Category: Asia

Pakistan food prices soar

ISLAMABAD -- Pakistanis grappled with skyrocketing fruit and vegetable prices Sunday caused by floods that have destroyed more than

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China landslides, 127 dead thousands missing

BEIJING – Rubble-strewn floodwaters tore through a remote corner of northwestern China on Sunday, smashing buildings, overturning cars and

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Floods hit North Korea

SEOUL (AFP) – Floods caused by torrential rain have washed away homes, roads, railways and farmland in North Korea,

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Floods kill 132 in Kashmir, hundreds missing

LEH, India (AFP) – Rescuers waded through mud to seek survivors Saturday after floods caused by freak rains killed

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Toxic smog blankets Moscow as fires rage

Wearing sanitary masks or clutching wet rags to their faces, residents of Moscow struggled round the city as the

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Russia: Fires head for Chernobyl

Fires that are sweeping across Russia threaten to re-release nuclear contamination from the Chernobyl disaster into the air, but

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Pakistan appeals for help over ‘worst floods of its history’

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has appealled for immediate international help as the country battles the "worst floods

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Pakistan storms ground relief choppers

SUKKUR, Pakistan – Stormy weather grounded helicopters carrying emergency supplies to Pakistan's flood-ravaged northwest Friday as the worst monsoon

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Pakistan floods hit four million – Huge evacuation under way

KARACHI (AFP) – Pakistan began evacuating half a million people from flood-risk areas in the south on Thursday as

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Pakistan flood refugees speak out

Video Report: As many thousands of refugees set up make shift camps, there is a call for aid and

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