OKLAHOMA CITY,
December 27, 2012
A powerful winter storm system pounded the American heartland before barrelling into the Northeast, where residents faced high winds and heavy snow that disrupted holiday travel, knocked out power...
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November 2, 2012
Survivors of MT Pratibha Cauvery that ran aground on Wednesday said the decision to abandon ship was taken by the captain, Carl Fernades: "It was not planned, it was done in panic. We had to obey the master’s (captain) orders because we are bound by international shipping rules. The ship was to go to the dry dock for repairs, but we did not receive any orders from the owner."
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NEW YORK,
October 31, 2012
Two of the biggest airports serving New York John F. Kennedy and Newark Liberty International have reopened. The first passenger flight to JFK arrived from Long Beach, California, at 7-0...
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NEW YORK,
October 31, 2012
The misery of superstorm Sandy’s devastation grew Tuesday as millions along the U.S. East Coast faced life without power or mass transit for days, and huge swaths of New York City remained eerily...
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New York,
October 30, 2012
Hurricane Sandy grounded well over 10,000 flights across the Northeast and the globe and it could be days before some passengers can get where they’re going.
According to the flight-track...
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NEW YORK,
October 29, 2012
Forecasters warned that the New York City region could face the worst of Hurricane Sandy as it bore down on the U.S. East Coast’s largest cities on Monday, forcing the shutdown of financial market...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti,
October 28, 2012
As Americans brace for Hurricane Sandy, the Caribbean is still suffering.
Officials say storm-related death toll has risen to 65 as of early Sunday. Haitian authorities have reported 51 o...
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Houston,
August 29, 2012
Hurricane Isaac made landfall in the US state of Louisiana, bringing high winds, soaking rains and posing the first test for the costly flood-protection system built after the devastation of Hurri...
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Beijing,
August 4, 2012
Flooding triggered by two typhoons left six people dead and six missing in China, state media reported on Saturday.Typhoons Damrey and Saola made landfall in China within hours of each other...
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MANILA,
July 30, 2012
A tropical storm roughed up seas and dumped torrents of monsoon rain as it swept past the Philippines, leaving at least three people dead, knocking out power and forcing many offices and schools t...
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November 2, 2012
Many ships have run aground along the Chennai Coast during previous cyclones. Some have even split into two. But a spectacle that remains etched in the collective memory of the city is the sight of the half-submerged Stematis, a cargo ship flying the Liberian flag, which hit the shores of Marina beach on Nov 3, 1966, and remained as wreckage till the 1990s.
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WASHINGTON,
October 31, 2012
President Barack Obama, locked in a tight re-election bid, is emphasizing his incumbent’s role for a third straight day, skipping campaign events in battleground states to visit victims of superst...
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NEW YORK,
October 31, 2012
People in the heavily populated U.S. East Coast corridor battered by superstorm Sandy took the first cautious steps to reclaim their upended daily routines, even as rescuers combed neighborhoods s...
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WASHINGTON,
October 30, 2012
With one week left the storm will dominate the news and distract a nation of voters
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NEW DELHI,
October 29, 2012
With Hurricane Sandy set to hit the United States east coast soon (by Monday night local time), Jet Airways and Air India have grounded their flights to New York and Newark indefinitely.
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New Delhi,
October 29, 2012
Jet Airways on Monday cancelled its flights to Newark and Air India “indefinitely delayed” those to New York and Newark due to Hurricane Sandy which is set to hit the East Coast of the United Stat...
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SHIP BOTTOM New Jersey,
October 28, 2012
Governors from North Carolina to Connecticut declared states of emergency and Delaware ordered mandatory evacuations for coastal communities as Hurricane Sandy lumbered north from the Caribbean wh...
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NEW ORLEANS,
August 28, 2012
The centre of tropical storm Isaac’s projected path took it directly toward New Orleans for a projected landfall as early as Tuesday night, nearly seven years to the day after Hurricane Katrina de...
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August 3, 2012
The death toll from Typhoon Saola rose on Friday to 44 in the Philippines and Taiwan as storms and Typhoon Damrey made landfall in China, where two died and about 770,000 were evacuated.The...
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PUERTO VALLARTA,
May 26, 2012
Bud weakened to a tropical storm on Friday as heavy rain began to pelt a string of laid-back beach resorts and small mountain villages on Mexico’s Pacific coast south of Puerto Vallarta.The...
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