Thousands flee Oman storm threat
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Omani authorities evacuate coastal areas as an unusually powerful cyclone bears down on the Gulf sultanate.
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Pakistani rescuers struggled Wednesday to reach tens of thousands of people left homeless by a tropical cyclone that devastated much of the country&#39;s coastline and killed 19 people.
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Hundreds of thousands of people in southern Bangladesh fled their homes in panic fearing a tsunami after a major earthquake off Indonesia, officials said on Wednesday.
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Oil pulled back slightly but remained above $70 on Tuesday as a powerful cyclone reached the coastline of Oman and shut its oil and gas export terminals.
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Bad weather hampers efforts to rescue thousands of people stranded after a cyclone hits Pakistan's coastline.
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Hundreds of islanders fled to higher ground in the Turks and Caicos tonight as Hurricane Frances whipped up surf in the Caribbean and roared toward the Bahamas.
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Authorities urged millions of people from  New Orleans to northwest Florida to flee as deadly Hurricane  Ivan churned through the Gulf of Mexico on a track that could  bring it onto the U.S. coast by Wednesday night.
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Hundreds of thousands of people fled China&#39;s eastern coast as Typhoon Aere hit the mainland after battering Taiwan. Aere came ashore in Fujian province, south of Shanghai, late Wednesday afternoon.
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Thousands of panicking people in southern Chile flee their homes after a false tsunami alarm.
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Thousands of Pakistanis are  fleeing a tense northwestern town and outlying villages amid  fears of a showdown between the security forces and an Islamist  militant Taliban-style movement, residents said.
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More than 100 people were evacuated on Sunday from coastal towns in western Estonia as strong storms and heavy rains battered regions on the Baltic Sea causing flooding, officials said.
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Thousands of people fled their homes in panic on the Indonesian coast after hoax text messages spread warning them that a tsunami will hit the region, journalists and officials said Wednesday.
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Thousands of residents of coastal Sri Lanka, both in the south and east, began to flee inland again on Thursday, following the news that there were fresh tremors off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands further east.
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Thousands leave China's south-east coast as a  typhoon which caused havoc in Taiwan approaches.
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Hundreds of thousands of people along the US coast from New Orleans to northwest Florida were told to leave their homes on Tuesday as Hurricane Ivan roared into the Gulf of Mexico after grazing western Cuba.
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Swollen rivers from torrential rain forced thousands of people from their homes, and forecasters warned Monday that water levels could rise to critical levels.
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Hundreds of National Guard troops were on alert and officials in the Carolinas warned residents to be ready for anything Wednesday as Ernesto &#151; upgraded late Wednesday to a tropical storm &#151; moved north away from Florida.