TORONTO — After a tempestuous debate, Toronto’s City Council has stripped Mayor Rob Ford of the last of his substantive powers because of multiple scandals, but further ...
Typhoon toll rises
GUIUAN, Philippines — The knock of hammer on nail, the buzz of chain saws, the swish of brooms clearing up debris from wrecked homes and yards: The sou...
BERLIN — Manfred Rommel, the longtime mayor of Stuttgart and only son of Germany’s most famous World War II military commander, has died. He was 84.
The City of Stuttgar...
(TOKYO) — Caroline Kennedy arrived in Japan today to take up her position as U.S. ambassador with one important strength: She has the ear of the American president.
Japa...
Typhoon toll may be 10K
TACLOBAN, Philippines — A city devastated by last week’s typhoon buried some of its dead in a mass grave in a hillside cemetery today, a somber re...
BEIJING — The outpouring of international aid to the Philippines makes China’s contribution for typhoon relief look like a trickle: Several countries and even Swedish fu...
Wall collapse leaves 8 dead
TACLOBAN, Philippines — Mobs overran a rice warehouse on the island worst hit by the Philippine typhoon, setting off a wall collapse that kill...
Typhoon leaves many stranded
TACLOBAN, Philippines — When two Philippine Air Force C-130s arrived at the typhoon-wrecked airport here just after dawn today, more than 3,0...
But it's not where needed
TACLOBAN, Philippines — The day after Typhoon Haiyan struck the eastern Philippine coast, a team of 15 doctors and logistics experts was ready t...
Typhoon Haiyan is feared to have killed more than 10,000 people in the Philippines. Here are the natural disasters in the last decade that had higher death tolls:
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