Tacloban City

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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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  Philippines Disaster City Braces For Strong Typhoon

  Authorities in a Philippine city ravaged by super typhoon Haiyan were today faced with how to keep residents still living in tents after the 2013 disaster safe as a new, powerful cyclone threatened to bring giant waves ashore.

• Remittances throw lifeline to Philippines' typhoon survivors

  A sister living on the other side of the world gave Roberto Retanal what he needed most to piece his humble home back together.

• Ban Ki-moon visits storm-ravaged Philippine city

  U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is visiting a central Philippine city devastated by a super typhoon that killed more than 6,100 people last month.

• Jail breakout? Philippine typhoon zone criminals swim out

  It's 103 and counting - that's the number of prisoners on the loose after escaping Tacloban City Jail when a super typhoon devastated the central Philippines, flooded the prison and smashed open the main gate.

• Just three pathologists struggle to identify Philippine dead

  Three pathologists struggled on Monday to identify dozens of fast-decomposing bodies at a mass grave, victims of the strongest typhoon ever recorded, illustrating the scale of the task the Philippines faces in the hardest-hit city of Tacloban.

• Typhoon-struck Philippine city begins mass burial

  A Philippines city devastated by the typhoon buried some of its dead in a mass grave in a hillside cemetery on Thursday, a small sign of progress in a relief effort that has yet to reach most of the tens of thousands affected by the disaster.

• Agony flows from unwatched threat: a wall of water hit Philippines

  Two days before the typhoon hit, officials rolled through this city with bullhorns, urging residents to get to higher ground or take refuge in evacuation centers. Warnings were broadcast on state television and radio.

• Deadly crush as Filipinos try to flee typhoon nightmare

  Thousands of people on Wednesday jostled and begged for seats on scarce flights out of a Philippine city demolished by a super typhoon, as anger at the slow pace of aid reaching the disaster zone turned deadly.

• Tons of aid in Philippines, but not where needed

  The day after Typhoon Haiyan struck the eastern Philippine coast, a team of 15 doctors and logistics experts was ready to fly to the worst-hit city to help. On Tuesday, five days into what could be the country's deadliest disaster, they were still waiting to leave.

• Inmates escape jail in typhoon-hit Philippine city

  A Philippine general says that inmates have escaped from a provincial jail in the typhoon-hit city of Tacloban after breaking down a jail wall.

• 2 planes, 3,000 people: Misery in typhoon-hit city

  When two Philippine Air Force C-130s arrived at the typhoon-wrecked airport here just after dawn Tuesday, more than 3,000 people who had camped out hoping to escape the devastation surged onto the tarmac past a broken iron fence.

• Toppled Philippine church cross overlooks typhoon's destruction

  A church spire, its cross hanging loose, looks down on smashed houses, wrecked cars, toppled power lines and snapped trees, as dazed survivors try to count the cost.

• Philippine typhoon death toll could reach 10,000, say officials

  The death toll from one of the strongest storms on record that ravaged the central Philippine city of Tacloban could reach 10,000 people, officials said on Sunday.

• Over 100 dead in typhoon onslaught in Philippines

  One of the strongest storms on record slammed into the central Philippines, killing more than 100 people whose bodies lay in the streets of one of the hardest-hit cities, an official said Saturday.