Over 10,000 evacuated in Philippines as Super Typhoon Ragasa approaches

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More than 10,000 people sheltered in schools and evacuation centres in the Philippines on Monday as heavy rains and gale-force winds from Super Typhoon Ragasa lashed the country’s far north.The typhoon, which is gaining strength as it proceeds on a collision course with southern China, is expected to make landfall over the Philippines’ Babuyan Island.The sparsely populated islands lie about 740km (460 miles) south of Taiwan, where smaller-scale evacuations were also under way.As of 11am,...