A powerful typhoon made landfall in Taiwan on Thursday, killing one person and bringing high winds and floods to much of the island's east coast and northern areas, after barreling past the northern Philippines.
People walk in the rain as Typhoon Kong-rey approaches to Taiwan in Taipei, Taiwan, Thursday, Oct. 31, 2024. A powerful typhoon made landfall in Taiwan on Thursday, killing one person and bringing high winds and floods to much of the island's east coast and northern areas, after barreling past the northern Philippines.Typhoon Kong-rey was blowing at 184 kilometres per hour with gusts of up to 227 km/h as it moved over the eastern county of Taitung.
Earlier Thursday, the typhoon's eye blew about 110 kilometres east of the northernmost Philippine province of Batanes, a cluster of islands and islets of about 19,000 people. Villagers in northern Philippine provinces evacuated to shelters on Wednesday. With Halloween nigh people gravitate toward fear even in a complex and sometimes scary world. Here are some favorites — lore and fiction, with maybe some truth sprinkled throughout — that The Associated Press gathered from its journalists around the planet:
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