A t least three people have been killed and hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee their homes as a typhoon ripped through the central Philippines, the country's disaster agency said. Typhoon Kalmaegi has flooded large areas, including entire towns on the island of Cebu.

Thousands were evacuated in coastal provinces of the Philippines on Monday, ahead of a typhoon due to make landfall in a region hit by some of the country's deadliest storms."Some local governments are resorting to forced evacuations,

Philippine officials have ordered tens of thousands of people to evacuate to safer ground and prohibited fishermen from venturing out to sea in an east-central region as a typhoon approached from the

Domestic challenges threaten to derail the military’s efforts to upgrade its capabilities and reorient itself toward new strategic priorities.

The morning of Oct. 25 was a rush. ManilaBoy was in the house.

More than 150,000 people have been evacuated across the eastern provinces of the Philippines as Typhoon Kalmaegi, locally named Tino, approaches from the Pacific. Authorities have issued warnings for torrential rains, potentially destructive winds, and storm surges reaching up to three metres (nearly 10 feet).

Forceful floodwaters in Cebu province, Philippines, picked up and rolled shipping containers on 4 November. At least one person has died as residents were forced to seek shelter from the high water on rooftops. Ahead of the typhoon, the Office of Civil Defence said "close to 150,000" people had been evacuated.