Death Toll

The radical revision has also been attributed to poor communication among officials.

"With the tsunami, we can only pray humbly and not celebrate much for this year's Christmas," Pastor Rusman Anita Sitorus said.

Rescue workers are still battling to reach the hardest-hit areas of Saturday's disaster.

Cal Fire said California's Camp Fire is nearing full containment as search and recovery efforts continue amid the wet, ashy mud.

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The girl's family survived the cyclone by hiding in their home next to the hut.

Firefighters continue to battle the Camp Fire in Butte County, California, and full containment is not expected until the end of November.

Camp Fire latest: More than 10,300 residences and 410 businesses have been destroyed. Thousands of firefighters have been deployed to the scene, where 14,500 structures are still at risk.

Full containment is not expected until November 30.

As of Thursday evening, over 600 people were on a list of people who were missing or unaccounted for.

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At least 10 people have lost their lives and 130 people are estimated injured, officials said.

A particular horror in several areas in and around Palu was liquefaction, which happens when soil shaken by an earthquake behaves like a liquid.

The country music industry will observe a moment of silence for those killed during the Las Vegas shooting.

The confirmed death toll seems certain to rise as rescuers reached outlying communities hit by a 7.5-magnitude earthquake and subsequent tsunami.

Hurricane Florence swept across North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, causing widespread death and destruction.

President Donald Trump says the death toll in Puerto Rico rose "like magic" after Hurricane Maria struck.

Trump politicizing the Puerto Rico hurricane death toll "is incredibly distasteful," a Fox News co-host said.

The former vice president to Barack Obama spoke sarcastically after President Donald Trump's refusal to believe the new official death toll from the Puerto Rican government.

Nearly 3,000 people are believed to have died from hurricane-related causes in the months after Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico.

"The governor is an excellent guy and he's really happy with the job we've done," Trump said of Puerto Rico.

"All the hotel guests were running, so I did too. People filled the streets," Michelle Lindsay, an Australian tourist, said. "A lot of officials were urging people not to panic."

At least 50 people have been killed as wildfires rage through villages near Athens, with huge flames trapping families with children as they fled.

Rescuers in Japan are digging through mud and rubble, racing to find survivors after torrential rain unleashed floods and landslides that killed at least 112 people, with around 78 still missing.

The death toll from the volcano has risen, and many more are believed to be missing and buried under the ash.

In 2014-2016, Ebola killed more than 11,000 people.

The official death count from the government is 64.

"This is a tragic reminder of the dangerous work that our firefighters do every day."

The suspected gunman in a California shooting that left four dead and multiple injured was a white male who had threatened women before and was set to face trial for stabbing and robbing women in the community.

In hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, American citizens are growing ill and bacteria outbreaks are spiking as people use dirty water contaminated by urine and hazardous waste for drinking and bathing.