Ruined Rice Fields and Broken Rail Lines: Sri Lanka Counts Cost of Cyclone

Officials estimate the damage runs into billions of dollars, a headache for the island nation just recovering from an ...

5 things to know for Dec. 2: Hazardous travel, Immigration crackdown, Venezuela, Asia floods, US health policy

The Department of Homeland Security is preparing to deploy 250 agents in Louisiana this month as part of an immigration operation called “Swamp Sweep.” The deployment comes after two National Guard ...

Snow storm flirts with bomb cyclone status

Meteorologists remain somewhat divided over the Dec. 2 storm's forecast, and whether it could wind up qualifying as a bomb cyclone.

Sri Lanka grapples with trauma, loss after deadly cyclone that killed hundreds

ALAWATHUGODA, Sri Lanka, Dec 2 (Reuters) - Nawaz Nashra recalls grabbing her three-year-old daughter, wrapping her in a ...

Death and devastation: Why a rare equatorial cyclone and other storms have hit southern Asia so hard

More than 900 people are dead, thousands more missing and millions affected by a band of cyclones and extreme monsoonal ...
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LPA likely to develop into cyclone named Wilma

The low pressure area (LPA) outside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR) has a high potential to develop into a ...

Sri Lanka ‘a Disaster Zone,’ as Cyclone Deaths Surpass 350

The country’s president said the nationwide flooding after the storm hit last week was the most challenging natural disaster ...