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MIAMI - Hurricane Ida strengthened to a Category 2 storm on Sunday, and a hurricane watch was extended to the Florida Panhandle as Ida made its way across the Gulf of Mexico. Full Story »

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Forty people have died in El Salvador following three days of heavy rains, Interior Minister Humberto Centeno said Sunday. Full Story »

SAN SALVADOR (AFP) - Torrential rains caused by Hurricane Ida have killed at least 50 people and left several others missing in El Salvador, civil protection officials said Sunday. Full Story »

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) - At least 42 people have been killed by flooding and mudslides in El Salvador due to heavy rains caused by Hurricane Ida, Interior Minister Humberto Centeno said in a press conference carried by national radio. Full Story »

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador - Interior minister in El Salvador reports 40 dead in flooding following three days of rain. Full Story »

CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) - Hurricane Ida intensified off the Mexican resort of Cancun on Sunday and aimed for the Gulf of Mexico as the storm's heavy rains killed at least 42 people in El Salvador. Full Story »

RATHGAMA, Sri Lanka (AFP) - Raj Rajaratnam, a billionaire financier facing insider trading charges in the United States, is recalled in stone in one of the villages he helped recover from the Asian tsunami in 2004. Full Story »

MIAMI (AFP) - Mexico's government issued a hurricane warning on Saturday as a strengthening tropical storm Ida bore down on the country's Yucatan peninsula. Full Story »

VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico - A week of torrential rain has flooded the homes of more than 200,000 people along Mexico's Gulf coast, officials said Friday. Residents in some towns complained that no help had arrived. Full Story »

MIAMI (AFP) - Hurricane Ida is now a category two storm packing top wind speeds of nearly 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour as it heads towards Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said. Full Story »

MIAMI - Ida has become a tropical storm again, with top winds of 45 mph (72 kph), as it swirls in the Caribbean on a track that could bring it to the U.S. Gulf Coast next week. Full Story »

HANOI (AFP) - At least 13 people have been killed in a landslide in central Vietnam following storms and flooding that have now left almost 130 people dead, according to officials. Full Story »

HANOI, Vietnam - The 69-year-old watchman couldn't swim so when Tropical Storm Mirinae sparked a flash flood he ran, shimmied up a tree and hung on — for three nights and two days. Full Story »

MANAGUA (Reuters) - Hurricane Ida weakened to a tropical depression as it churned through eastern Nicaragua on Thursday after cutting power and ripping roofs on little-developed Caribbean islands. Full Story »

MANAGUA (AFP) - Hurricane Ida unleashed heavy winds and rain on thousands of residents of eastern Nicaragua Thursday, causing flooding and destroying homes, before being downgraded to a tropical storm. Full Story »

MIAMI (AFP) - Ida was downgraded to a tropical storm on Thursday after slamming into Nicaragua as a category one hurricane, the US National Hurricane Center said. Full Story »

MIAMI (AFP) - Hurricane Ida made landfall as a category one storm on the eastern coast of Nicaragua Thursday, the US-based National Hurricane Center said. Full Story »

Nairobi, Kenya - It's been a busy week in Kenya. Torrential rains ended a months-long drought. A new Constitution was drafted. The world's fastest man, Usain Bolt, arrived to adopt the world's fastest mammal, a baby cheetah. Full Story »