Howard expressed hopes that the country&#39;s worst drought in a century may be coming to an end.
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Thousands of Australians are stranded by floodwaters and some could remain isolated for up to a week after torrential rains hit the country's east coast, emergency officials said Monday.
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Thousands of people who fled four days of fighting in an eastern Congo town began returning home Wednesday after clashes between government forces and renegade troops subsided, witnesses said.
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Boscastle residents could be allowed back home, ten days after devastating flash floods hit the Cornish village.