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Twelve people have died from floods and landslides caused by heavy monsoon rains intensified by a typhoon in the Philippines, the national disaster agency said on Wednesday. Government work and school classes were suspended in the capital, Manila, due to the flooding. Trading at the Philippine Stock Exchange was also suspended. Floods in some areas in the capital were chest-deep, closing roads to traffic. In the financial district of Makati, people waded through knee-deep floods, while cars slowly moved. Typhoon Gaemi is packing maximum sustained winds of 155 kilometres per hour (km/h) and gus…

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