Floods News
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Blantyre -
While helicopters and boats fan out across Malawi's devastated floodlands to search for the living, families and friends of the missing have begun the grim task of digging for the dead.
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Kuala Lumpur -
A police helicopter carrying aid to displaced flood victims in northeastern Malaysia has crashed, injuring four crew members, a police official said Thursday as flood waters continued to recede.
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Kuala Lumpur -
At least 21 people have been killed and eight others are missing after the worst flooding in decades across Malaysia's northeast, police said Wednesday, with almost a quarter of a million people displaced.
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Pengkalan Chepa -
Malaysia on Sunday pledged more funds to help over 160,000 people hit by the country's worst flooding in decades, as forecasters warned fresh rain could hamper efforts to relieve thousands left stranded by the waters.
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Pengkalan Chepa -
Rescue teams struggled Saturday to reach inundated areas of northeast Malaysia as victims accused the government of being slow to provide assistance after the country's worst flooding in decades.
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Paris -
The worst flooding in years in southern France has claimed five lives and forced more than 3,000 people to evacuate their homes, officials said Sunday.
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Geneva -
At least four people were killed as landslides triggered by torrential rain slammed into houses and buildings on either side of the Swiss Italian border Sunday, police and media said.
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Tropical Storm Mario made landfall in Northern Luzon in the Philippines late Friday after dropping heavy rains in Metro Manila, causing widespred flooding that prompted government to suspend classes in grade schools up to college level.
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Jammu Kashmir, the north Indian Himalayan state in India, will see a steep fall in its tourism prospects this year, thanks to devastating floods that have hit the state, the worst in five decades.
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Srinagar -
Flood waters swept an overcrowded bus carrying a wedding party into a gorge on Thursday with all but six of the 50 on board feared dead in Indian Kashmir, officials said.
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Vaideeni -
Flooding caused by torrential rains in eastern Europe has killed three people, with a further four missing, Romanian and Bulgarian authorities said Wednesday.
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Bucharest -
Around a thousand tourists from Romania have been left stranded by flash floods in Bulgaria which left 14 dead around the Black Sea resort of Varna, the Romanian government said on Saturday.
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Varna -
Flash floods in Bulgaria have killed at least 14 people, including two children, with others missing after torrential rains lashed the east of the country, authorities said Friday.
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Belgrade -
More bodies were recovered from the Serbian town of Obrenovac Sunday as unprecedented floods swept the region, bringing the overall death toll across the Balkans to 44.
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New research by scientists in Chicago has determined that the bitterly cold and snowy weather in the US and Canada, and the intense storms and rain across the UK and Western Europe, is being driven by a meandering jet stream, that may be here for good.
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Two weather agencies in Great Britain have reported that the country faced its wettest January since their records began more than 100 years ago.
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Henley On Thames -
A Politician in the United Kingdom has been suspended for stating in an interview that the recent flooding in the country was 'divine retribution for legalisation of Gay Marriage.'
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Flooding was in the news earlier this month, and it still is, but some people are even unhappier with the response than they were with the deluge.
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Whether it is global warming or something else, floods have been a reality for people living in some areas of the UK, and for longer than you'd think.
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Cebu -
Community preparedness proves to be the key to prevent loss of life and property in times of natural calamities such as typhoons, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and other natural occurrences of extreme force and proportion.
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Many Filipinos are praising international media for its comprehensive coverage of the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda in Phl) and for bringing the flight of typhoon victims to the global community.
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Australia tops the list of donor countries for the victims of Typhoon Haiyan, a deadly super typhoon that hit central Philippines last weekend, killing more than 3,000 people and destroying homes and vital infrastructure along its path.
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Guiuan -
The first in a series of landfalls of super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda in Phl) took its toll on the fishing town of Guiuan, Eastern Samar in central Philippines, turning the historic town into a pile of rubble with very few structures left standing.
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Tacloban -
The comprehensive and continuing news coverage by CNN International of the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda in Phl) has triggered immediate delivery of relief goods to the victims of the deadly typhoon from local and international donors.
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Philippine President Benigno Aquino has placed the nation under a state of calamity after super typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda in Phl) flattened a wide area in central Philippines, killing over 1,000 people and destroying many homes and vital infrastructure.
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The continuing live TV coverage by CNN International of super typhoon Haiyan's aftermath in central Philippines has been hailed by many Filipinos particularly the families of typhoon victims who are still isolated from the rest of the country.
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The death toll in the aftermath of Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda in Phl.) that battered central Philippines on Friday could reach over 1,000, an official of the Philippine National Red Cross said.
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Super Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Typhoon "Yolanda," has weakened while traversing the West Philippine Sea heading towards Vietnam and still packing maximum sustained winds of 175 kph near the center and gustiness of up to 210 kph.
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Netizens in the Philippines have turned to social media to share their prayers with close family members, friends and everyone who believe in the power of the almighty to divert the approaching super typhoon and spare the country of another major calamity
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A strong typhoon with an estimated wind speed of over 240 kilometers per hour is forecast to hit the Philippines in 48 hours according to Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA)
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Floods Image
Buenos Aires flooded from torrential rains on April 2, 2013 YouTube
Emergency services personnel are carried by tractor at dusk through flooded land in the village of Burrowbridge in south west England February 7, 2014. Many areas of the Somerset Levels have been underwater for over a month © Reuters / Toby Melville
A women is rescued during flooding in Athens, Greece, February 22, 2013 YouTube
Ground crumbles underfoot as apocalyptic floods sweep India in 2013. Screen grab
Buenos Aires flooded from torrential rains on April 2, 2013 YouTube
Fields are under more than five feet of water in Corey's Mill, close to the A1(M) Motorway
Dar es Salaam city www.en.wikipedia.org
Helicopter rescue captured on helmet cam. YouTube
Torrential rains have flooded Buenos Aires in Argentina - April 2, 2013 YouTube
Little Pine Creek Flooding.
This is a park in Greenslopes, near Brisbane City, when the water had finally started to settle down only yesterday.
Aerial view of flooding in Mozambique. YouTube
This is a scene of some of the flooding of the River Thames on Feb. 12, 2014. Agenda NWO
Colorado: Around 200 people are said to be unaccounted for in eastern Colorado. Flood waters have toppled buildings, washed out roads and bridges and overwhelmed farmland Euronews
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