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Officials say floods and mudslides from heavy rains in northeastern Brazil have killed at least 14 people in the last month and driven tens of thousands from their...
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Authorities put helicopters on standby for emergencies Tuesday as they evacuated residents from homes north of Sydney inundated by floodwaters, while wildfires...
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Sodden residents of northeastern Australia were trying to clean up from weeks of rain that have left more than half of their state _ and area twice the size of Spain _...
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As if torrents washing through homes and sweeping away furniture wasn’t scary enough. Authorities in storm-battered northeastern Australia warned residents...
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AP, Sydney
Rain-battered residents in northeastern Australia were on alert Wednesday for snakes in their bathrooms and crocodiles in the road following repeated storms that have...
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AP, Manila
Weeklong rains have triggered flash floods, landslides and sea surges across the Philippines, leaving at least 11 people dead and another 8 missing, officials said...
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AP, Suva
Rain-soaked Fiji faces at least three more days of storms after its worst flooding in a generation killed 11 people, forced thousands to flee swamped homes and stranded...
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AP, Suva
Rain-soaked Fiji faces at least three more days of storms after its worst flooding in a generation killed nine people, forced thousands to flee swamped homes and...
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AP, Suva
Heavy rain and strong winds lashed Fiji’s flood-devastated western region Wednesday, where the death toll from the worst storms in a generation rose to nine and...
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AP, Centralia
Floods, mudslides and avalanches in the Pacific Northwest kept tens of thousands of people from their homes Thursday, brought freight trains to a standstill and...
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Guwahati city facing interplay of bomb blasts and floods
Guwahati city is called as the gateway of entire North east. People from all over the region reside or come...
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Everyday, people around the globe are threatened by storms, floods, droughts, landslides, earthquakes and other natural hazards and suffer because of their social,...
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AP, Sao Paulo
Floods and landslides in southern Brazil have killed 45 people, driven 22,000 from their homes and ruptured a major gas line, officials said Monday.
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AP, Hanoi
Flooding killed at least 11 people in Vietnam’s southern and central regions, submerged thousands of homes in its largest city and stranded air and railway...
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AP, Hanoi
Nguyen Thi Hoe has been stuck in her flooded house for an entire week with no running water, no electricity and three restless children. She’s about to go crazy...
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AP, Hanoi
Pumps ran nonstop in the Vietnamese capital Wednesday to clear water following the city’s worst rainfall in 35 years, in storms that sparked flooding across large...
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The death toll from nearly a week of flooding across northern and central Vietnam stood Monday at 54 and parts of the capital remainded under water, but rains were...
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AP, Hanoi
Much of Vietnam’s capital remained under water Sunday as the death toll from the city’s worst flooding in two decades climbed to 18, disaster officials and...
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AP, Hanoi
Much of Vietnam’s capital remained under water Sunday as the death toll from the city’s worst flooding in two decades climbed to 17, disaster officials and...
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AP, Tegucigalpa
Officials say at least 29 people are dead and 14 others are missing because of heavy rains in Honduras.
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Floodwaters cause misery, increase the death toll, force evacuation and cut essential services, disrupting human life. Today in different parts of the world, rivers...
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