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Tropical storm sloshes ashore in Mexico
Tropical Storm Hermine slams into Mexico's northern Gulf Coast near the U.S. border, lashing Mexico and southern Texas with heavy rains that authorities warned could cause flash flooding.

In wake of Earl, U.S. eyes other potential storms
The remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston look very likely to strengthen again as a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic and could threaten the Caribbean's Leeward Islands in coming days.

Dozens killed, missing in Guatemala landslides

People stand in front of a bus partially covered by a landslide caused by heavy rains on the Pan-American highway at Tecpan, Guatemala, on Saturday. Torrential rains from a tropical depression caused landslides that have killed at least 38 people in Guatemala — some of them rescuers who had come to save people already trapped by a wall of mud.


Earl delivers fatal punch in Nova Scotia

A vehicle navigates around a downed tree on highway 103 near Shelburne, Nova Scotia, on Saturday as the storm arrives.After disrupting Labor Day weekend plans  millions, Earl makes a blustery landfall Saturday morning in Canada's Nova Scotia province, where one man died.


Storm off Mozambique kills 15 fishermen
Mozambican authorities say five fishing boats have capsized in a storm off the country's central coast, killing at least 15 fishermen.

Video: View 3-day U.S. forecast

Three-day forecast for the entire US, updated each morning and afternoon. (Other)Three-day forecast for the entire US, updated each morning and afternoon. (Other)


In wake of Earl, U.S. eyes other potential storms
The remnants of Tropical Storm Gaston look very likely to strengthen again as a tropical cyclone in the Atlantic and could threaten the Caribbean's Leeward Islands in coming days on a westward track, U.S. forecasters said on Sunday.

Amazon may be headed for another bad drought
Drought has cut Peru's Amazon River to its lowest level in 40 years and it is already below the minimum set in 2005, when a devastating dry spell damaged vast swaths of South American rainforest in the worst drought in decades.

Many desperate Pakistanis still wait for flood aid

A Pakistani family displaced by floods prepares to cross a flooded road as the rain falls,  in Shah Jamal village, Muzaffargarh district, Punjab Province, Pakistan, Saturday Sept. 4, 2010. More than 3 million people have yet to receive desperately needed food aid, according to the U.N., and the Pakistani government says nearly 1 million people have received no help of any sort. (AP Photo/Aaron Favila)Abdul Rehman and his family live under a tree next to a pile of rubble on a newly created island where his house used to be.


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