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Melissa came ashore in Jamaica as a category five hurricane on Tuesday, carrying top winds of 185mph.

British nationals should use commercial flights as their first port of call to leave the country, the FCDO said.

The US National Hurricane Centre said Melissa was ‘one of the most powerful hurricane landfalls on record in the Atlantic basin’.

As many as 8,000 British citizens are in Jamaica, with people ordered to stay inside to avoid the world’s strongest storm of the year so far.

A crisis centre has been set up ready to help Britons on the Caribbean island.

The Panama Canal is one of the most important waterways in the world, with about 7% of global trade passing through. It also relies heavily on rainfall. Without enough freshwater flowing in, the canal’s locks can’t raise and lower ships traveling between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Droughts mean fewer…

Following its new attacks on Syria, Israel’s leaders and much of its media tout the creation of a new Middle East.

José Raúl Mulino was set to become the new leader of the Central American nation as authorities unofficially called the race Sunday night after his three nearest rivals conceded.

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's government faces a deadline this week — to commit to holding free and fair elections or face renewed U.S. oil sanctions.