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Bush pledges swift aid to hurricane-hit Texas
United States President George Bush pledged swift federal aid for millions of storm-struck Texans on Tuesday.
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Texas rushes Ike relief as health crisis looms
Texas officials warned on Monday of a possible health crisis and urged thousands to leave the island city of Galveston.
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Hurricane Ike sparks biggest Texas rescue
Rescue teams scoured rubble and searched homes on Sunday in a huge rescue effort after Hurricane Ike cut a swathe of destruction through Texas.
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Hurricane Ike strikes at heart of Texas oil wealth
Hurricane Ike slammed into the most populated part of the Texas coast on Saturday with ferocious winds and a wall of water that flooded seaside towns.
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Hurricane Ike ravages Texas with massive flooding
Hurricane Ike powered across the densely populated Texas coast and through Houston on Saturday, bringing ferocious winds and a wall of water.
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Hurricane Ike slams into Texas coast
Hurricane Ike barrelled into the densely populated Texas coast near Houston early on Saturday, bringing with it a wall of water and ferocious winds.
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Hurricane Ike menaces vulnerable Texas coast
Hurricane Ike roared towards the Texas coast on Friday, threatening to drive a 6m wall of water into coastal communities and menacing Houston.
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Hurricane Ike threatens Texas with wall of water
Hurricane Ike on Friday moved within 24 hours of striking the densely populated Texas coast near Houston with a possible 6m wall of water.
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Oil back above $101, awaits Hurricane Ike
Oil held above a barrel on Friday, underpinned by Hurricane Ike which could threaten to disrupt production in the United States.
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Gulf residents face ‘certain death’ from Ike
Hundreds of thousands of people on Thursday fled Houston, Texas, as officials warned that those who stay behind "face certain death".
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Hurricane Ike takes aim at Texas
Hurricane Ike gathered strength as it churned through the Gulf of Mexico’s warm waters on Wednesday on a track towardsTexas.
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Hurricane Ike over Gulf of Mexico, targets Texas
Hurricane Ike swirled over the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday, targeting Texas near the US offshore oil patch after toppling decrepit buildings in Havana.
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Hurricane Ike takes aim at western Cuba
A weakened Hurricane Ike swept toward western Cuba on Monday after it ripped a wide swath of destruction through the eastern side of the island.
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Havana on maximum alert as hurricane draws near
Cuba raised its hurricane alert level to maximum on Monday for Havana as deadly Hurricane Ike raged westward across the island.
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Ike slams Cuba, Haiti death toll passes 600
Hurricane Ike raged over Cuba early on Monday, pummelling the island with gale force winds and rain after killing dozens in beleaguered Haiti.
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Hundreds of thousands flee hurricane in Cuba
Barely a week after Hurricane Gustav devastated western Cuba, the island was battening down the hatches again on Sunday for another killer storm.
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Ferocious Hurricane Ike threatens Cuba, Gulf
Hurricane Ike barrelled toward Cuba as an extremely dangerous category-four storm on Sunday.
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Now Hurricane Ike targets Gulf of Mexico
Fierce Hurricane Ike weakens slightly as Tropical Storm Hanna buffets the Carolinas after killing at least 529 people in Haiti.
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Haiti drowns as another fierce storm looms
Corpses surfaced in the sodden Haitian city of Gonaives on Friday following Tropical Storm Hanna — as fierce Hurricane Ike neared from the Atlantic.
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Storm-hit Haitians starve on rooftops
Haiti was reeling on Thursday night from a series of tropical storms which devastated crops and left bodies floating in flooded towns.
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Ike grows to category-four hurricane, Hanna strengthens
Hurricane Ike strengthened rapidly into an extremely dangerous category-four hurricane in the open Atlantic on Wednesday.
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Storms swirl in Atlantic, deadly floods hit Haiti
Heavy rains flooded parts of Haiti with head-high water on Tuesday and sent walls of mud down the hillsides, killing at least 25 people.
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No calm after the storm for Louisiana’s evacuees
Authorities on the US Gulf Coast were on Tuesday struggling to orchestrate the orderly return of nearly two million evacuees to New Orleans.
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Oil prices tumble below $105
Oil prices dived under $105 on Tuesday, reaching four-month lows, after Hurricane Gustav apparently spared key United States energy facilities.
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New Orleans levees hold as Hurricane Gustav weakens
Hurricane Gustav slammed ashore on the US Gulf Coast near New Orleans on Monday but rebuilt levees appeared to hold floodwaters out of the city.
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Weakened Hurricane Gustav hits US Gulf Coast
Hurricane Gustav roared ashore on the US Gulf Coast on Monday, lashing New Orleans with winds and rain but sparing the city its full force.
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Gustav pounds Louisiana coast
Hurricane Gustav lashed Louisiana on Monday with pounding rain and heavy winds, posing the biggest threat since the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.
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Oil gains over $1 as Gustav shuts US output
Oil prices rose more than $1 on Monday after energy firms in the US Gulf shut down nearly all offshore oil output ahead of Hurricane Gustav.
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Gustav overshadows McCain’s show
Republicans open their convention on Monday to nominate presidential candidate John McCain with no pomp and little politics.
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New Orleans evacuates for ‘big, ugly storm’
Thousands of people in New Orleans and across the US Gulf Coast fled their homes on Sunday as Hurricane Gustav barreled through the Gulf of Mexico.
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Gustav enters Gulf after slamming Cuba
Ferocious Hurricane Gustav moved into the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico on Saturday where it was expected to strengthen and threaten New Orleans.
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Gustav strengthens en route to Cuba
Hurricane Gustav roared toward western Cuba on Saturday with 205km/h winds on its way to the Gulf of Mexico after a deadly pass through the Caribbean.