First post-flood Mass
SOUTH TAPANULI, Indonesia (AFP) — At the Angkola Protestant Church, in the hard-hit South Tapanuli district, in Sumatra, dozens of worshippers sang hymns at a…
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SOUTH TAPANULI, Indonesia (AFP) — At the Angkola Protestant Church, in the hard-hit South Tapanuli district, in Sumatra, dozens of worshippers sang hymns at a…
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Natural disasters caused an estimated $220 billion in global economic damages this year, according to the Swiss Re Institute (SRI). The figure represents a 33…
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The Department of Education (DepEd) on Saturday began releasing year-end incentives to teachers and non-teaching personnel across the country.
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Aceh governor Muzakir Manaf said response teams were still searching for bodies.
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‘This is a cemetery now. We don’t want to live in this village anymore.’
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Banda Aceh (AFP) — Governments and aid groups in Indonesia and Sri Lanka worked Tuesday to rush aid to hundreds of thousands stranded by deadly flooding that…
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PADANG, Indonesia (AFP) — Sri Lanka and Indonesia deployed military personnel on Monday to help victims of devastating flooding that has killed nearly 1,000…
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'Heavy rains upstream are now flooding low-lying areas along the banks of the Kelani River.'
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COLOMBO (AFP ) — Sri Lanka made an appeal for international assistance on Saturday as the death toll from heavy rains and floods triggered by “Cyclone Ditwah”…
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The region’s main morgue said Friday it had no more room to receive bodies.
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COLOMBO (AFP) — Sri Lanka is investigating allegations that two elephants gifted by Thailand have been subjected to cruel treatment at their homes in Buddhist…
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The onslaught of extreme weather is set to continue, with Typhoon ‘Kalmaegi’ forecast to make landfall in the early hours of Friday morning, according to the…
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A rain-swollen mountain river overflowed its banks.
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SAN FERNANDO, Pampanga —Central Luzon is reeling from severe flooding caused by tropical cyclone “Paolo,” with more than 246,000 people across 305 barangays…
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Seven other suspects were cleared during the course of the trial due to lack of evidence.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AFP) — The death toll from deadly flash floods that swept two Indonesian islands, including tourist hotspot Bali, rose to 19 on Thursday,…
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The death toll from deadly flash floods that swept two Indonesian islands, including tourist hotspot Bali, rose to 19 on Thursday, officials said, with five…
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August 30 — flash floods! Quezon City was the hardest hit. PAGASA attributed it to severe thunderstorms that brought abnormally high rainfall across parts of…
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