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Cyclone Amphan loss estimated at $13 billion in India, may rise in Bangladesh

May 23, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Aid Relief / Humanitarian Agencies, ASIA, Asia / Pacific, Asylum / Immigration / Refugees, Bangladesh, Disasters / Accidents, Emerging Market Countries, Environment, Graphics, Health / Medicine, INDIA, Major News, Overseas Development Aid, Pictures, Precipitation, Real Estate Markets, STORM, Transmission Lines, US, Utilities (TRBC), Video, Water, Wind / Hurricanes / Typhoons / Tornadoes

KOLKATA/DHAKA (Reuters) – A powerful cyclone that tore through India’s eastern state of West Bengal this week has caused a

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Indian PM offers help to cyclone stricken Kolkata, Bangladesh counts cost

May 22, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Aid Relief / Humanitarian Agencies, ASIA, Asia / Pacific, Asylum / Immigration / Refugees, Bangladesh, Disasters / Accidents, Emerging Market Countries, Environment, Graphics, Health / Medicine, INDIA, Major News, Pictures, Precipitation, STORM, Transmission Lines, US, Video, Wind / Hurricanes / Typhoons / Tornadoes

KOLKATA/DHAKA (Reuters) – Prime Minister Narendra Modi, peering down from his aircraft on Friday, saw the devastation and flooding caused

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Cyclone swamps parts of India, Bangladesh, evacuations keep death toll down

May 21, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Aid Relief / Humanitarian Agencies, ASIA, Asia / Pacific, Asylum / Immigration / Refugees, Bangladesh, Disasters / Accidents, Emerging Market Countries, Graphics, Health / Medicine, INDIA, Major News, Picture available, Pictures, Precipitation, STORM, Transmission Lines, US, Video, Wind / Hurricanes / Typhoons / Tornadoes

KOLKATA/DHAKA (Reuters) – Rescue teams searched for survivors in eastern India and Bangladesh on Thursday, a day after the most

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Strongest cyclone in over a decade slams into India, Bangladesh

May 20, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Aid Relief / Humanitarian Agencies, ASIA, Asia / Pacific, Asylum / Immigration / Refugees, Bangladesh, Disasters / Accidents, Emerging Market Countries, Health / Medicine, INDIA, Major News, Precipitation, STORM, Transmission Lines, US, Weather Markets / Weather, Wind / Hurricanes / Typhoons / Tornadoes

KOLKATA/DHAKA (Reuters) – A powerful cyclone barrelled into eastern India on Wednesday with heavy rain, wind and waves as millions

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Tens of thousands evacuated as India, Bangladesh brace for super cyclone

May 19, 2020 Clark Pilon 0 Comments ASIA, Asia / Pacific, Bangladesh, Disasters / Accidents, Emerging Market Countries, Health / Medicine, INDIA, Major News, Precipitation, Race Relations / Ethnic Issues, STORM, US, Wind / Hurricanes / Typhoons / Tornadoes

KOLKATA/DHAKA (Reuters) – Authorities in eastern India and Bangladesh were scrambling on Tuesday to move tens of thousands of villagers

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Death toll in Philippine typhoon rises to 10 as storm moves off

December 4, 2019 Clark Pilon 0 Comments ASEAN Countries, ASIA, Asia / Pacific, Disasters / Accidents, Emerging Market Countries, Floods, Graphics, Philippines, Pictures, Precipitation, Sport, STORM, US, Video, Weather Markets / Weather, Wind / Hurricanes / Typhoons / Tornadoes

FILE PHOTO: A man walks past electric poles lying on the main highway after Typhoon Kammuri hit Camalig town, Philippines,

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Typhoon hits Philippines, disrupting travel, work

December 3, 2019 Clark Pilon 0 Comments ASEAN Countries, ASIA, Asia / Pacific, Disasters / Accidents, Emerging Market Countries, Floods, Philippines, Pictures, Precipitation, Sport, STORM, US, Video, Weather Markets / Weather, Wind / Hurricanes / Typhoons / Tornadoes

MANILA (Reuters) – A typhoon struck the Philippines on Tuesday bringing heavy rains and prompting preemptive halts in air travel,

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Abe visits typhoon-hit areas; Japan may postpone new emperor’s parade

October 17, 2019 Clark Pilon 0 Comments ASIA, Asia / Pacific, Celebrities, Disasters / Accidents, EMPEROR, General News, Government / Politics, Japan, Precipitation, STORM, US, Wind / Hurricanes / Typhoons / Tornadoes

Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks attends the conference Communication Connecting Europe and Asia, in Brussels, Belgium September 27, 2019.

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Japan rescuers wade in muddy waters to find typhoon survivors

October 14, 2019 Clark Pilon 0 Comments ASIA, Asia / Pacific, Disasters / Accidents, General News, Japan, Major News, Precipitation, STORM, US, Weather Markets / Weather, Wind / Hurricanes / Typhoons / Tornadoes

A residential area flooded by the Chikuma river, caused by Typhoon Hagibis is seen in Nagano, central Japan, October 13,

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Ten killed, 16 missing after fierce typhoon pounds Tokyo

October 13, 2019 Clark Pilon 0 Comments Aid Relief / Humanitarian Agencies, Airlines (TRBC), ASIA, Asia / Pacific, Company News, Disasters / Accidents, Floods, Formula 1, General News, Japan, Major News, Passenger Transportation : Ground and Sea (TRBC), Picture available, Pictures, Precipitation, Rugby Union, Sport, STORM, Transportation (TRBC), US, Video, Weather Markets / Weather, Wind / Hurricanes / Typhoons / Tornadoes

TOKYO (Reuters) – Ten people were killed and 16 were missing after the most powerful typhoon to hit Japan in

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