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Schools Shut, Flights Cancelled As Typhoon Gaemi Brings Rain In Philippines
Heavy rain from Typhoon Gaemi has flooded the Philippine capital Manila and nearby cities, forcing authorities to shut schools, and offices and cancel flights on Wednesday and declare a state of calamity in a region that is home to 13 million people.
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98 Killed In Philippines As Storm Nalgae Causes Floods, Landslides
The death count from a storm that battered the Philippines has jumped to 98, the national disaster agency said Monday, with little hope of finding survivors in the worst-hit areas.
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Philippines Typhoon Leaves At Least 12 Dead, Pushes 300,000 From Homes
At least 12 people have died in the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year, the disaster agency said Friday, after the storm swept across the archipelago uprooting trees, toppling power poles and flooding villages.
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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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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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Monsoon Rain Kills 8 People in Philippines
Torrential monsoon rains killed at least eight people in the Philippines, the country's disaster relief agency said today, and the toll was expected to rise as two tropical storms battered northern Luzon, the main island in the archipelago.
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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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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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Novel Blackberry alerts for Philippine disasters
A Philippine charity launched a novel warning system for disaster-prone areas using Blackberry devices and laptops.
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Novel Blackberry alerts for Philippine disasters
A Philippine charity launched a novel warning system for disaster-prone areas using Blackberry devices and laptops.
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Schools Shut, Flights Cancelled As Typhoon Gaemi Brings Rain In Philippines
Heavy rain from Typhoon Gaemi has flooded the Philippine capital Manila and nearby cities, forcing authorities to shut schools, and offices and cancel flights on Wednesday and declare a state of calamity in a region that is home to 13 million people.
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98 Killed In Philippines As Storm Nalgae Causes Floods, Landslides
The death count from a storm that battered the Philippines has jumped to 98, the national disaster agency said Monday, with little hope of finding survivors in the worst-hit areas.
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Philippines Typhoon Leaves At Least 12 Dead, Pushes 300,000 From Homes
At least 12 people have died in the strongest typhoon to hit the Philippines this year, the disaster agency said Friday, after the storm swept across the archipelago uprooting trees, toppling power poles and flooding villages.
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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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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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Monsoon Rain Kills 8 People in Philippines
Torrential monsoon rains killed at least eight people in the Philippines, the country's disaster relief agency said today, and the toll was expected to rise as two tropical storms battered northern Luzon, the main island in the archipelago.
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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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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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Novel Blackberry alerts for Philippine disasters
A Philippine charity launched a novel warning system for disaster-prone areas using Blackberry devices and laptops.
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Novel Blackberry alerts for Philippine disasters
A Philippine charity launched a novel warning system for disaster-prone areas using Blackberry devices and laptops.
