North Korea says 437,000 affected by floods: WFP
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Floods in North Korea in recent weeks have affected 437,000 people and damaged more than one-fifth of the country&#39;s rice crop, according to official North Korean estimates, the UN&#39;s food relief agency said Friday.
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Some of the worst flooding to hit North Korea in decades has killed at least 600 people, double the previous known toll, the official news agency said at the weekend.
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At least 79 people have been killed and 74 are missing in some of the worst storms southwest China has seen in many years. Disaster relief officials said on Monday that at least 55 were killed and 47 were
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43 North Korean refugees entered the Canadian Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday, demanding passage to South Korea. This was the largest number of North Korean defectors to enter a foreign legation ever.
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Floods and heavy rain have killed more than 60 people and left some 200,000 homeless in the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan, officials and police said Sunday.
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North Korea said Monday last week's  explosion in its remote northeast was part of a hydro-electric  project, the BBC quoted the North's foreign minister as saying.
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Severe flood damage has in two months affected more than 65,000 people in west Africa, making thousands homeless and wrecking infrastructure, the Red Cross and Red Crescent organisations said Friday.
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Helicopters delivered food to survivors and picked up the sick and injured on Friday as flash floods began to recede. More than 650 people were killed and nearly 400 are missing in the disaster, which was triggered by back-to-back storms.
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SEOUL, South Korea - North Korea&#39;s forests are depleted, its rivers and streams are filled with runoff from factories and a reliance on coal energy has created severe urban air pollution, the United Nations said Friday in its first report on the communist
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At least 43 people were killed and more than 400 are missing in a remote area of southwestern Pakistan after heavy rains caused a large dam to burst, sweeping villagers into the Arabian Sea, officials said Friday.
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Floods that swept across North Korea earlier this month killed at least 600 people, double the previously known toll, the country's official news agency said Saturday.
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Beijing: At least 64 people were confirmed dead and 70 missing in floods and landslides in southwest China&#39;s Sichuan province and Chongqing municipality following heavy rainfall, the state media reported on Monday.
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Thousands are affected by flooding in Zimbabwe, Zambia and Mozambique, with at least 21 people dead.
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South Korea sent a first shipment of food   and other supplies to reclusive North Korea on Wednesday to   help it cope with the aftermath of heavy July flooding.
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Â· Nearly 200 drowned and 650,000 homes destroyed Â· UN appeals for aid as food sent to seven countries
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Several people have died while 70,000 others were displaced by floods in central Mozambique and the situation is expected to worsen till mid-February, the National Institute of Natural Disaster Management (INGC) said Monday.
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Heavy rains and thunderstorms that struck Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi have killed 43 people, an official said Sunday.