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| UpdatedTensions between refugees and locals on the pacific island of Nauru are heightened after a series of violent attacks that have left multiple refugees injured or arrested.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, community-and-society, immigration, refugees, nauru, pacific
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| UpdatedThe destruction caused by Tropical Cyclone Pam this week across the Pacific highlights how communities go about recovering after a disaster.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, storm-disaster, cyclone, weather, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, fires, cyclones, vanuatu, philippines, japan, australia, asia, pacific, vic
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Vanuatu hits out at aid groups over a lack of coordination that it says has resulted in "precious time" being wasted as the country grapples with the aftermath of Cyclone Pam.
Topics: cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, government-and-politics, vanuatu, pacific, australia
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#TalkAboutIt takes a look at the courage and strength of people around the world who have picked up the pieces, rebuilt and found peace after a disaster. But when the physical recovery is over is that really it?
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, storm-disaster, australia, asia, pacific
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| UpdatedAustralian officials locate five international volunteers who went missing in Vanuatu after Cyclone Pam, but continue search for 14 others.
Topics: missing-person, cyclone, vanuatu, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedClimate change exacerbated the damage caused by Cyclone Pam, which left a trail of destruction across Vanuatu, Australia's Climate Council says.
Topics: climate-change, cyclone, cyclones, vanuatu, australia, pacific
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| UpdatedA team of 20 Australian medical staff to start treating people injured by Cyclone Pam in Vanuatu's capital of Port Vila today.
Topics: disasters-and-accidents, cyclones, emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, vanuatu, solomon-islands, kiribati, tuvalu, pacific, australia
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Emergency aid begins to reach some of the outlying islands of Vanuatu, after the Pacific archipelago was last week pummelled by one of the strongest cyclones on record.
Topics: cyclones, emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, disasters-and-accidents, vanuatu, pacific, australia, tuvalu, kiribati, solomon-islands
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As aid agencies reach the more remote islands hit hard by Cyclone Pam, the full extent of the devastation in Vanuatu is becoming clear.
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| UpdatedVanuatu warns it faces imminent food shortages as accounts emerge of huge damage to a large outer island, days after one of the fiercest cyclones on record pummelled the Pacific archipelago.
Topics: cyclones, emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, disasters-and-accidents, vanuatu, pacific, australia, tuvalu, kiribati, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedForeign Minister Julie Bishop says the Federal Government will send an additional urban search and rescue team to Vanuatu in response to the devastation caused by Tropical Cyclone Pam.
Topics: cyclones, emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, vanuatu, pacific, tuvalu, kiribati, solomon-islands
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| UpdatedAn international human rights group says Cyclone Pam's most vulnerable victims are the women left in its devastating wake.
Topics: cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, rights, women, vanuatu, pacific, japan
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| UpdatedA massive aid effort is slowly getting underway in Vanuatu's capital Port Vila, but the full extent of the devastation caused by Cyclone Pam is still not known.
Topics: cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, cyclone, relief-and-aid-organisations, vanuatu, pacific
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| UpdatedTwenty-four people have been killed by Cyclone Pam which tore through Vanuatu, the UN says, as the Pacific nation's president pleads for help to rebuild the archipelago's "completely destroyed" infrastructure.
Topics: storm-disaster, disasters-and-accidents, cyclone, weather, cyclones, health, relief-and-aid-organisations, government-and-politics, vanuatu, australia, solomon-islands, kiribati, tuvalu, fiji, pacific
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| UpdatedThe president of Vanuatu makes an emotional plea for humanitarian assistance following the widespread devastation caused by Tropical Cyclone Pam at the weekend.
Topics: cyclone, emergency-planning, emergency-incidents, storm-disaster, vanuatu, pacific
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| UpdatedForeign Minister Julie Bishop announces a $5 million assistance package to provide aid to Vanuatu, after the South Pacific archipelago took a direct hit from Tropical Cyclone Pam.
Topics: cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, cyclone, relief-and-aid-organisations, vanuatu, pacific, australia
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| UpdatedVanuatu's government declares a state of emergency for Shefa province, which takes in the country's capital Port Vila, as relief workers assess the damage left behind by Tropical Cyclone Pam.
Topics: cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, cyclone, relief-and-aid-organisations, vanuatu, pacific
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| UpdatedTropical Cyclone Pam has ravaged the tiny island nation of Vanuatu, causing widespread destruction and leaving thousands displaced.
Topics: cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, relief-and-aid-organisations, vanuatu, pacific
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Vanuatu is bearing the brunt of severe tropical Cyclone Pam. The category five storm is unleashing winds of up to 240 kilometres an hour as it moves slowly south.
Topics: storm-disaster, weather, vanuatu, pacific
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| UpdatedA category five tropical cyclone is battering Vanuatu, packing winds of up to 250 kilometres per hour and triggering mass flooding in parts of the country.
Topics: cyclone, cyclones, weather, disasters-and-accidents, vanuatu, kiribati, solomon-islands, pacific
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| UpdatedAuthorities in Vanuatu are warning of heavy rain and flash flooding, particularly in low-lying areas, as Severe Tropical Cyclone Pam heads toward the capital after intensifying to category five.
Topics: cyclones, cyclone, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, floods, disasters-and-accidents, rainfall, vanuatu, kiribati, fiji, solomon-islands, pacific
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| UpdatedTropical Cyclone Pam has reached category five status as it slowly makes its way towards Vanuatu.
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| UpdatedThe pacific nation of Vanuatu is bracing for a powerful hit from severe Tropical Cyclone Pam which has been upgraded to a category four system.
Topics: cyclones, cyclone, rainfall, floods, emergency-incidents, emergency-planning, disasters-and-accidents, solomon-islands, vanuatu, fiji, australia, pacific
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| UpdatedTropical Cyclone Pam has intensified to a category four system with weather warnings in place for parts of Vanuatu's north.
Topics: weather, storm-event, cyclone, vanuatu, fiji, solomon-islands, australia, pacific
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| UpdatedA newly-formed volcanic island off Tonga could be the country's latest tourism attraction, a local tourism operator says.
Topics: volcanic-eruption, travel-and-tourism, tonga, pacific