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SF Gate
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Massive flooding across a broad stretch of southern China killed almost 60 people and forced 1.3 million others from their homes, state media reported Monday.
People were forced to flee their homes across nine provinces, including Sichuan, still reelin..
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MSNBC
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Roofs rot underwater, stretched out by the thousands over miles and miles. But it is the roofs jutting just above the brown, stinking floodwaters that truly make the heart ache.
Those roofs are makeshift homes now, refuges for weary men, women and chil..
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BBC News
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Flooding caused by heavy rain has left hundreds of people dead or missing in North Korea, state media has reported.
The rain had flooded tens of thousands of hectares of farmland and destroyed more than 30,000 homes, official news agency KCNA said...
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CNN
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Torrential rain caused flash floods and brought transport chaos on Friday as the Met Office issued severe weather warnings for vast swathes of the country. Forecasters said the downpours could dump up to 4 inches (10 centimeters) of rain in less than 24 h..
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FOX News
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Chance of showers during the 2008 Beijing Olympics: 50 percent. But Chinese meteorologists have a plan to bring sunshine.
The meteorologists say they can force rain in the days before the Olympics, through a process known as cloud-seeding, to clean the..
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CNN
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Rescuers pulled dozens of bodies from villages devastated by landslides in western Indonesia, many digging through mud with their bare hands on Thursday as they were lashed by more rain. At least 87 people were killed or feared dead and tens of thousands..
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BBC News
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At least 20 people have been killed in flooding in the Dominican Republic following torrential rains dumped by Tropical Storm Noel.
Most of the deaths were reported along the south coast, east of the capital Santo Domingo.
It is feared the death tol..
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USA Today
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Flood-afflicted Britons kept a wary eye on the skies Friday, hoping to avoid more rain as they labored to dry out and clean up their homes and businesses after the worst inundation in more than half a century.
The news was not all good: forecasters pre..
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CNN
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Hundreds of sections of embankments along China's third-longest river have become loose, threatening the homes of millions of people after three weeks of deadly floods across the country, state media said on Tuesday. Torrential rain has wrought havoc acro..
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USA Today
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Lightning and heavy rain destroyed homes in two remote villages in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing more than 50 people, officials said.
Seven houses were completely destroyed and others damaged in the villages in Dirbala district, 150 miles no..
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BBC News
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Torrential rain has been sweeping the UK, causing travel chaos and forcing the evacuation of homes and schools.
Helicopters were sent to rescue people from homes in Worcestershire, a hospital was flooded in West Sussex and a man died in his home in Cum..
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Al Jazeera
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After days of heavy rain, part of a mountain tumbled on the bus as it wound through an indigenous area near the mountain village of Zacacoapan, in the Sierra Negra in the central southern state, burying it entirely under mud, fallen trees and boulders...
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USA Today
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Pakistan called on the international community to rush aid to some 1 million people left homeless by massive flooding amid forecasts Monday that still more rain would be dumped on the stricken areas in coming days.
Floods due to a cyclone and rain sinc..
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SF Gate
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Geroan's chain-saw shop doesn't officially exist. Nor does the motorbike workshop next door, or the rickety wooden shack called a supermarket.
These small business ventures are located along a dirt road known as the Trans-Iriri highway, an illegal high..
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