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Tokyo braces for torrential rain as major typhoon moves in
Associated Press, Published on 11/10/2019
» TOKYO: A powerful typhoon is forecast to bring about 60 centimetres of rain and destructive winds to the Tokyo area this weekend, with the government warning people to stockpile supplies or evacuate before it gets too dangerous.
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Indonesia says death toll in Sulawesi quake passes 2,000
Associated Press, Published on 09/10/2018
» JAKARTA: The death toll from the earthquake and tsunami on Indonesia's Sulawesi island has climbed past 2,000, the disaster agency said Tuesday, as authorities prepared to end the search for thousands of victims feared buried in mud and rubble in the hardest-hit neighbourhoods.
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Monsoon rains collapse houses in India, killing 37
Associated Press, Published on 28/07/2018
» LUCKNOW, India: At least 37 people have been killed this week as monsoon rains triggered house collapses and flooded wide swaths of land in northern India, officials said Saturday.
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Snow, high winds hit Europe
Associated Press, Published on 20/03/2018
» BUCHAREST, Romania: Emergency crews in Croatia struggled to contain a swollen river that reached record levels southeast of Zagreb Monday, while soldiers distributed food and drinking water to a section of Albania that has been flooded for two weeks.
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Myanmar bulldozes what is left of Rohingya villages
Associated Press, Published on 23/02/2018
» First, their villages were burned to the ground. Now, Myanmar's government is using bulldozers to literally erase them from the earth -- in a vast operation rights groups say is destroying crucial evidence of mass atrocities against the nation's ethnic Rohingya Muslim minority.
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Myanmar army massacred dozens of Rohingya, survivors say
Associated Press, Published on 21/12/2017
» UKHIA, Bangladesh: For six hours he hid in an upstairs room, listening to the crackle of gunfire and the screams of people being slaughtered outside his Myanmar home.
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Selfies and surveillance: North Korea's new connectivity
Associated Press, Published on 10/11/2017
» PYONGYANG: Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online.
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Wild elephants attack Rohingya camps, kill 4 in Bangladesh
Associated Press, Published on 15/10/2017
» DHAKA, Bangladesh -- Wild elephants attacked a new camp where Rohingya refugees were sleeping, killing a woman and her three children in southern Bangladesh, an official said Sunday.
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New fires in empty Rohingya village raise questions
Associated Press, Published on 07/09/2017
» Journalists saw new fires burning Thursday in a Myanmar village that had been abandoned by Rohingya Muslims, and pages ripped from Islamic texts that were left on the ground. That intensifies doubts about government claims that members of the persecuted minority have been destroying their own homes.
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1 million South Sudanese refugees now in Uganda
Associated Press, Published on 17/08/2017
» KAMPALA, Uganda -- The number of South Sudanese refugees sheltering in Uganda has reached 1 million, the United Nations said Thursday, a grim milestone for what has become the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis.
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