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24 Dead In Philippines As Tropical Storm Megi Causes Landslides, Flooding
At least 24 people have been killed in landslides and flooding across central and southern Philippines, authorities said Monday, after tropical storm Megi dumped heavy rain and disrupted travel ahead of the Easter holidays.
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22 Dead In Philippine Storm; Heavy Rain Forecast For Next 24 Hours
At least 22 people died from a storm that swept through the central Philippine islands at the weekend, authorities said Sunday, with rescue operations under way in flood inundated communities.
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26 Dead From Landslides After Philippine Storm: Officials
Landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Kai-Tak have killed 26 people in the central Philippine island of Biliran, authorities said Sunday, a day after the storm pounded the east of the archipelago nation.
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9 Killed As Storm Causes Chaos In Central Philippines
Nine people were killed and hundreds spent the night huddled on their roofs in the central Philippines as floods generated by a powerful typhoon inundated villages, disaster officials said on Wednesday.
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Central Philippines In Darkness As Typhoon Melor Hits
Wide areas of the central Philippines were plunged into darkness on Tuesday as powerful typhoon Melor barreled into the coconut-growing region, causing flooding, storm surges and forcing almost 800,000 people to evacuate their homes, officials said.
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Typhoon Threatens Central Philippines, 750,000 Evacuated
Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated from the central Philippines today as a typhoon with winds of up to 150 kph (95 mph) made landfall, dumping heavy rain that could cause flooding, landslides and storm surges, authorities warned.
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Philippines Benigno Aquino Faces Growing Political Storm Over Deadly Raid
Philippine leader Benigno Aquino is facing his biggest political crisis over a botched operation to capture a wanted militant, amid revelations that a suspended police general who is a close friend of the president played a central role in the raid.
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Pope Heads to Philippines to Comfort Typhoon Haiyan Survivors
Storms greeted Pope Francis when he arrived in the central Philippines city of Tacloban on Saturday to pray for the dead and comfort survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, the country's worst natural disaster that killed 6,300 people barely a year ago.
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Pope Francis Arrives At Philippines' Typhoon-Ground Zero
Pope Francis on Saturday arrived at a central Philippine city that was one of the worst hit by Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, the strongest storm ever recorded on land that claimed thousands of lives.
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Philippine Storm Death Toll Rises to 6
Six people have been killed in two days of heavy flooding as tropical storm Jangmi crossed the central Philippines on Tuesday, with water in some areas "neck deep", officials said.
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Philippine Typhoon Weakens But Leaves 21 Dead
Typhoon Hagupit weakened into a tropical storm today, leaving at least 21 people dead, forcing more than a million people into shelters but sparing most of the central Philippine region still haunted by last year's monster storm.
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Tens of Thousands Evacuated From Path of Philippines Typhoon
Tens of thousands of people fled coastal villages and landslide-prone areas in the central Philippines on Friday, a day before a powerful typhoon was expected to hit the island nation where thousands were killed in a devastating storm 13 months ago.
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China Braces for Second Typhoon; Taiwan Drenched
China was bracing Wednesday for the arrival of a second typhoon in as many weeks, as communities along the country's southern coast cleared away debris in the wake of the earlier storm that killed 46 people.
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Philippine Refugee Tent Fire Kills Mother, 5 Kids
An overnight fire razed a tent used as a temporary shelter by survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, killing a woman and five of her children, including a 4-month-old girl, officials in a central Philippine city devastated by the massive storm said on Wednesday.
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Classes reopen in Philippine typhoon zone
Schools reopened on Monday in badly damaged central Philippine towns for the first time since one of the world's strongest storms ever to hit land killed thousands two months ago.
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24 Dead In Philippines As Tropical Storm Megi Causes Landslides, Flooding
At least 24 people have been killed in landslides and flooding across central and southern Philippines, authorities said Monday, after tropical storm Megi dumped heavy rain and disrupted travel ahead of the Easter holidays.
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22 Dead In Philippine Storm; Heavy Rain Forecast For Next 24 Hours
At least 22 people died from a storm that swept through the central Philippine islands at the weekend, authorities said Sunday, with rescue operations under way in flood inundated communities.
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26 Dead From Landslides After Philippine Storm: Officials
Landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Kai-Tak have killed 26 people in the central Philippine island of Biliran, authorities said Sunday, a day after the storm pounded the east of the archipelago nation.
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9 Killed As Storm Causes Chaos In Central Philippines
Nine people were killed and hundreds spent the night huddled on their roofs in the central Philippines as floods generated by a powerful typhoon inundated villages, disaster officials said on Wednesday.
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Central Philippines In Darkness As Typhoon Melor Hits
Wide areas of the central Philippines were plunged into darkness on Tuesday as powerful typhoon Melor barreled into the coconut-growing region, causing flooding, storm surges and forcing almost 800,000 people to evacuate their homes, officials said.
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Typhoon Threatens Central Philippines, 750,000 Evacuated
Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated from the central Philippines today as a typhoon with winds of up to 150 kph (95 mph) made landfall, dumping heavy rain that could cause flooding, landslides and storm surges, authorities warned.
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Philippines Benigno Aquino Faces Growing Political Storm Over Deadly Raid
Philippine leader Benigno Aquino is facing his biggest political crisis over a botched operation to capture a wanted militant, amid revelations that a suspended police general who is a close friend of the president played a central role in the raid.
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Pope Heads to Philippines to Comfort Typhoon Haiyan Survivors
Storms greeted Pope Francis when he arrived in the central Philippines city of Tacloban on Saturday to pray for the dead and comfort survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, the country's worst natural disaster that killed 6,300 people barely a year ago.
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Pope Francis Arrives At Philippines' Typhoon-Ground Zero
Pope Francis on Saturday arrived at a central Philippine city that was one of the worst hit by Super Typhoon Haiyan in 2013, the strongest storm ever recorded on land that claimed thousands of lives.
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Philippine Storm Death Toll Rises to 6
Six people have been killed in two days of heavy flooding as tropical storm Jangmi crossed the central Philippines on Tuesday, with water in some areas "neck deep", officials said.
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Philippine Typhoon Weakens But Leaves 21 Dead
Typhoon Hagupit weakened into a tropical storm today, leaving at least 21 people dead, forcing more than a million people into shelters but sparing most of the central Philippine region still haunted by last year's monster storm.
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Tens of Thousands Evacuated From Path of Philippines Typhoon
Tens of thousands of people fled coastal villages and landslide-prone areas in the central Philippines on Friday, a day before a powerful typhoon was expected to hit the island nation where thousands were killed in a devastating storm 13 months ago.
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China Braces for Second Typhoon; Taiwan Drenched
China was bracing Wednesday for the arrival of a second typhoon in as many weeks, as communities along the country's southern coast cleared away debris in the wake of the earlier storm that killed 46 people.
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Philippine Refugee Tent Fire Kills Mother, 5 Kids
An overnight fire razed a tent used as a temporary shelter by survivors of Typhoon Haiyan, killing a woman and five of her children, including a 4-month-old girl, officials in a central Philippine city devastated by the massive storm said on Wednesday.
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Classes reopen in Philippine typhoon zone
Schools reopened on Monday in badly damaged central Philippine towns for the first time since one of the world's strongest storms ever to hit land killed thousands two months ago.
