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Hurricane Alex makes landfall on Texas-Mexico border

A palm tree yielding in a tropical storm

Hurricane Alex drenched the Texas-Mexico border in the early hours on Thursday as the powerful storm slammed into Mexico's Gulf coast, spawning tornadoes and flooding towns, but sparing US oil wells.

The Category 2 hurricane unleashed winds of 105mph that uprooted trees and knocked over flimsy houses and has come as a blow to efforts to control the BP oil spill off the Louisiana coast, where some

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