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January 16, 2020

OPINION: Ten years after earthquake, Haiti still vulnerable to disasters

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* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. In the past decade, Haiti has been hit by drought, cholera, hurricanes and more tremors – and is struggling to protect its people Haiti has had little reprieve from disasters in the past 10 years since […]

November 25, 2019

More than 60 fires still burning in NSW

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More than 65 bushfires continue to burn across NSW, with lightning strikes possibly starting others.

Aircraft are searching for new bushfires from lightning strikes during overnight thunderstorms, with NSW firefighters continuing to battle dozens of blazes across the state. More than 65 fires were burning at 9am on Monday, 25 of them uncontained. More than 1300 firefighters remain in the field across NSW. Overall conditions have eased compared with the […]