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Severe weather around the world As storms hit home in the United States, here’s a look at other countries that haven taken beating by nature.
June 27, 2012
A cyclist tries to make her way through a flooded road amid heavy rainfall in East Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Peter Morrison
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AP
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June 28, 2012
Children play on a stranded car amid torrential downpours and flash floods in Jarrow, England.
Scott Heppell
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AP
June 27, 2012
Survivors at the scene of a landslide of Bududa, east of the Uganda capital, Kampala. Massive landslides induced by torrential rains destroyed three villages in the mountainous district of Bududa, killing scores of people but possibly hundreds, officials said.
Stephen Wandera
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AP
July 3, 2012
A woman and a girl wade through a flooded street in suburban Malabon, north of Manila. Heavy rains and floods in the Philippines prompted some schools to suspend classes and some government offices to stop work.
Aaron Favila
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AP
June 30, 2012
People ride on a boat with their belongings as they seek shelter in Sylhet, Bangladesh. At least 100 people have died and 250,000 have been left stranded by flash floods and landslides. The low-lying and densely populated country, which is in its wet season, has been battered by downpours.
Andrew Biraj
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Reuters
June 27, 2012
Rescuers search for survivors and bodies after landslides on the outskirts of Chittagong, Bangladesh. Rescuers said the slides, caused by heavy monsoon rains, have killed at least 30 people in southern Bangladesh.
Anrup Titu
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AP
June 29, 2012
A young Indian boy rows a raft made of banana plant as he takes his family to a safer place in the flooded village of Boramari. Raging floodwaters fed by monsoon rains have inundated more than 2,000 villages in northeast India, sweeping away homes and leaving hundreds of thousands of people marooned.
Anupam Nath
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AP
June 29, 2012
Flood-affected villagers take shelter in a school in Boramari village, about 47 miles east of Guahati, India.
Anupam Nath
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AP
June 25, 2012
Part of a highway is blocked by a landslide after heavy rainfall in Ji'an, China. Torrential rain swept Jiangxi province in the past few days, killing at least eight people and affecting more than 700,000.
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June 28, 2012
Rescuers search for victims at a mudslide site in Sichuan province, China. Local authorities said at least three people had been confirmed dead and 38 others were missing.
China Daily
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Reuters
June 26, 2012
The Waldo Canyon wildfire burns as it moves into subdivisions in Colorado Springs.
Galon Wampler
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AP
July 1, 2012
A local resident tries to extinguish a wildfire in Carlet, near Valencia, Spain. The regional government said wildfire has burned almost 96,000 acres of forest.
Alberto Saiz
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AP
July 1, 2012
Lightning illuminates the sky during a heavy thunderstorm near Annaberg-Buchholz, Germany.
Bernd Maerz
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AP
July 2, 2012
Giovanny Alvarez, a letter carrier for the U.S. Postal Service, delivers mail in Washington, D.C. The house was damaged by the powerful storm that swept through the region Friday.
Evan Vucci
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AP
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