Cayman Islanders flee to rooftops
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Cayman Islanders clambered onto rooftops and kitchen tables Sunday to escape surging the floodwaters of Hurricane Ivan. A monster storm packing 150 mph (240 kph) winds
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Thousands of residents of coastal Sri Lanka, both in the south and east, began to flee inland again on Thursday, following the news that there were fresh tremors off the Andaman and Nicobar Islands further east.
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Evacuees began to flee before dawn, shelters opened and residents and emergency workers hustled to prepare for the region&#39;s first Category 3 hurricane in more than half a century.
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Two people die as Hurricane Ivan wreaks havoc across Jamaica and heads for the Cayman Islands and Cuba.
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Authorities have evacuated dozens of the world's most primitive people from their tsunami-hit homelands in the Andaman and Nicobar islands, potentially exposing them to unwelcome outside influence.
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After killing at least 49 people in Grenada and Jamaica, Hurricane Ivan blasted the Cayman Islands on Sunday as it continued on a rampage that threatened to hit Cuba and the western sections of storm-weary Florida in the coming days.
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SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic  - Residents of  a town climbed onto rooftops and into trees on Friday to escape  floods from Tropical Storm Jeanne, which has killed five  people, swept away houses and forced 22,000 people to flee  their homes in the Dominican Republic, authorities said.
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Islanders scrambled to put up storm shutters and buy water as hurricane Ivan churned toward Barbados just days after hurricane Frances tore across the Caribbean and through Florida.
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Scores of exhausted residents crowded onto ferries yesterday to escape villages ravaged by flash floods and landslides and to search for food and medicines after back-to-back storms left more than 1,100 people either dead or missing.
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Hurricane Ivan has battered the Cayman Islands with ferocious 240kph winds, flooding homes, ripping off roofs and toppling trees three stories tall as its powerful eye thundered past just offshore.
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Police evacuated a building in Jersey  City, N.J., which has some financial companies as tenants,  after a bomb threat was called in to a tenant, Jersey City  police said on Wednesday.
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Hurricane Ivan strengthened to a rare Category five storm capable of catastrophic damage as it left Jamaica and aimed for the Cayman Islands.
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Hurricane Ivan, with winds near 150 mph, moved toward western Cuba after ripping roofs from buildings and shutting down power in Grand Cayman.
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Tourists and residents were told Thursday to evacuate the Florida Keys because the powerful Hurricane Ivan could hit the island chain by Sunday.
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One of the Caribbean's most powerful storms ever gathers strength as it leaves the Cayman Islands for Cuba.
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Cubans today evacuated their homes and waited for Hurricane Ivan, which has gained strength, to hit the island with 260kmph (160mph) winds and a storm surge of up to 7.5 metres (25 feet).
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This was another huge weekend for Africans in the Canaries. More than 7,000 illegal immigrants from Africa clambered ashore these islands last year, mostly on Fuerteventura which is the closest of them to the ...