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Airports shut, curfews imposed as Typhoon Noru approaches Vietnam

Vietnam closed airports, announced curfews and urged thousands more people evacuate on Tuesday as intensifying Typhoon Noru barrelled towards the country, two days after causing at least eight deaths and widespread flooding in the Philippines. Hundreds of flights in Vietnam were cancelled and thousands of people started to evacuate their homes in central provinces, in… Read More Airports shut, curfews imposed as Typhoon Noru approaches Vietnam

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Work, classes supended as Typhoon Noru barrels through Philippine island of Luzon

Philippines President Ferdinand Marcos declared suspension of government work and classes for Monday as a category 3 tropical storm barrelled through the main island Luzon after making landfall northeast of the capital Manila. Nearly 8,400 people were pre-emptively evacuated from the path of Typhoon Noru, which further weakened with sustained winds of 175 kilometres (108… Read More Work, classes supended as Typhoon Noru barrels through Philippine island of Luzon

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Philippines’ main Luzon island on high alert as Typhoon Noru approaches

The Philippines’ disaster agency was on high alert on Saturday as an approaching tropical storm intensified into a typhoon which is expected to bring moderate to heavy rainfall and severe winds over a swathe of the main Luzon island. Typhoon Noru, with sustained winds of up to 120 km per hour (75 mph), was expected… Read More Philippines’ main Luzon island on high alert as Typhoon Noru approaches

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Typhoon Noru hits Japanese island with heavy rains and storms

Typhoon Noru raked Japan’s main island of Honshu with heavy rains and strong winds on Tuesday, despite being downgraded to a tropical storm, flooding rivers and prompting the evacuation of thousands at one point, but staying well away from Tokyo. An unusually long-lived storm that was briefly a Category 5 typhoon, Noru battered parts of… Read More Typhoon Noru hits Japanese island with heavy rains and storms

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