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Twelve dead, 10 missing as typhoon pounds S. Korea
Aug 28, 2012 (AFP)
Twelve people were killed and 10 were missing after a strong typhoon pounded South Korea Tuesday, uprooting trees, sinking ships and cutting power to almost 200...
S. Korea on alert as major typhoon Bolaven nears
Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)
South Korea was Monday bracing for major typhoon Bolaven, with a main port and ferry routes closed, classes cancelled, a military exercise suspended and officia...
New Orleans in crosshairs of expected Hurricane Isaac
Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)
New Orleans braced for another major storm Monday, seven years after Hurricane Katrina swamped the fabled US city of jazz, leaving behind a devastating sprawl o...
Floods kill 10, displace 20,000 in Nigeria after dam opened
Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)
Flooding in eastern Nigeria has killed at least 10 people and displaced an estimated 20,000 following heavy rains and the release of water from a dam in neighbo...
7.3 quake off El Salvador, no injuries or damage
Aug 27, 2012 (AFP)
A powerful earthquake measuring up to 7.3 hit off El Salvador's Pacific coast, triggering a brief tsunami alert for Central America and Mexico but causing no in...
Taiwan braces for return of Typhoon Tembin
Aug 26, 2012 (AFP)
Taiwan warned Sunday that Typhoon Tembin was likely to return as people struggled to clear mud-filled homes after the storm pounded the south of the island with...
Storm Isaac makes landfall in Haiti
Aug 25, 2012 (AFP)
Tropical Storm Isaac hit Haiti with driving rain and gale-force winds early Saturday as it came ashore in the impoverished Caribbean nation still reeling from t...
Isaac hammers Haiti, delays US Republican convention
Aug 25, 2012 (AFP)
Tropical Storm Isaac battered Haiti on Saturday, leaving at least two people dead, and hit Cuba as Florida braced for a possible hurricane that forced a one-day...
Typhoon Tembin pounds Taiwan, injuring 5
Aug 24, 2012 (AFP)
Typhoon Tembin swept across southern Taiwan Friday, toppling trees and ripping off rooftops after thousands of people were evacuated to avoid a repeat of a dead...
N. Korea agrees to receive S. Korean flood aid
Aug 24, 2012 (AFP)
North Korea agreed Friday to receive an unspecified amount of wheat and medicine in aid from South Korean private groups despite high cross-border tension, acti...
Flooding kills 11, displaces hundreds in northern Nigeria
Aug 24, 2012 (AFP)
Flooding in two areas of northern Nigeria has killed at least 11 people and displaced hundreds, officials and residents said Friday, the latest casualties in th...
Forty-four killed since July in Niger floods: UN
Aug 23, 2012 (AFP)
At least 44 people have been killed by severe flooding that has affected Niger since mid-July, the UN's humanitarian affairs office said Thursday, while scores ...
N. Korea to talk to S. Korean NGOs about flood aid
Aug 23, 2012 (AFP)
North Korea has agreed to meet South Korean private groups for talks about aid following deadly floods, officials said Thursday, despite icy relations between t...
Taiwan evacuates nearly 5,000 as typhoon closes in
Aug 23, 2012 (AFP)
Taiwan evacuated nearly 5,000 people Thursday ahead of Typhoon Tembin, as a military official warned major measures were needed a avoid a repeat of a deadly dis...
NASA sees an active tropical Atlantic again
Aug 23, 2012 (SPX)
The Atlantic Ocean is kicking into high gear with low pressure areas that have a chance at becoming tropical depressions, storms and hurricanes. Satellite image...
Heavy rain, floods kill 26 in Pakistan: officials
Aug 23, 2012 (AFP)
Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain have killed at least 26 people and destroyed hundreds of houses in northern Pakistan, officials said on Thur...
Fresh flood kills four in southern Russia
Aug 22, 2012 (AFP)
Russian authorities said Wednesday that a flash flood had killed four people in the southern Krasnodar region where 172 people drowned in rising waters last mon...
Tropical Storm Isaac strengthens in Caribbean
Aug 22, 2012 (AFP)
Tropical Storm Isaac strengthened on Wednesday and looked set to become a hurricane as it churned through the Caribbean on a path that could have it hit Florida...
Haiti faces new tragedy as Storm Isaac swells
Aug 22, 2012 (AFP)
Haiti braced for a cruel new battering Thursday as Tropical Storm Isaac swept across the Caribbean towards the shattered island, gathering strength and threaten...
Two Hurricane Global Hawks, Two Sets of Instruments
Aug 21, 2012 (SPX)
NASA's Hurricane Severe Storm Sentinel Mission, or HS3, will be studying hurricanes at the end of the summer, and there will be two high-altitude, long-duration...
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