{
  "id": 3082018,
  "title": "Severe Flooding Bares Garbage and Corruption Problems in the Philippines",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/severe-flooding-bares-garbage-and-corruption-problems-in-the",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-24T12:32:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Diplomat",
    "slug": "the-diplomat",
    "url": "https://thediplomat.com/2026/08/severe-flooding-bares-garbage-and-corruption-problems-in-the-philippines/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Lawmakers and contractors used the climate crisis to push forward flood-control projects. But those have turned out to be defective and in some cases even non-existent.",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}