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Severe Tropical Storm Nalgae slammed into the Philippines on Oct. 29, after unleashing flash floods and landslides that left at least 45 people dead according to a sharply revised official tally.

A powerful typhoon left at least four people dead and eight missing as it crossed the Philippine archipelago on Dec. 26, spoiling the Christmas holidays with strong winds, heavy rains and destructive flooding.

Thousands of residents were loaded onto military trucks in the Philippines on Dec. 25 as they fled from the path of a powerful typhoon barreling towards the disaster-prone archipelago.  

A Philippine provincial newspaper publisher has been shot dead after writing a column alleging official negligence over a recently discovered methamphetamine laboratory, in the first killing of a journalist during the country's war on drugs.