" MANILA (Updated 3 p.m.)-- Two French tourists were among at least 10 people killed when heavy rains collapsed an earthen dike and fed landslides and floods that deluged towns and villages in the northern...
" MANILA - Heavy rains have triggered a landslide that killed a 4-year-old girl and her grandmother, a disaster-response official said. Disaster-response administrator Joey Marco says two hours of rain loosened the...
80 people are still missing and feared buried in a landslide in the remote area of Wulong County in the Chongqing municipality of China. A mountain collapsed onto an iron ore mine and six houses in the area. The workers, residents and even passers by could be trapped. Seven...
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JAKARTA - Six people have died in landslides triggered heavy rain on the main Indonesian island of Java, police said Saturday."We have found all six bodies. It was hard to find them as we only used hands and...
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A threat of further landslides has forced the Guatemalan authorities to call off the search for bodies among the rubble, as 30 people are still labeled as missing. About 800 people have been evacuated from the...
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"Dhaka, Dec 30: Former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and her nine-party alliance raced to a landslide victory, winning 225 seats of the 299 seats that figured in Bangladesh's ninth General Election.
This meant a...
Earthquake in Bavaria – 46 years of CSU majority destroyed Earthquake, tsunami, landslide those where the most used words in the yesterday's coverage from the Election of the State Parliament of Bavaria. The CSU...
Crowd control is poor in India and stampedes are common. Maybe there were many lives could be saved if the procedure of this sort incident was improved by the authorities. Just like the survivor said the victims...
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Despite widespread condemnation over his one sided election victory, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has embark on his first first foreign tour after getting reelected . He is in Egypt to attend...
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Every time I visit Nowpublic there appears to be another new natural disaster.Is this the result of Global Warming or are we just in the middle of a natural cycle?"Flash floods and landslides triggered by Typhoon Fengshen have left at least 14 people dead and forced the...
"At least six people are dead and more than 140 injured after a powerful earthquake struck northern Japan, triggering landslides. The 7.2-magnitude quake was centred on Iwate - a rural mountainous region on...
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The potential for the 'quake lake' - a lake in China whose dam was threatened by the earthquake there - to flood has been removed, according to the Chinese government."Evacuees headed down from temporary camps Wednesday after Chinese authorities declared the flood threat over...
A funeral was held today for Mao Mao, the nine-year old panda that was killed in the earthquake in China last month. The funeral was held at the Wolong Nature Reserve."The world famous panda center was badly...
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