IMPACT: Potential mudslides caused 1,785 people to evacuate their homes in mountain villages, while one person died and another was injured while driving
By Shelley Shan
Typhoon Sepat lashed the country with strong winds and torrential rain yesterday, cutting power to nearly 95,000 homes, injuring twenty four people and forcing more than 1,000 others to evacuate.

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TOUGH 'MISSION': The DPP's vice presidential running mate said
By Flora Wang
Former premier Su Tseng-chang (蘇貞昌) returned to Taiwan early yesterday morning to a greeting by the Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) presidential candidate Frank Hsieh (謝長廷) and members of Hsieh's campaign team at Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport.

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Rescuers battled yesterday to reach more than 170 miners trapped underground by flash flooding in eastern China, but officials warned the men had little chance of survival.

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Texans battled rain and flooding from the remnants of Tropical Storm Erin as Gulf Coast residents cast a wary eye toward powerful Hurricane Dean, which strengthened as it made its way through the Caribbean.

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Peruvian President Alan Garcia called for the orderly distribution of emergency supplies as desperate victims of a large earthquake on Peru's southern coast looted markets and blocked arriving aid trucks.

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