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Oil companies with off-shore platforms in the Gulf of Mexico are taking precautions amid threatening storm forecasts for the area around Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula, including the chance of a tropical cyclone.

Super Typhoon Megi has slammed ashore along the Philippines' northeastern coast with ferocious winds of 140 miles (225 kilometers) per hour, becoming the strongest cyclone to hit the country in years.

A cyclone that tore into southern Bangladesh and eastern India has killed at least 168 people and left hundreds of thousands homeless, according to relief workers and news agencies.