By AP and published by Yahoo!News A TSUNAMI has hit coastal areas of Russia’s Kuril Islands and Japan’s large northern island of Hokkaido after a powerful, 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia early Wednesday (July 30). Warnings are also in place for Alaska, Hawaii and other coasts south toward New Zealand. The
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US cautions after Hawaii neighbour Kiribati gets Chinese police
By Reuters and published by US News & World Report Washington/Sydney – The United States on Monday (Feb. 26) cautioned Pacific Islands nations against assistance from Chinese security forces after Reuters reported that Chinese police are working in the remote atoll nation of Kiribati, a neighbour of Hawaii. Kiribati’s acting police commissioner Eeri Aritiera
Read moreHawaii wildfires raze resort city on Maui island, killing dozens
By Marco Garcia, Reuters, and published by Yahoo!News Kahului, Hawaii – A wildfire that swept through the resort town of Lahaina on Hawaii’s Maui island has killed at least 36 people, authorities said, while leaving smouldering ruins in its wake and forcing thousands to flee the onetime capital of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Video footage
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