Thousands stranded by Australian floods: officials
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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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There is a warning that some of Australia's major cities could run out of drinking water.
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The death toll from the wild storms lashing Australia&#39;s east coast rose to at least eight Sunday as hundreds of people prepared to evacuate their homes with flooding expected to worsen.
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Indonesian rescuers, police and troops in inflatable boats have helped evacuate Jakarta residents stranded in severe floods that have killed 20, as the number left homeless approached 350,000.
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Thousands of people awoke Saturday in make-shift shelters in southern and central England after abandoning their cars on flooded highways or leaving trains disrupted by torrential rains.
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BEIJING, China -- Torrential floods in southwest China have killed as many as 100 people prompting officials to call in the military to help rescue scores of people and locate dozens of missing.
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Floods unleashed by torrential rains have killed at least 100 people and left dozens more missing in southwestern China, prompting authorities to put the massive Three Gorges hydroelectric project on alert, officials reported Tuesday
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Three people were dead and hundreds were stranded on Monday as torrential downpours caused widespread chaos and the worst floods seen in northern England in years.
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LONDON, July 23 -- Britain's worst flooding in decades left tens of thousands of families without water or electricity Monday night and forced thousands from their homes, including some dramatically rescued from rising waters by helicopters and boats.
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Wild winter weather across China left  hundreds of thousands of people stranded on Monday and crippled  energy and transport, stoking fears of rising deaths and  economic damage blighting the biggest holiday of the year.
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Australian emergency services on Friday said seven people were feared missing as fierce storms hit the country&#39;s east coast, with five swept away when a highway collapsed in torrential rain.
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Rescue workers urged thousands of people to evacuate their homes Sunday after deadly storms lashed Australia&#39;s east coast, leaving parts of one city looking like an earthquake had struck, officials said.
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Flooding causes cancellation of train services and problems on the roads
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Hundreds of thousands in Pakistan are now stranded without help four days after a cyclone hit coastal areas.
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More than 200 people are feared dead as a result of flash floods and landslides triggered by a storm in the Philippines, officials say.
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Almost 180,000 people have been stranded in the southwestern Chinese province of Yunnan by a return of snow and freezing weather which has blocked roads and caused blackouts, state media said on Sunday.
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Firefighters battle to rescue dozens of residents by boat after they became stranded by flood waters.