Hurricane&#39;s toll grows heavier in eastern USA
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Hurricane Ivan&#39;s US death toll rose to at least 52 Sunday after a weekend of spreading floods and tornadoes from the Florida Panhandle through the Appalachians.
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PUNTA GORDA, United States : The Hurricane Charley death toll rose to 19 and hundreds of thousands of people remained without power as the relief operation gathered pace.
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Manila (AsiaNews/Agencies) - The preliminary toll from the last typhoon that hit the eastern Philippines was almost 500 dead and 350 missing.
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Relief workers battled rain and choppy seas Tuesday to deliver food and medicine to the country&#39;s northeast, while officials raised the death toll from last week&#39;s back-to-back storms to at least 740 people.
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Homeowners unfortunate enough to get slammed by multiple hurricanes in the past seven weeks have had to face the risk of another less deadly but more expensive disaster.
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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.  - The death toll from Hurricane  Charley climbed to 16 on Sunday as thousands left homeless in  southwest Florida sorted through wreckage and President Bush  rushed in to view the devastation.
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GONAIVES, Haiti - The death toll from Tropical Storm Jeanne rose to 573 in Haiti last night as search crews recovered dozens of bodies carried away by flooding or buried by mud, officials said.
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Hurricane Ivan intensified Thursday, heading straight for Jamaica and possibly Florida with 160 mph winds after it killed at least 16 people while pummeling Grenada, Barbados and other islands.
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WEST PALM BEACH, United States : Residents along Florida&#39;s east coast braced as the first squalls of strengthening Hurricane Jeanne slammed the coast with stinging winds and driving sheeted rain, the fourth major storm to hit the state in six weeks.
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LEE COUNTYâ While the death toll continues to rise in Asia from the tsunami that hit on December 26th, several local families are worried about their loved ones in Sri Lanka.
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MIAMI : Residents along Florida&#39;s east coast braced themselves yet again as strengthening Hurricane Jeanne threatened to be the fourth major storm to hit the state in six weeks.
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The death toll from Hurricane Charley's  destructive rampage in Florida has risen to 22, and about  388,000 people remain without power in the state, government  officials said on Thursday.
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Hurricane Frances weakened but still pounded Florida with high wind and heavy rain today after it smashed across the state&#39;s east coast, knocking out power to 4 million people, shredding roofs and uprooting trees.
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At least one person died and more than a million were left without power today as Hurricane Jeanne hit Floridaâs east coast. It is the fourth hurricane to hit the Sunshine State in the past six weeks, something
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THE death toll from a powerful earthquake in eastern Indonesia rose to 19 today while damaged roads hindered the evacuation of wounded residents, a relief official said.
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Hurricane Ivan carved a path of destruction through the Southeast with winds reaching 130 miles an hour.
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MIAMI - Florida and Georgia declared states of emergency and evacuation orders were extended to more than a million people Thursday as a massive hurricane worked its way toward the US mainland.