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Indonesia - A landslide triggered by days of rain buried a village on Indonesia's main island of Java on Tuesday, leaving at last five people dead and another 14 missing, an official said.

The landslide happened in mountainous Jombang district in eastern Java at 1:30 am (1830 GMT Monday) after a particularly heavy downpour

Philippines - While many across the southern and central Philippines are still recovering from rounds of heavy rainfall this month, another tropical disturbance arrive later this week. Rains from former Tropical Storm Lingling, combined with the local monsoon, resulted in torrential rainfall, totalling more than 1220 mm (48 inches) in some parts of eastern Mindanao.

This event affected more than one million people, killing at least 64 people with more still missing. Even though rainfall has been much lighter across the region over the past several days, more than 100,000 people are still displaced from their homes. As people attempt to return to their homes and rebuild as necessary, another threat looms on the horizon.

A large area of showers and thunderstorms, currently just south of Guam, will track westward this week and reach the Philippines by Friday or Saturday. The heaviest rainfall is expected to occur over the areas that are still recovering from the recent flooding. New rainfall of 100-200 mm (4-8 inches) is expected with local amounts over 300 mm (12 inches). This amount of rainfall across the southern and central Philippines can quickly lead to widespread flooding, while hindering recovery efforts across the region.

Australia - King tide and cyclone coinciding has MacKay region on high alert. A tropical low was situated in the northern Coral Sea, approximately 870 kilometres east-northeast of Cairns, and moving southwest at around 10 kilometres per hour. They have issued a severe weather warning for people in the Northern Tropical Coast and Tablelands, Herbert and Lower Burdekin and parts of the Central Coast and Whitsundays Forecast Districts.

Alaska - Road traffic to Valdez was cut off from the rest of the state after a series of avalanches over the weekend blocked the only road into the coastal community. The highway to the town of about 4,000 was blocked after an avalanche in the Keystone Canyon on Friday, followed by another on Saturday. Valdez, one of Alaska's main seaports, lies in a remote area of the Chugach Mountains.