Manila

Typhoon batters Asia: Supertyphoon Mangkhut roared across the northern Philippines this week, killing at least 66 people, many of them small-time gold miners buried by mudslides. Then it slammed into China, flooding Hong Kong and Macau with waist-high waters, uprooting trees, and causing skyscrapers to sway. Four people were killed in China’s densely populated southern province of Guangdong, where authorities had evacuated more than 3 million people ahead of the storm’s landfall. Scientists said Mangkhut, equivalent to a Category 5 hurricane, is the world’s most powerful storm of 2018, with wind gusts of up to 200 mph and a span 550 miles wide.