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Tornado strikes Poland

Yesterday we had a hail storm with hail as big as eggs and around 30 KM from where I live there was a twister. Not just a small twister, it was huge. It leveled 100 houses on its way and cars were flying in the air all around. This kind of twisters NEVER happened in Poland before. It was like the ones from Oklahoma. Luckily no one was killed, but the damage is enormous.

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Earthquakes rattle Brazil and Argentina

Two strong earthquakes struck deep below ground in remote areas of South America on Saturday. There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.

A magnitude-6.1 temblor hit Brazil in the western Amazon state of Acre at about 9:30 a.m., 105 miles southeast of Cruzeiro do Sul, according to the Web site of the U.S. Geological Survey.

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Dead Whale Found With Car-Size Tongue

A humpback whale with a tongue swollen to the size of a small car has been found on the rocky shores of Admiralty Island in southeast Alaska.

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Scientists believe that a collision forced air into the male humpback's tongue and caused it to swell. A ship could be responsible for the death of the 40-foot (12-meter) whale, which was found last week.

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Vietnam: Heatwave continues to parch northern, central regions

A fierce heatwave that has scorched the northern and central regions since the beginning of this month will continue over the next several days, the Central Hydro-meteorology Forecast Centre has warned.

Temperatures will remain at between 35-36 degrees Celsius in the northern region for the next three or four days or more and could peak at 38 degrees Celsius in the central region for a week, the centre said.

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UK: Drinking water runs out in flood-hit areas



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The Army have begun taking humanitarian aid to Upton-on-Severn, in Worcestershire, after the area was hit by severe flooding.

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Ohio man tells of Hawaii shark attack

All the way back to shore after an eight-foot tiger shark chomped into his left leg, Harvey Miller thought he might die. "I just remember saying, 'Oh God, not like this, no way,'" Miller said Friday, a day after the gray animal attacked him off Oahu's Bellows Beach.

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Miller, 36, was snorkeling off Bellows Beach along the windward side of Oahu when the attack occurred.

The animal came after the a 36-year-old attorney from Toledo, Ohio, in clear blue waters in an area not known for shark attacks. The last such incident in that area dates back almost 50 years, the state's Shark Task Force said.

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Earthquake destroys more than 2,000 houses in northwest China

An earthquake in a northwest region of China destroyed 2,100 houses and left 8,000 people homeless, Xinhua news agency said Sunday.

The earthquake measuring 5.7 points on the Richter scale rocked northwest China's Xinjiang Yugur autonomous region, on the border with Kazakhstan, Friday.

According to Xinhua, no casualties have yet been reported in the quake.

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Southeast Europe sizzles, north hit by storms, tornado

BUCHAREST - Temperatures across central and southwest Europe threatened to top 42 degrees Celsius (107 Fahrenheit) on Saturday in a heat wave that has killed nine people in Romania and caused havoc from Hungary to Greece.

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Report: Record storms kill 152 in China

Record rainfall this week triggered floods, landslides and mud flows that killed 152 people in China and forced the evacuation of hundreds of thousands, state media reported Sunday.

Since the start of the annual rainy season in June, floods have hit nearly half of China's regions and killed at least 400 people, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

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Texas flooding strands passenger train

KNIPPA, Texas - Storms dumped more than a foot of rain on parts of Texas on Saturday, stranding more than 170 passengers on an Amtrak train for hours and forcing rescue crews elsewhere to pull at least 50 people to safety.

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A horse stands in floodwaters Saturday, July 21, 2007, near D'Hanis, Texas, after heavy rains caused the Seco Creek to overflow its banks, flooding the town and closing U.S. Highway 90.