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KARO, Indonesia (AP) 鈥� Rescuers in Indonesia recovered 16 bodies under tons of mud and rocks or that were swept away in flash floods that hit mountainside villages on Sumatra Island, officials said Monday.

Tense negotiations over how much wealthy countries will pledge to their counterparts in the fight to limit global warming have overrun their Friday deadline, a holdup Canada's environment minister attributed in part to questionable leadership at the

VANCOUVER 鈥� A new storm system is bearing down on British Columbia and is expected to bring another blast of potentially damaging winds, as the province continues to clean up from this week's powerful bomb cyclone.

The bomb cyclone 鈥� a weather system triggered by a rapid drop in atmospheric pressure 鈥� brought winds as high as 170 km/h on Tuesday. Friday's storm isn't expected to be as intense.

HALIFAX 鈥� An investigation into how the Canadian Coast Guard responded to a Nova Scotia vessel in distress two years ago raises questions about why one fisherman died after a towing operation went awry.

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) 鈥� The top official for North Carolina's efforts to rebuild communities after natural disasters is no longer working in the position just a few days after a scathing rebuke of her work from GOP state lawmakers.

B.C. Hydro spokesman Ted Olynyk called it one of the worst storms he鈥檚 ever experienced: 鈥淲hether it was a bomb or a cyclone, it was a very significant event.鈥�

GRINDAVIK, Iceland (AP) 鈥� A volcano erupted with lava spewing from a fissure on the Reykjanes Peninsula in southwestern Iceland late Wednesday evening. It was its seventh eruption since December.

ISSAQUAH, Wash. (AP) 鈥� A major storm battered the U.S. Northwest with strong winds and rain , causing widespread power outages, closing schools and downing trees that killed at least two people.

VANCOUVER 鈥� Geoff Johnson and fellow storm watchers in Ucluelet, B.C., were concerned on Tuesday about the so-called "bomb cyclone" taking shape off Vancouver Island 鈥� not for safety reasons, but because they wondered if it would be "disappointing.