MANILA: Heavy rains pummelled the entire Philippines, threatening to aggravate flooding that has prompted the government to declare a state of “national calamity”.
The death toll after a week of devastating weather has risen to 35, according to confirmed reports from national and local disaster monitoring agencies.
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