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 […]
Powerful typhoon slams into eastern Philippines
Typhoon Haiyan: The man and the boy who saved each other
When typhoon Haiyan hit the Philippines a year ago and sea waters submerged parts of the city of Tacloban, one man grabbed a piece of wood – and floated into a tree […]
Recovery from Typhoon Haiyan
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 […]
Searching for loved ones in typhoon’s devastation
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 Haiyan stories of fear, the fight for survival
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 […]
Desperation grows among Philippine survivors of Typhoon Haiyan
MANILA — Drenched by rain and increasingly desperate, typhoon-stricken Filipinos rushed fences and pleaded with guards Tuesday at the battered airport serving as a tenuous lifeline to an international aid effort confronted […]
Philippine typhoon: Tales of heartbreak, courage; hunger, anarchy
MANILA — Each story is more heartbreaking than the last; tales of the courage and good fortune it took to survive amid utter destruction, balanced in many cases by the last glimpse […]
“Philippines typhoon eyewitness: ‘There was death everywhere’
Philippines typhoon eyewitness: ‘There was death everywhere’ Click To View Photos MANILA — When Danny Larsen arrived in the Philippines city of Tacloban less than a week ago, he found it to […]
Typhoon Haiyan- Eyewitness
MANILA — When Danny Larsen arrived in the Philippines city of Tacloban less than a week ago, he found it to be “a lovely town — very local, not many foreigners. We […]
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