Humberto kills one as Texas border blasted
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Hurricane Humberto spared Houston but blasted the Texas-Louisiana border area on Thursday, killing one person, shutting down three refineries and cutting power to 100,000 customers.
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One foreign oil worker was killed and another seriously wounded on Wednesday when the Nigerian military launched a mission to free seven oil workers taken hostage from an offshore oil field, military sources said.
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Tropical Storm Humberto became Hurricane Humberto early on Thursday as it neared the Texas coast with maximum winds of 80 mph (128 kph).
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A U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent was killed Saturday when he was struck by a car driven by a suspected narcotics smuggler, officials said.
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One death was reported as Hurricane Frances hit some of the same stops that Hurricane Charley visited three weeks ago.
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Heavy rains from Hurricane Dean pounded western Mexico on Thursday after the storm killed at least 10 people in a three-day rampage across the breadth of the country.
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Hurricane Humberto makes landfall in the US state of Texas, bringing heavy rains to the already soggy region.
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A typhoon pounded Tokyo and surrounding areas on Friday, killing at least one man and prompting a flood warning, while snarled transport and power cuts affected thousands.
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Floods killed five people in Texas including a five-year-old girl and her grandmother who were swept away after torrential rain lashed the north of the state, local media reported.
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The remnants of deadly Hurricane Ivan,  which rampaged through the Caribbean and then into the U.S.  Gulf Coast a week ago, killing more than 100 people, have  reformed in the Gulf of Mexico as a tropical storm threatening  the Texas and Louisiana coasts.
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A U.S. man was shot and killed on the Caribbean coast of Honduras while trying to save a neighbor whose house was being robbed, authorities said Wednesday.
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Call it the instant hurricane. Humberto, which grew faster than any storm on record from tropical depression to full-scale hurricane landfall, surprised the Texas-Louisiana coast early Thursday with 85-mph winds and heavy rain that knocked out power to more than 100,000 and left at least one person dead.
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Hurricane Humberto made landfall early Thursday just west of the Texas-Louisiana state line, lashing the area with heavy rain and strong wind gusts.
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Heavy rains and whipping winds struck southeastern Texas on Wednesday as Tropical Storm Humberto closed in on the Texas coast from the Gulf of Mexico.
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ACAPULCO, Mexico  - Tropical Storm Henriette swept by Mexico's Pacific coast on Saturday, killing six people in the resort of Acapulco before moving out to sea, where it could become a hurricane.
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TOKYO : One person is dead and four others are missing as Japan&#39;s biggest typhoon in more than a decade pounded the south of the country with heavy rain and powerful winds, officials said.
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At least 18 oil workers were killed when a drilling rig hit an oil platform in stormy weather, spilling gas and oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned oil company said.