The floods ruined tens of thousands of homes and businesses, destroyed rail lines and roads and wiped out crops, mainly along the Elbe River's path from Dresden north to the North Sea.
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Although it is one of the wealthiest islands with hurricane-resistant homes and a sturdy infrastructure, Bermuda hasn't seen a Category 3 hurricane since 1963 when Hurricane Arlene wiped out crops and homes.
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The United Nations Thursday asked members to contribute dlrs 43 million in emergency aid for North Korea, where torrential rains have wiped out crops and left some half a million people homeless.
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While a relentless civil war has shattered Afghanistan's economy, a devastating drought that threatens to worsen this year has broken the backs of farmers, destroyed entire herds and wiped out crops, he said.
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The floods ended a lengthy drought for some regions, but wiped out crops, damaged or destroyed some 1 . 68 million homes and killed about 168, 000 head of livestock, the report said.
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The light plane, a Turbo Thrush, was one of five donated by the United States to help Colombia wipe out crops of coca and poppy, the plants used to make cocaine and heroin.
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That blunts criticism by some that a House measure, known as the Freedom to Farm Act, simply doles out crop subsidies on a fixed but declining scale over seven years, regardless of market prices.
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The number of households affected was 1, 956, whom the local Committee for Disaster Prevention and Preparation provided with tents and plastic sheets, and to whom the NGO Redd Barna handed out crop seeds.
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Turns out that bananas are under attack from diseases and pests, which routinely wipe out crops in developing countries where the fruit is as much a staple as potatoes are in the United States.
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The cheapest way to eradicate narcotics is to destroy them at their source . . . . We need to wipe out crops wherever they are grown and take out labs wherever they exist ."
