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Sydney (AFP) Sept 8, 2016 - A strong 6.3 magnitude earthquake struck Friday southwest of remote Macquarie Island where Australia maintains a small Antarctic base, officials said, but no injuries or damage were reported.
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Bissau (AFP) Sept 22, 2021 - Striking medical workers in Guinea-Bissau have paralysed hospitals, officials said on Wednesday, with the government in the West African state deploying army medics as a stopgap.
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Wellington (AFP) Sept 5, 2010 - While New Zealand Prime Minister John Key says it is a miracle no one was killed in the Christchurch earthquake, experts believe it was the country's strict building codes that prevented mass fatalities.
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Hong Kong (AFP) Sept 30, 2019 - Ripped-up paving stones lay scattered around the graffiti-scarred streets of Hong Kong after one of the most violent days in a summer of rage, as protesters ready for fresh clashes on Tuesday's 70th anniversary of communist China's founding.
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Washington (AFP) Sept 19, 2008 - Walnut trees stressed by drought and other factors release large amounts of an aspirin compound to reduce damage and possibly warn nearby plants, a study released Friday found.
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San Juan (AFP) Sept 21, 2022 - Hurricane Fiona continued its slow and devastating march northward after slamming the Turks and Caicos Islands on Tuesday and leaving a trail of destruction in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
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Beijing (AFP) Sept 22, 2020 - Cherry Lin wistfully strokes a babygrow, fretting it may be too small for a son she is yet to meet - one of hundreds of Chinese mothers estranged from babies born to commercial surrogates overseas after the coronavirus forced border closures.
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London (AFP) Sept 9, 2016 - Ships around the world will have to carry ballast water treatment facilities on board from next year to prevent the spread of potentially invasive aquatic species, under a new international treaty.
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Miami (AFP) Sept 4, 2008 - A powerful hurricane and two tropical storms on Thursday threaten to wreak more destruction in the waterlogged Caribbean and southeastern United States in the coming days.
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Volos, Greece (AFP) Sept 7, 2023 - Storms have killed at least 14 people in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, with a Greek region hit by more rain in 24 hours than it normally sees in a year, officials said Wednesday.
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Algiers (AFP) Sept 2, 2012 - Storms sweeping across northeast Algeria have killed 20 people and injured 56, the state news agency APS on Sunday cited emergency services as saying.
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Mumbai (AFP) Sept 26, 2024 - Storms and heavy rains have killed at least four people in India's financial capital Mumbai and the surrounding region, forcing schools to close and disrupting train services, officials and local reports said Thursday.
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Los Angeles (AFP) Sept 28, 2014 - Severe storms hit Phoenix's international airport on Saturday, briefly grounding flights, the airport announced on Twitter.
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London (AFP) Sept 27, 2012 - Britain's most severe September storms for 30 years flooded homes and businesses in the historic city of York on Thursday and threatened chaos for much of northern England.
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Shanghai (AFP) Sept 25, 2008 - Torrential rains left at least 18 dead in China, including a Briton, and 17 missing, as Typhoon Hagupit pounded the south and another storm battered the quake-hit southwest, state media said Thursday.
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Miami (AFP) Sept 18, 2020 - Meteorologists were forced to break out the Greek alphabet Friday to name Atlantic storms for only the second time ever after the 2020 hurricane season blew through their usual list, ending on Tropical Storm Wilfred.
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