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Heavy rains in Australia’s east bring more pain to storm-hit residents

Heavy rains lashed parts of Australia’s east on Monday, triggering flash flooding, inundating roads and bringing more pain for some residents reeling after the intense thunderstorms that hit the region over the Christmas holidays. The northeastern New South Wales and southeastern Queensland regions were pounded by a wild weather system overnight, with several towns taking

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Confetti rains on Times Square ahead of NYE

Confetti testing has taken place in New York’s Times Square ahead of the city’s New Year’s Eve celebrations. Handfuls of colourful paper were sprinkled across the square on Friday local time. Organisers tested the confetti for its ‘airworthiness’ before it rains on the city to ring in the new year. More than one thousand kilograms

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Top producer Ivory Coast fears for cocoa output after rains

Following exceptionally heavy rain, this year’s overall harvest of cocoa, used to manufacture  chocolate, is set to be very low. “Thirty years I’ve been in cocoa — and this is the worst season yet,” said Siaka Sylla as he contemplated an almost empty warehouse at his cooperative in Ivory Coast, the world’s top producer of

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Heavy rains hit final day of royal tour in Kenya

King Charles III’s final day in Kenya disrupted by torrential rains. King Charles III’s final day in Kenya on Friday was hit by heavy rains and floods as he toured the historic heart of the Indian Ocean city of Mombasa. The inclement weather derailed plans for Charles and Queen Camilla to ride in an electric

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Two dead and three missing in Spain after worst heavy rains in years

The weekend storm affected almost the whole country, with the heaviest rains recorded on Sunday in the coastal provinces of Cadiz, Tarragona and Castello, according to state weather office Aemet Two people died and three were missing on Monday after heavy rains lashed drought-hit Spain, triggering flash floods that closed Madrid metro lines and high-speed

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