People in flood-ravaged Fiji have begun returning home after spending several days in evacuation centres.
The death toll from the floods has risen to five after some of the worst flooding the country has seen in decades.
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A family of four has died under a landslide in Fiji, as forecasters predict lingering torrential rain in the flood-battered region.
Police told FBC News a 35-year-old father, 30-year-old mother and their two daughters, aged three and one, were buried alive under the landslide in Ba on the island of Viti Levu yesterday morning.
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Perth is sweltering through the eighth heatwave of the summer and autumn seasons, the first time such an event has happened since records started being kept in 1897.
The Bureau of Meteorology defines a heatwave as three consecutive days at or above 35 degrees Celsius.
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Fearing that climate change could wipe out their entire Pacific archipelago, the leaders of Kiribati are considering an unusual backup plan: moving the populace to Fiji.
Kiribati President Anote Tong told The Associated Press on Friday that his Cabinet this week endorsed a plan to buy nearly 6,000 acres on Fiji’s main island, Viti Levu.
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Sydney was thrown into chaos Thursday after the city’s heaviest rainfall in five years sparked widespread flash flooding and forced the closure of railway lines and dozens of roads.
Large tracts of Australia’s most populous state New South Wales are under water, with Sydney feeling the force of a La Nina weather system as an estimated 119 millimetres (4.7 inches) of rain fell on the city — the highest daily total since 2007.
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Australia: A MASSIVE 300sq km span of water is travelling west in the Riverina leaving towns under water in its wake as the NSW floods continue.
The entire town of Yenda is under shallow water as the water travels overland towards the Murrumbidgee River.
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WAGGA WAGGA, Australia (Reuters) – Thousands of spiders have cast eerie webs over vast areas of flood-hit Australia after being forced to seek shelter by the rising waters.
Experts said the spiders may be spinning the sticky webs to help them survive the deluge, which has forced thousands of people to leave their homes over the past week.
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Video Report: Flood levels around the New South Wales city of Wagga Wagga have begun falling, but residents have been told they still cannot go home. Read More / Watch Video »
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Australia: Residents of Katherine in the Northern Territory are being urged to stay away from bats because they could be carrying a potentially fatal disease.
The town’s main sportsground was closed last week, after an estimated 250,000 bats descended on nearby trees.
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Hundreds of anxious residents from St George in southern inland Queensland are being housed in Dalby on the state’s Western Downs until the worst of the floods are over.
About 350 St George residents, many of them children, are at the Dalby showgrounds, while another 40 displaced are being put up down the road at a Police Citizens Youth and Club.
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A shallow 6.9-magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of the South Pacific island of Vanuatu late on Thursday, the US Geological Survey said, but there was no tsunami warning.
There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage.
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Two families have been evacuated from a town cut off by the swollen Moonie River in the western Darling Downs.
Western Downs Regional Mayor Ray Brown says the families were voluntarily evacuated from Flinton earlier today.
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Video Report:Thousands of residents remain isolated by floodwaters along the New South Wales north coast as the threat moves inland.About 2,000 residents are already isolated by floodwaters on the mid and far north coast and a flood watch has now been issued for townships along the Nambucca River – including Bowraville. Read More / Watch Video »
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About 4,200 people have been evacuated from their homes on the New South Wales far north coast, after the same weather system that drenched Queensland moved south.
Ten flood warnings are in place for rivers in the state’s north-east, where up to 550 millimetres of rain has fallen in some areas over three days.
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Magnitude-6.3 Earthquake hits Fiji area of South Pacific* SUVA, Fiji — A magnitude-6.3 earthquake has shaken the Pacific region south of the Fiji islands.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries, and the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue any alerts or warnings after the quake.
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WELLINGTON — Two farmers were killed and more than 700 people evacuated as torrential rain flooded large parts of Fiji’s main island Viti Levu, officials said Tuesday.
Roads to the western part of the island were cut after days of heavy rain and 715 people were sheltering in evacuation centres, the Pacific nation’s information ministry said.
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