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KABUL, May 26: The death toll from flash floods in a northern Afghan province has hit 50 — most of them women and children — an official said on Saturday, a week after the disaster struck. The floods that inundated Sari Pul province were ...
May 27, 2012 at 03:37 | Source: DAWN Group
SANTIAGO, Chile, May 29 (UPI) -- Thousands of people in Chile were without safe drinking water or power after weekend flooding swamped south-central Chile, killing two people, officials said. Officials said the flooding displaced at least 3,542 ...
May 29, 2012 at 13:14 | Source: United Press International
Thailand has rebounded sharply after last year's floods with the economy growing a huge 11 percent quarter on quarter in the first three months of the year, but the CEO of the country's largest semi-conductor packager Hana Microelectronics is not so ...
May 29, 2012 at 09:25 | Source: CNBC
LANZHOU, China, May 21 (UPI) -- Floods from heavy rainstorms in northwest China killed one villager and left two others missing, officials say. Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, was inundated with floodwater from 10 p.m. Sunday to early ...
May 21, 2012 at 21:16 | Source: United Press International
Why do tornadoes teach us lessons, but not floods? Comparing how communities respond to floods and how they respond to tornadoes offers a contrast in urgency. Perhaps tornadoes, like the one that devastated Joplin and killed 161 people a year ago, get ...
May 29, 2012 at 14:33 | Source: Joplin Globe
There is more financial fallout from the Missouri River flood of 2011.  Some levees breached in the flood have not been repaired, and it appears those who live along the river will have to pay to fix them. One of the damaged levees can be found ...
May 28, 2012 at 16:14 | Source: msnbc.com
At least 21 people have died and scores of others have gone missing after flash floods triggered by torrential rains destroyed thousands of homes in two provinces in northern Afghanistan, officials have said. It was reported on Sunday that the ...
May 20, 2012 at 15:48 | Source: Aljazeera.com
Thousands are without power after downpours, lightning and floods swept the WLKY viewing area Tuesday morning. A Memorial Day weekend heat wave ended with a severe storm, causing downpours and flash floods. Crews at Metro Animal Services raced to drain ...
May 29, 2012 at 19:48 | Source: msnbc.com
Hundreds of Queensland women involved in last year's floods are at the centre of an international study into the effects of prenatal stress on babies. Professor Suzanne King, of Canada's McGill University, is leading a team who took blood samples from 140 ...
May 18, 2012 at 00:20 | Source: ninemsn
A winery in southern Queensland is counting the cost of the most recent record floods, with significant losses of younger vines. Riversands Vineyards in St George had floodwater covering most of its plants, but found it was the newly planted varieties that ...
May 22, 2012 at 21:44 | Source: ABC Online