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Officials: Floods kill at least 267 in Pakistan (AP)

Pakistani villagers move into safe place from a flooded village near Nowshera,  Pakistan, Thursday, July 29, 2010. Rivers burst their banks during monsoon rains, washing away streets, battering a dam and killing at least 60 people in most severe floods in decades in northwest Pakistan, officials said Thursday. Hundreds of thousands more were stranded as rescue workers struggled to reach far-flung villages.(AP Photo/Mohammad Sajjad)AP - The death toll in three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 267 on Friday, rescue and government officials said, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides.


Posted on 30 July 2010 | 1:35 am

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Suspect breaks sprinkler at Calif. cop station (AP)

AP - Police in Modesto, Calif., are wading through the damage from a flood at the downtown station after a suspect broke a sprinkler.

Posted on 29 July 2010 | 4:31 pm

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Flash floods kill over 110 in Pakistan, Kashmir (AFP)

Pakistanis evacuate in a flood-hit area of Nowshera. At least 113 people have died and thousands more have been made homeless as flash floods triggered by torrential rains hit northwest Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir, officials said Thursday.(AFP/A. Majeed)AFP - At least 113 people have died and thousands more have been made homeless as flash floods triggered by torrential rains hit northwest Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir, officials said Thursday.


Posted on 29 July 2010 | 12:46 pm

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Flash floods, storms kill about 150 people in Pakistan (Reuters)

Reuters - About 150 people have been killed by flashfloods and bad weather in Pakistan in the last week, with the country's northwest and Baluchistan provinces bearing the brunt of the storms, officials said on Thursday.

Posted on 29 July 2010 | 8:34 am

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The nation's weather (AP)

The forecast for noon, Thursday, July 29, 2010 shows a  strong cold front will push through the East Coast, bringing showers and thunderstorms across much of the Eastern U.S. and Tennessee Valley. Monsoon moisture keeps thunderstorms going in the Four Corners, and showers return to the Northern Plains. (AP Photo/Weather Underground)AP - Active weather was forecast to continue throughout the eastern half of the nation Thursday.


Posted on 29 July 2010 | 4:46 am

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Worst floods in a decade in China, 30,000 trapped (AP)

In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, flood water gushes from the Xiaolangdi Reservoir in Jiyuan, central China's Henan Province, Tuesday, July 27, 2010. The Xiaolangdi Reservoir on the Yellow River launched a sluice with the water outflux monitored at 15,000 cubic meters per second on Tuesday, Xinhua reported. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Miao Qiunao) ** NO SALES **AP - Floods caused by heavy rains in northeastern China stranded tens of thousands of residents without power Wednesday, as the worst flooding in more than a decade continued to besiege many areas of the country.


Posted on 28 July 2010 | 11:15 am

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Floods trap 30,000 in China's northeast (AFP)

Workers clean up debris of demolished buildings along the bank of the Yangtze River in China's Hubei province. More than 30,000 people are thought to be trapped by floodwaters in a town in northeast China, as torrential rain that has killed over 300 in two weeks continues.(AFP/File/AFP)AFP - More than 30,000 people are thought to be trapped by floodwaters in a town in northeast China, state media said Wednesday, as torrential rain that has killed over 300 in two weeks continues.


Posted on 28 July 2010 | 10:23 am

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Tornado in NE corner of Montana kills 2 at farm (AP)

In this photo taken Monday, July 26, 2010 and provided by National Weather Service, a tornado is seen in Scobey, Mont. Northeastern Montana is part of the Hi-Line, with vast stretches of plains and rolling wheat fields just south of the Canadian border. The area where the tornado touched down was 'extremely isolated,' Sheridan County Coroner David Fulkerson said. (AP Photo/National Weather Service)AP - A tornado ripped a family's farmhouse from its foundation in Montana's remote northeastern corner, killing two people and leaving neighbors and authorities to dig through the rubble to rescue a 71-year-old woman who was found next to her grandson's body. Her nephew was found dead 200 feet away.


Posted on 27 July 2010 | 7:35 pm

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Tropical Cyclone Birth Predicted with Supercomputer (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - It's the heart of hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico, the ripest time for tropical cyclones to develop over these waters. But predicting whether or not a storm system will grow into a hurricane is difficult.

Posted on 27 July 2010 | 2:50 pm

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China braces for more flooding as rains continue (AP)

Chinese soldiers move a speedboat during a mission to rescue villagers trapped in floodwaters in Luanchuan county, in central China's Henan province, Sunday, July 25, 2010. Though China experiences heavy rains every summer, flooding this year is the worst in more than a decade. More than 1,000 people have died or disappeared, the highest death toll since 1998. (AP Photo) **  CHINA OUT **AP - Troops sandbagged swollen rivers Monday and storm-battered regions across China prepared for more floods and potential landslides as forecasters predicted torrential rains this week.


