Pakistan Steps Up Rescue as Rain Casualties Mount
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - Pakistan stepped up search and  rescue operations Sunday for tens of thousands affected by  flash floods after the heaviest rains in the country in two  decades, in which close to 300 people have been killed.
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Thousands of people flee their homes as a cyclone batters Pakistan's coast after days of rain in the south.
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MANILA, Philippines -- High winds and heavy rain from the approaching Typhoon Namandol are hampering rescue efforts in the northeastern Philippines where emergency services are struggling with the aftermath of two earlier storms.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - Water levels are falling in some parts of flood-hit Pakistan, enabling rescuers to reach areas cut off for days, but more bad weather is on the way, officials said on Monday.
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Five people were killed and 3 were missing in the Philippines as heavy rain whipped up by two typhoons caused floods and landslides in Manila and neighboring areas, disaster officials said on Thursday.
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Authorities in Pakistan and India  prepared for more severe weather on Monday, evacuating people  from low-lying areas, after weekend storms and flooding killed  more than 350 people across the region.
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Karachi - Cricket officials in Pakistan on Wednesday proposed to Sri Lanka and India that a flood-relief one-day fundraising match be organised to help the victims of the tsunami.
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More aid from the international community poured into tsunami-devastated South Asian countries Wednesday as the death toll from the worst earthquake and tsunamisclimbed to over 80,000.
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At least 54 people have died and more than a million have fled their homes as torrential rains lashed parts of India and Bangladesh, officials said.
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Aid workers backed by military  helicopters battled on Sunday to provide food for 200,000  people displaced by monsoon floods in southern India, while the  Pakistani city of Karachi was mostly without power after a  storm killed 43 people.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - The death toll in Pakistan due  to the heaviest rains and snowfall in more than a decade rose  to as many as 51 on Friday, and a burst dam in the southwest  raised fears that many more people may have died.
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The death toll from the heaviest rains in 25 years in Indian Kashmir rose by three to 16 as troops rushed supplies to people cut off by floods, police said.
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Military helicopters plucked flood-hit Pakistanis from rooftops Thursday as bad weather began to clear after a cyclone that officials said had affected 800,000 people.
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The Panamanian government declared a state of emergency Saturday in response to torrential rains which triggered flooding and mudslides, leaving at least 10 people dead and a dozen others missing.
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The death toll from a burst dam in Pakistan rose on Saturday to 135 from 80, bringing the country's total number of dead from weeklong rains and avalanches to 278, officials said.
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Officials in Pakistan say 278 people have died as a result of a week of torrential rains and snowstorms.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - Pakistan launched a relief  operation for 20,000 people stricken by torrential rains in the  southwest, as floods and avalanches killed over 260 nationwide  so far, officials said on Saturday.