LONDON, Oct 27: King Charles III's cancer diagnosis will not prevent him flying abroad next year for foreign visits, a Buckingham Palace official said, as the monarch wrapped up a tour of Australia and Samoa. "We're now working on a pretty normal looking full overseas tour programme for next year, which is a high for us to end on, to know that we can be thinking in those terms," the official said late Saturday. Charles was diagnosed with an undisclosed cancer earlier this year but doctors agreed he could pause his treatment to allow him to travel to Australia and Samoa. — AFP
Death toll in Philippine storm rises to 100
MANILA, Oct 27: Rescuers in the Philippines were diving into a lake and scouring isolated villages on Sunday to locate dozens of missing people as the death toll from Tropical Storm Trami hit 100. Trami, which rammed into the Philippines on October 24, was among the deadliest storms to hit the Southeast Asian country this year. According to the national disaster agency, it forced more than half a million people to flee their homes and at least 36 people remain missing. Police in the hardest-hit Bicol region have recorded 38 deaths, most due to drowning. — AFP
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