Philippine chemical spill sickens 31
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Noxious fumes from a chemical dumped into a Phillipine creek sent at least 31 people to a hospital Tuesday and forced at least 4,000 to flee their homes, officials said.
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By Staff Reports  A woman who was overcome by a leaking dry-cleaning chemical and fell unconscious into a chemical puddle Thursday was decontaminated at the site and taken to a hospital.
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At least 37 people have died when severe tropical storm Durian hit southern Vietnam, destroying boats and houses after leaving more than 1,000 dead or missing in the Philippines.
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The bodies of three people, including a  child, washed ashore in the Philippines on Friday and divers  saw many corpses still trapped inside a capsized ferry, army  officials said.
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About 20 people were killed when a fuel tanker truck exploded as it was negotiating an uphill road in the southern Philippines, a police official said Friday.
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Philippine floods and landslides killed 32 people and left more than 100 towns under water or buried, Agence France-Presse reported, citing civil defense officials.
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A total of 335 Chinese school students have been taken ill in three separate food poisoning incidents in recent days due to poor sanitation in the nation's education system.
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By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Writer, The Associated Press. The spill _ the worst on the river in nearly a decade _ stranded commercial vessels trying to move goods through the busy Port of Philadelphia
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At least 21 people have been killed and dozens missing and feared drowned after a tsunami triggered by a huge earthquake struck Malaysia&#39;s northern coast, officials say.
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More than 10 children have died of diarrhoea or dysentery in the storm-battered Philippines and fears of further sickness as well as an outbreak of malaria are rising due to the wet conditions and a lack of clean drinking water, UN agencies warned.
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A toxic batch of home-brewed alcohol has killed 31 people in several towns in central Pakistan, police and hospital officials say.
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Today marks the 20th anniversary of the world&#39;s worst industrial disaster -- an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 people killed by a leak from a Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India.
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Floods in the Indonesian capital have killed at least 20 people and made nearly 200,000 homeless, with the deluge of muddy brown water up to 4 metres (13 feet) deep in some areas, officials said on Sunday.
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killed up to 600 people in a part of the northern Philippines due to be hit by a typhoon in just over 24 hours. forced to carry supplies on foot after roads were cut off and bad weather grounded rescue helicopters.
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About 200 people died after flash floods  and landslides devastated several coastal towns and left  swathes of the northern Philippines under water, officials said  on Tuesday.
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REAL, Philippines - Flash floods and landslides triggered by back-to-back storms that lashed the northeastern Philippines had killed more than 600 people by Friday, with nearly 400 still missing, military officials said.
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Get INQ7 breaking news on your Smart mobile phone in the Philippines. Send INQ7 BREAKING to 386. BANGKOK, Thailand -- At least 36 people were killed and many more were feared dead after a series of tsunamis