MANILA — Typhoon Hagupit weakened Sunday after slamming into the Philippines, killing at least two people and knocking out power, but causing far less damage than feared after last year’s devastation from […]
MANILA — Typhoon Hagupit made its first landfall late Saturday in the eastern Philippines, where more than 650,000 people have fled to safety. The strong storm comes barely one year after Super […]
MANILA — Six months after the most powerful typhoon ever recorded tore through the Philippines, killing more than 6,000 people and throwing into disarray millions of lives, life is getting better. But […]
MANILA — Three months after Typhoon Haiyan ravaged the Philippines, some restaurants have reopened, and basic services such as water and electricity that had been wiped out by the storm have returned […]
MANILA — Despite a massive mobilization of assistance from countries around the world, a representative for a U.N. relief agency says emergency aid remains “in the red” in the Philippines one month […]
MANILA, Philippines — An international aid effort that included helicopter drops from the aircraft carrier USS George Washington ferried food and water to areas that have seen little of either since a […]
Four people caught in Typhoon Haiyan in recall the horror, the fear, the fight for survival brought about by Typhoon Haiyan. A GRANDMOTHER’S LOSS Narcissa Abordo, a 65-year-old grandmother from Tacloban, awoke […]
MANILA — Hundreds of injured people, pregnant women, children and the elderly have been crowding into a small building behind the control tower of this city’s airport, one of the few places […]
MANILA — Typhoon-ravaged Philippine islands faced a huge relief effort Monday as bodies lay in the streets and survivors pleaded for food, water and medicine. Police guarded stores to prevent people from […]
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