Typhoon Hagupit is sweeping across the eastern Philippines, toppling trees and power lines and threatening coastal areas with a powerful sea-surge.
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A powerful typhoon battered Tokyo Monday, disrupting transport, after lashing western and southern Japan, leaving two dead and three missing.
Typhoon Phanfone made landfall at...
?killed eight people and displaced nearly 18,000 people as it battered the northern Philippines on the weekend, the national disaster relief agency said Monday.
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Voicing concern that the Philippines? post-typhoon reconstruction and recovery efforts could be undermined by its heavy debt load, a United Nations independent human rights...