PHILIPPINES: Tropical Storm Trami blew away from the country’s north-west today, leaving at least 65 people dead in landslides and extensive flooding as authorities scramble for more rescue boats to save thousands of people who were trapped, some on their roofs.

A provincial police chief said that 33 people had been killed, mostly in landslides set off by Trami in Batangas province, south of Manila. That brought the overall death toll from the storm to at least 65.

HUNGARY: Prime Minister Viktor Orban suggested today that the Polish government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk had been installed by the European Union as part of a plot to remove the country’s previous right-wing leadership.