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Only 20% in Puerto Rico have electricity a month after hurricane
A month after Hurricane Maria rolled across the centre of Puerto Rico, the power is still out for the vast majority of people on the island as the work to restore hundreds of miles of transmission lines and thousands of miles of distribution lines goes on.
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'There's nothing left': Haiti farmers left devastated after Hurricane Matthew
In some areas of Haiti between 90 and 100 per cent of the crops were destroyed by Hurricane Matthew. In some cases it will take a decade for trees to regrow.
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Haitians pray in destroyed churches, thousands awaiting aid after storm
Survivors of Hurricane Matthew put on their Sunday finest and picked their way through downed power lines to sing praise and pray in ruined churches, while desperation grew in other parts of devastated Haiti and international rescue efforts began ramping up.
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Guantanamo prisoners sent to Uruguay for resettlement
Six men held for 12 years at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were sent to Uruguay for resettlement on Sunday, the Pentagon said, the latest step in a slow-moving effort by the Obama administration to close the facility.
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