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Northern Territory emergency services are urging Top End residents to make their cyclone plans as Tropical Cyclone Fina approaches the NT coast as a category two system. The Bureau of Meteorology has ...

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Severe Tropical Cyclone Fina has left a wave of destruction in its path after heavy rainfall and roaring winds with brutal gusts of up to 200km/h swept across Australia's Top End on Saturday night.

Bangladeshand Eastern India wereon high alert Thursday as forecasters warned Tropical Cyclone Sidr could slam into the impoverished region's heavily populatedsouthern coast within the next 24 hours.

Residents wade through the flooded streets in Fiji's capital city of Suva on Wednesday. The government was urging Fiji residents to prepare for Cyclone Yasa, a Category 5 storm expected to make ...

Tropical Cyclone Fina has intensified into a category two storm off the Northern Territory coast, as authorities urge Top End residents to make their emergency cyclone plans ahead of the system's ...