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| RAWALPINDI (13th September 2011 7:42 pm) |
| By Muhammad Ejaz |
 Relief and Rescue operations continue by Pakistan Army troops in flood affected areas of Sindh, an ISPR statement said here Tuesday. Army has deployed over 1000 troops, 70 boats, 50 dewatering pumps for relief and rescues operation in flood hit areas of Sindh. Till date over 30,000 flood victims have been evacuated to safer places...
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| ISLAMABAD (11th September 2011 11:21 pm) |
| By APP |
 Federal and provincial governments have been mobilizing all the resources to help the affected people in Sindh following unprecedented monsoon rains that has so far killed over 150 people and destroyed crops and houses throughout the province. According to the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA), 4.9 million people have been affected as their houses have...
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| KAOHSIUNG (29th August 2011 5:38 pm) |
| By AFP |
 Taiwan deployed more than 50,000 troops on Monday and evacuated thousands of people as Typhoon Nanmadol pummelled some of the island’s most densely populated areas. Soldiers moved in to help flood-threatened residents, a motorcyclist was reported killed, and in one remote area more than 300 villagers were trapped by landslides. The typhoon, which left at...
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| ISLAMABAD (2nd June 2011 5:06 pm) |
| By APP |
 The Economic Survey of Pakistan for the year 2010-11 was launched here on Thursday. Federal Minister for Finance Dr.Abdul Hafeez Shaikh launched the pre-budget document, highlighting the over all performance of economy during the out-going fiscal year, providing a realistic feedback and basis for planning. The survey covers the development of all the important sectors...
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| MANILA (10th May 2011 11:03 am) |
| By AFP |
 Fifteen people were killed and nearly 70,000 people were forced from their homes as tropical storm Aere pummelled the Philippines, the government said Tuesday. The death toll from Aere, which hit on Sunday, was raised from nine, with six more people reported killed in floods, landslides and road accidents, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and...
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| BANGKOK (30th March 2011 3:10 pm) |
| By AP |
 At least four people have been killed in landslides in southern Thailand, bringing to 15 the death toll in the flood-battered region. A Krabi province official says another 10-20 people are missing in the landslides from late Tuesday night. Some seven villages were affected by the slides, three of which were inaccessible Wednesday morning. Vittayen...
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| ISLAMABAD (8th March 2011 12:05 pm) |
| By APP |
 Snowfall continues halting life at tourist resorts of Swat including Kalam, Bahrain, and Shangla. All the markets of the upper areas of Swat have been closed due to extremely cold weather and snowfall. Kalam road has been closed for last one month. 65 Kilometre road area from Kalam to Bahrain had swept away by flood...
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| COLOMBO (5th February 2011 12:11 pm) |
| By AFP |
 Renewed rains in Sri Lanka have flooded a large number of towns and villages and killed at least 13 people, officials said on Saturday. Heavy monsoon downpours have driven some 800,000 people out of their flooded homes and into state-run welfare centres or to stay with friends and relatives on higher ground, officials said. “The...
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| TERESOPOLIS (14th January 2011 12:38 pm) |
| By Reuters |
 Rescue workers in Brazil braced for more rain on Friday as they struggled to reach areas cut off by massive floods and landslides that look certain to have killed more than 500 people. In one of the country’s worst natural disasters, rivers of mud tore through towns in the mountainous Serrana region outside Rio de...
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| COLOMBO (14th January 2011 8:57 am) |
| By AFP |
 The number of people killed in Sri Lanka’s monsoon flooding and mudslides has risen to 27 with more than a million people still displaced by the devastating disaster, according to officials. The government’s Disaster Management Centre said 27 people were confirmed dead while another 12 were listed as missing following a week of heavy rains...
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| TERESOPOLIS (13th January 2011 12:17 pm) |
| By APP |
 Devastating mudslides and floods have killed nearly 270 people in the mountainous area near Rio de Janeiro, Brazilian officials said, warning that the death toll was likely to rise. Rescue operations in the area north of Rio known as the Serrana were suspended late Wednesday because of darkness and dangerous conditions. Entire neighborhoods in the...
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| BRISBANE (13th January 2011 12:08 pm) |
| By APP |
 Australia’s third-largest city Brisbane was turned into a “war zone” Thursday with whole suburbs under water and infrastructure smashed as the worst flood in decades hit 30,000 properties. Shocked evacuees surveyed the damage after floods that have swept eastern Australia peaked about a metre (three feet) below feared levels around dawn, sparing thousands more properties...
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| MANILA (13th January 2011 12:01 pm) |
| By APP |
 Sustained heavy rain and floods in the central and southern Philippines have killed 42 people and damaged crops and infrastructure worth more than 1 billion pesos ($23 million), disaster officials said on Thursday. Floods and landslides caused by more than two weeks of heavy rains in late December and January have displaced nearly 400,000 people,...
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| BRISBANE (9th January 2011 11:25 am) |
| By AP |
 A swollen river submerged bridges and inundated homes and stores Sunday in another town in Australia’s sodden Queensland state, where more heavy rain meant little respite from the country’s worst flooding in decades. Maryborough became the latest of some 40 towns to be left partly awash as the river running through it burst its banks...
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| SYDNEY (1st January 2011 9:38 am) |
| By Reuters |
 Floodwater rose across a vast area in Australia’s northeast on Friday, inundating 22 towns, forcing 200,000 residents out of their homes, and closing a major sugar export port. Flooding has already shut coal mines in Queensland state and its biggest coal export port, forcing miners such as Anglo American and Rio Tinto to slow or...
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