Posted on 26 July 2010 | 8:36 am

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11 missing in China landslides: state media (AFP)

Chinese rescuers search for survivors after a landslide in Yunnan province earlier this month. Eleven people were missing after rain triggered landslides in southwest China on Monday, the latest victims of widespread flooding that has left 1,100 dead or missing, state media said.(AFP/File/Str)AFP - Eleven people were missing after rain triggered landslides in southwest China on Monday, the latest victims of widespread flooding that has left 1,100 dead or missing, state media said.


Posted on 26 July 2010 | 2:43 am

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Storms continue amid flood cleanup (Reuters)

Reuters - Large swathes of the United States suffered another day of extreme weather on Sunday, with hot temperatures in the nation's capital and Southeast coastal areas giving way to thunderstorms later in the day.

Posted on 25 July 2010 | 8:36 pm

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Haiti's homeless on the move again as hurricanes loom (AFP)

July 24 2010 photo shows a view of Camp Corail, located about 20 miles (32km) from Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Refugees living in unsanitary conditions alongside the roads, are packing up their belongings and moving to this site set up by the UN. The rains and winds expected to Haiti could exacerbate the already precarious situation of displaced persons camps.(AFP/File/Clarens Renois)AFP - Julie, her face a grimace of anguish, waits with her five children for a ride to their next shelter, to where more than 1,000 homeless Haitians have been ordered to go as hurricane season ramps up.


Posted on 25 July 2010 | 6:19 pm

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Flooding causes millions in damage in Iowa (AP)

Bystanders watch the water rise after the Maquoketa River flooded downtown Manchester, Iowa, heavy rainfall spanning the past 48 hours on Saturday, July 24, 2010. (AP Photo/Telegraph Herald, Mike Burley) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; MANDATORY CREDITAP - Flooding from the Maquoketa River after the Lake Delhi dam failed has damaged dozens of homes and businesses, causing millions of dollars in damage in Monticello, officials said Sunday.


Posted on 25 July 2010 | 5:24 pm

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Hayward expected to resign as BP looks to rebuild (AFP)

BP will sacrifice embattled chief executive Tony Hayward, pictured in June 2010, within days as it tries to rebuild its image in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, reports said Sunday.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Alex Wong)AFP - BP will sacrifice embattled chief executive Tony Hayward within days as it tries to rebuild its image in the aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster, reports said Sunday.


Posted on 25 July 2010 | 1:23 pm

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Eastern US cooks in summer heat, temps reach 100s (AP)

Jose Cruz, 32, of Manhattan's Lower East Side, escapes the heat by dousing himself with water flowing down the street from an open fire hydrant in New York, Saturday, July 24, 2010. (AP Photo/David Goldman)AP - Another wave of oppressive heat clamped down on a broad swath of Eastern states on Saturday, with temperatures in the high 90s and 100s and residents scrambling for shade or just staying indoors.


Posted on 25 July 2010 | 6:51 am

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Floods close Chicago interstate, damage Iowa dam (AP)

Bystanders watch the water rise on Saturday, July 24, 2010, after the Maquoketa River flooded downtown Manchester, Iowa, due to heavy rainfall spanning the past 48 hours. (AP Photo/Telegraph Herald, Mike Burley) MAGS OUT; TV OUT; MANDATORY CREDITAP - Standing water on Chicago-area expressways turned what should have been an easy Saturday morning drive into a soggy, snarled mess after heavy rains across the Midwest closed roads, stranded residents and punched a hole through an Iowa dam.


Posted on 25 July 2010 | 6:50 am

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Floods and landslide in Indonesia kill 21: official (AFP)

Residents ride a boat in Sudan village in Sampit, Indonesia, on July 23. At least 21 people have been killed in floods and a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Indonesia, an official said.(AFP/File/Cahyadi)AFP - At least 21 people have been killed in floods and a landslide triggered by heavy rains in Indonesia, an official said Sunday.


Posted on 25 July 2010 | 4:54 am

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Floods and landslides kill 10 in Vietnam: govt (AFP)

Flooding and landslides caused by heavy rain have killed at least 10 people in Vietnam's northern mountainous provinces near China, the government said Sunday. The biggest death toll of five came in Ha Giang province, where people were buried in their homes or swept away in floods, the Hanoi-based national flood and storm control department said in an online statement.(AFP/File/Hoang Dinh Nam)AFP - Flooding and landslides caused by heavy rain have killed at least 10 people in Vietnam's northern mountainous provinces near China, the government said Sunday.


Posted on 25 July 2010 | 12:18 am

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Bonnie fades but disrupts Gulf oil output (Reuters)

Reuters - The remnants of Tropical Storm Bonnie dissipated over the Gulf of Mexico on Saturday after the mere threat of the storm took a big bite out of production in the Gulf oil patch.

Posted on 24 July 2010 | 6:47 pm

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