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1 Million Homeless in China Floods

AP reports on the floods in Foshan, the third major natural disaster to hit China this year:The floods killed 57 people, collapsed tens of thousands of homes, damaged crops across more than 2.12 million acres and causing more than an estimated $1.5 billion in economic losses. Banana trees were almost swallowed up by the muddy chocolate brown waters of the Xijiang River that overflowed its banks i