new video loaded: Hong Kong Residents Reel From Deadliest Fire in Decades Dozens were killed in a fire that engulfed several apartment buildings in Hong Kong. Firefighters were still battling the blaze on Thursday, and dozens of people were still missing. By Nader Ibrahim, Tiffany May and Lam Yik Fei for The New York Times […]
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‘How do you rebuild all this?’ Black River residents assess damage after Hurricane Melissa | Jamaica
It is a treacherous journey to Black River, a coastal town in Jamaica’s southwestern parish of St Elizabeth, which this week bore the brunt of Hurricane Melissa, one of the strongest Atlantic hurricanes on record. Uprooted trees and lamp-posts, rubble from landslides, huge potholes and miles of thick, slippery silt from severe flooding have turned […]