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World News tagged with floods

NKorea Sends Excuse to SKorea Over Deadly Flood
World  (tags: north korea, South Korea, violence, death, floods )

Lone
- 79 days ago - mail.com
North Korea told South Korea on Monday its surprise release of dammed river water that left three people dead and three missing in the South was an emergency measure, but it stopped short of a direct apology.
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Floods Transform Lake Eyre - Australia
World  (tags: australia, sa, south australia, lake eyre, salt water, floods, queensland, birds, wildlife )

Chrissy
- 190 days ago - abc.net.au
Queensland's summer floods have transformed parts of the outback landscape, enticing huge bird colonies to Lake Eyre in outback SA. This is a phenomenon that only occurs every 10 years or so .....
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At Stake Are More Than Banks
World  (tags: world, Africa, Asia, Latin America, economy, rich, entitlemen, plutocrats, corporations, business, bailouts, poor, greed, poverty, g-20, leaders, famine, floods, starvation, women, children, hunger, mortality, suffering, death )

Tom
- 236 days ago - nytimes.com
The 500 richest people in the world earned more than the 416 million poorest people. The first group bears responsibility for the global economic mess but will be just fine; the latter group has no responsibility and will suffer the worst consequences.
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Southern Africa: Food Insecurity Looms As Floods Swallow Crops
World  (tags: world, africa, food, crops, nature, floods, rain, environment, climate, humans, suffering, endangered )

Tom
- 246 days ago - allafrica.com
Johannesburg -- As the water level in the upper Zambezi River continues to climb past its highest levels ever, destroying crops and road networks, disaster officials in Namibia and Zambia have warned that food security could worsen.
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Torrential Rain a 'Mixed Blessing' for Australia - Australia
World  (tags: australia, rain, floods, flooding, drought, good news, lake eyre, queensland, NSW )

Chrissy
- 280 days ago - abc.net.au
As torrential rain continues to fall across parts of Australia, the rivers, lakes and estuaries from the far north to the back of Bourke are about to spring to life. Some of the rain that has caused floods in parts of New South Wales will flow out to sea.
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Floods Better Than Drought: Farming Group - Queensland, Australia
World  (tags: australia, queensland, farmers, drought, floods, flooding, farming, natural disaster )

Chrissy
- 281 days ago - brisbanetimes.com.au
Gulf of Carpentaria cattle farmers would prefer the floods than the severe drought that has parched the region for many years, a leading farming group has said. Thousands of cattle are expected to have died during the floods, which have cut-off roads and
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Thousands of Starving and Stranded Animals in Bolivia Need Your Help! - World Society for the Protection of Animals
World  (tags: bolivia, floods, animals, disasters )

Maryann
- 614 days ago - wspa-usa.org
Thousands of starving and stranded animals in Bolivia need your help! 8,000 cats and dogs in urgent need of food and veterinary care, 500,000 cows at risk of starvation and disease, animals with no food or water cut off by flood-ravaged land
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Emerald on Flood Alert as Dam Overflows - Australia
World  (tags: australia, emerald, dam, floods, overfolowing, water, good news )

Chrissy
- 675 days ago - abc.net.au
While levees hold back floodwater from inundating the south-west Queensland town of Charleville, another flood threat is emerging at Emerald, west of Rockhampton. The Fairbairn Dam which supplies water to Emerald has filled to capacity, and water is
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Rain Run-Off Reaches Dams - Queensland/Australia
World  (tags: australia, queensland, rain, rivers, floods, dams, good news )

Chrissy
- 678 days ago - news.com.au
BRISBANE'S Somerset Dam is creeping closer to 60 per cent of capacity, the highest it has been since 2004. It was at 56.4 per cent yesterday, with the Stanley River rising at Peachester. Since New Year's Day, Somerset, Wivenhoe and North Pine have harvest
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Rainfall Could Smash Records - Australia
World  (tags: australia, weather, queensland, floods, flooding, records, monsoon )

Chrissy
- 680 days ago - news.com.au
BRISBANE has already exceeded its average January rainfall in the first two weeks of the month - as north Queensland continues to faces severe floods. Locals in Airlie Beach in the Whitsundays are bracing for yet more heavy rain today after the monsoon
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Queenslanders on Evacuation Alert - Australia
World  (tags: australia, queensland, rivers, rain, floods, flooding, weather )

Chrissy
- 690 days ago - news.com.au
SOUTHEAST Queensland is experiencing its worst floods in about 20 years and with rivers across the region yet to peak residents are on evacuation alert tonight. While much of the rain brought on by a massive low pressure system over the last week has
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Natural Disaster Declared in NSW - Australia
World  (tags: australia, nsw, new south wales, emergency, natural disaster, floods, flooding )

Chrissy
- 690 days ago - news.com.au
PARTS of the New South Wales north coast have been declared natural disaster areas after heavy rain and severe flooding. NSW Emergency Services Minister Nathan Rees has officially declared the Tweed and Kyogle local government areas natural disaster zones
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Drought-Breaker La Nina Kicks in for Wet Summer - Australia
World  (tags: australia, drought, La nina, rain, murray-darling, rivers, floods, good news )

Chrissy
- 717 days ago - news.com.au
THE drought-breaking La Nina weather pattern has finally kicked in, bringing flooding rains along the eastern coast and filling the tributaries that feed into the dying Murray-Darling river system.
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Relief Reaches All Bangladesh Cyclone-Hit Areas, Donors Pledge Hundreds of Millions in Aid
World  (tags: world, deaths, floods, children, humans, aid, relief, bangladesh, Cyclone )


- 736 days ago - voanews.com
Relief workers in Bangladesh say they have reached the last remaining pockets of the country devastated by last week's cyclone that killed some 3,500 people and displaced millions others. The military is flying helicopters and cargo planes to deliver
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83 Dead in North Korean Floods - UN | NEWS.Com.Au
World  (tags: world, north korea, floods, deaths, homeless )

Chrissy
- 830 days ago - news.com.au
FLOODS in North Korea have killed 83 people, left more than 300,000 homeless, destroyed 58,000 houses and drenched more than 90,000 hectares of farmland, a senior UN official has said.
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