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Japan escapes typhoon, but another on way
Tokyo, Aug 9, 2006 Japan on Thursday narrowly escaped a powerful typhoon which shifted course near Tokyo, but another storm was forecast to pass near the southern island chain of Okinawa, meteorologists said. Typhoon Maria drenched eastern and northern Japan with heavy rain and brought high waves, cancelling a number of flights and ferry runs to the dismay of summer vacationers. Maria, packing winds of 83 ... more Earthquakes hit Albania, no casualties reported
Tirana, Aug 9, 2006 Several earthquakes measuring up to 4.7 on the Richter scale have hit Albania in the past few days, the country's main seismologist center in the capital Tirana said Wednesday. The last tremor, centred in Himara, near the Ionian sea, some 130 kilometers (65 miles) south of Tirana, was registered at 4:10 am (0210 GMT), officials said. There have been no reports on casualties or damage fro ... more Floods kill six in northern Kenya
Marsabit, Kenya, Aug 9, 2006 At least six people have drowned and hundreds displaced after flash floods swept through villages in northern Kenya in the last three days, officials said on Wednesday. Hundreds of livestock have also been swept away in the region that is recovering from a searing drought that also affected the whole east African region, they said. "Six people have been swept away by raging floods in Loi ... more Moderate quake rocks southern Philippines
Manila, Aug 9, 2006 A moderate quake with a magnitude of 5.1 struck off the southern Philippine island of Mindanao on Wednesday, the US Geological Survey said. The seismology office in Manila said it is still trying to plot the coordinates of the quake, adding that it has no reports of casualties or damage. USGS said the quake occurred at 9:15 am (0115 GMT) and 116 kilometers (72 miles) under the seabed. Th ... more Passengers stranded in flooded channel in India
Jodhpur, India, Aug 9, 2006 The Indian military is planning an airborne rescue bid to save at least 40 passengers from a bus stuck in a flooded channel in the northern Indian state of Rajasthan, police said. The passengers scampered atop the bus in Rajasamud district after it fell into an irrigation stream and settled on its bed, police inspector general Rajiv Dasut said. "The currents are very strong and the bus c ... more |
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Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, Aug 9, 2006 Rescue workers have recovered at least 12 bodies in their search for hundreds of people missing from weekend flash floods that devastated an Ethiopian town, officials said Wednesday. The recovery brought the death toll from flooding in the eastern town of Dire Dawa and outlying areas to at least 212, but frantic rescue efforts were continuing even as hopes faded for some 300 people still una ... more Rescue teams recover 11 bodies as search in Ethiopian floods continues
Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, Aug 9, 2006 Rescue workers recovered at least 11 bodies in their search for hundreds of people missing from killer weekend flash floods that devastated an eastern Ethiopian town, increasing the toll, officials said on Wednesday. The recovery brought the death toll from flooding in Dire Dawa and outlying areas to at least 211, but police said frantic rescue efforts were continuing as the chances of locat ... more Floods in India leave almost 200 dead, 860,000 displaced
Hyderabad, India, Aug 9, 2006 Ethiopian flood toll climbs to 224 as hope for missing fade
Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, Aug 9, 2006 Rescue workers have recovered at least 25 bodies in their search for hundreds of people missing from weekend flash floods that devastated an Ethiopian town, officials said Wednesday. The recovery brought the death toll from flooding in the eastern town of Dire Dawa and outlying areas to at least 221, but frantic rescue efforts were continuing even as hopes faded for some 300 people still una ... more Arson investigated as fires blaze in Spain; Portugal, Greece also hit
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Muzaffarabad, Pakistan, Aug 8, 2006 Five people were killed when a boulder carried by a landslide crushed their house in Pakistani Kashmir Tuesday, while monsoon rains left eight others dead or missing elsewhere. The landslip near the town of Balabandi came after days of rain loosened a mountainside made unstable by last year's South Asian earthquake. "A woman, her daughter aged three and three sons died when a huge boulde ... more Spain investigates arson claims as forest fires rage in northwest
Madrid, Aug 8, 2006 A Spanish police unit specialising in organised crime Tuesday was investigating the spate of forest fires which have ravaged northwestern Spain in recent days, amid claims that many were deliberately set. Teams made up of firefighters and more than 3,500 forest workers, backed up by 30 aircraft, were battling 56 blazes in the worst hit northwestern region of Galicia while a further 40 were r ... more Two dead in Philippines landslide induced by storm
Baguio, Philippines, Aug 8, 2006 Two children were killed and three other people were injured when a landslide caused by tropical storm Bopha crashed into a village in the northern Philippines, rescuers said Tuesday. The mountain hamlet of Balani, near Tabuk town in the Cordillerra range of the main Philippine island of Luzon, was struck by the landslip after hours of heavy rain late Monday. A five-year-old boy and his ... more Floods in west, north of Austria after heavy rain
Vienna, Aug 8, 2006 Parts of northern and western Austria were put on flood alert late Monday following heavy rain over the weekend but the situation was improving early Tuesday, authorities said. This comes after the country experienced record high temperatures of up to 36 degrees in recent weeks. Flood alarms were triggered around Vienna, in the spa town of Baden just south of the capital and in Krems and ... more Families bury massacre victims amid tight security
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