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PHILIPPINES

Thousands displaced as typhoon batters

A powerful typhoon wrecked houses, caused towering tidal surges and forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee to emergency shelters as it cut across the northern Philippines on Sunday in the sixth major storm to hit the country in less than a month. Typhoon Man-yi slammed into the eastern island province of Catanduanes on Saturday night. There were no immediate reports of casualties from the typhoon, which was forecast to blow northwestward on Sunday across northern Luzon.