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Rescuers struggled through mud and pounding rain Friday to clear mountain roads and retrieve more than 160 dead from dozens of landslides that buried villages and cut off towns in the rain-soaked northern Philippines.
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Local disaster management officials put the death toll from the quakes at 535.
Earlier U.N. figures that put the death toll at 1,100 were just estimates, said...
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