Tropical Storm Barry nears New Orleans, raising flood threat
NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Nervous New Orleans residents prepared to flee as Tropical Storm Barry closed in on Thursday, with
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Six foreign nationals killed as severe weather hits Greece
ATHENS (Reuters) – Six foreign nationals, including two children, were killed and more than 100 other people injured after gale-force
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Japan’s Kagoshima city orders 600,000 residents into evacuation centers, safe areas due to heavy rains
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japan’s southern city of Kagoshima on Wednesday ordered its nearly 600,000 residents to take shelter in evacuation
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Seaweed washing up on Mexico’s top beaches a ‘minor’ problem – president
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – An infestation of seaweed along large stretches of Mexico’s Caribbean coast, home to many of the
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Seven killed as Hungarian boat carrying South Korean tourists capsizes on Danube
BUDAPEST (Reuters) – At least seven people were killed and more than a dozen were missing after a pleasure boat
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Cyclone hits Bangladesh after battering India, mass evacuations save lives
DHAKA/BHUBANESWAR, India (Reuters) – The strongest cyclone to hit India in five years killed at least 12 people in eastern
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‘Dream come true’: Two new national parks born in Chilean Patagonia
FILE PHOTO: A view of U.S. millionaire Douglas Tompkin’s Pumalin Park, in southern Chile shown in this January 1996 file
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Red Hot Chili Peppers rock Egypt’s pyramids
CAIRO (Reuters) – Californian group Red Hot Chili Peppers played in front of Egypt’s great pyramids of Giza on Friday,
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Snow, sleet threaten U.S. East Coast, hinder hundreds of flights
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A winter storm bore down on the U.S. East Coast on Wednesday, threatening to snarl New
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Congo’s Virunga park reopens eight months after deadly ambush
FILE PHOTO: An endangered silverback mountain gorilla from the Nyakamwe-Bihango family feeds within the forest in Virunga national park near
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