Landslides kill 20 in Philippine provinces weakened by typhoon Usagi

Torrential monsoon rains have hit the north-west Philippines, triggering landslides and killing 20 people in areas already weakened by a powerful typhoon, and raising the death toll to 47 from storms...

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Typhoon Usagi kills 25 in south China

A powerful typhoon hit Hong Kong and the southern China coast on Monday with winds that blew cars off the road, crippling power lines and causing flooding and the deaths of at least 25 people. Typhoon...

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U.S. migrants' DNA could help ID missing Guatemalans

Aracely Garrido returned to her native Guatemala last month to bury one of 13 family members who disappeared during the country's decades-long civil war and was identified years later through DNA from...

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Bodies pile up in Texas as immigrants adopt new routes over border

By the time the woman perished, she had probably slogged 25 miles through dry ranch lands in her quest to enter the United States. She was found just feet from a highway where she might have been picked...

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Mexico landslides: Rescuers dig in mud and rain for dead

Fourteen hours per body. That's how long search crews with shovels, hydraulic equipment, anything they can muster, are averaging to find the victims of a massive landslide that took half the remote...

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