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"Fani" Means Snake's Hood. Here's How Cyclones Are Named
Cyclone Fani: Mala, Helen, Nargis and Nilofer may sound like the names of yesteryear Bollywood actors, but they are, in fact, lethal cyclones that have brought violent winds, heavy rains and wreaked destruction.
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Sleepless And Swamped in Myanmar's Floods
Every night Aung Myo Tun climbs onto the raised platform where he sleeps with his wife, six children and mother-in-law, listening in growing panic to the sound of water lapping around his house in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta.
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Myanmar Flood Death Toll Tops 100, One Million Affected
The death toll from severe flooding across Myanmar has topped 100, state media reported today, with nearly one million people affected as fears intensify for the country's crucial rice bowl region.
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Rescuers in Myanmar Struggle to Reach Flood-Hit Areas, Toll Seen Rising
A death toll of 27 from flooding across Myanmar was expected to rise as rescue workers struggled on today to reach some of the hardest-hit and most remote inundated areas, officials said.
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Cyclone Mahasen hits Bangladesh, 45 people killed
Cyclone Mahasen weakened by Thursday afternoon into a tropical storm and then dissipated, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed over Bangladesh and spared Myanmar almost entirely, meteorological officials said.
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Myanmar minority resist Cyclone Mahasen evacuation
A cyclone only a day away carries wind and rain that could become deadly. But in dozens of refugee camps that spatter Myanmar's western coast, the order to evacuate ahead of the storm was met with widespread refusal.
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Bangladesh orders evacuation as cyclone nears coast
Bangladesh on Wednesday ordered the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people as forecasters said a cyclonic storm would hit low-lying coastal areas by early Thursday.
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"Fani" Means Snake's Hood. Here's How Cyclones Are Named
Cyclone Fani: Mala, Helen, Nargis and Nilofer may sound like the names of yesteryear Bollywood actors, but they are, in fact, lethal cyclones that have brought violent winds, heavy rains and wreaked destruction.
-
Sleepless And Swamped in Myanmar's Floods
Every night Aung Myo Tun climbs onto the raised platform where he sleeps with his wife, six children and mother-in-law, listening in growing panic to the sound of water lapping around his house in Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta.
-
Myanmar Flood Death Toll Tops 100, One Million Affected
The death toll from severe flooding across Myanmar has topped 100, state media reported today, with nearly one million people affected as fears intensify for the country's crucial rice bowl region.
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Rescuers in Myanmar Struggle to Reach Flood-Hit Areas, Toll Seen Rising
A death toll of 27 from flooding across Myanmar was expected to rise as rescue workers struggled on today to reach some of the hardest-hit and most remote inundated areas, officials said.
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Cyclone Mahasen hits Bangladesh, 45 people killed
Cyclone Mahasen weakened by Thursday afternoon into a tropical storm and then dissipated, causing far less damage than had been feared as it passed over Bangladesh and spared Myanmar almost entirely, meteorological officials said.
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Myanmar minority resist Cyclone Mahasen evacuation
A cyclone only a day away carries wind and rain that could become deadly. But in dozens of refugee camps that spatter Myanmar's western coast, the order to evacuate ahead of the storm was met with widespread refusal.
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Bangladesh orders evacuation as cyclone nears coast
Bangladesh on Wednesday ordered the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people as forecasters said a cyclonic storm would hit low-lying coastal areas by early Thursday.
