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The Latest Breaking News from the Indian Ocean

France's Mayotte verges on 'insurrection' as court stops slum clearing

A court has halted the clearing of a slum in France's department of Mayotte in the Indian Ocean, blocking efforts by the government to improve security. Police have clashed with local youth, leading security forces to describe a "climate of insurrection".

Radio France Internationale

Eleven Indonesian fishermen rescued after six days stranded on desert island in Pacific Ocean

Eleven Indonesian fishermen were rescued by Australian authorities after surviving six days without food or water on a tiny desert island in the Indian Ocean.

Evening Standard

Australia rescues Indonesian fishermen from desert island after cyclone

Australian authorities said on Wednesday they had rescued 11 Indonesian fishermen from a desert island in the Indian Ocean after their vessel shipwrecked during a powerful cyclone, stranding them there for six days without food and water.

Reuters

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Cyclone Ilsa: Western Australia braces for most powerful storm in 12 years to batter coast

Cyclone Isla is sweeping across the Indian Ocean with wind speeds of almost 200 mph and is expected to continue its destructive level as it hits Australia's west coast

Daily Mirror

Intensifying storm brings wind and rain to WA

A tropical low over the Indian Ocean is expected to develop into an intense cyclone before it makes landfall in Western Australia.

The New Daily

Pemba people finally given Kenyan citizenship, ending their statelessness

The Pemba live along the Indian Ocean, on the Kenyan coast. They arrived in the 1930s and have since been stateless – living without title deeds, social security, access to studies or fishing permits. But this is changing, as the Kenyan government has now officially recognised this community of several…

France 24

Germany to open its doors as labour shortage bites

Eisenhüttenstadt (Germany) (AFP) - An apprenticeship at a steelmaker brought Steven Maillot from the French island of Reunion in the Indian Ocean to Eisenhuettenstadt in Germany, a stone's throw from the Polish border.

AFP

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'City killer' asteroid will make rare close pass to Earth today

2023 DZ2 is estimated at between 40 metres and 90 metres in size, and will pass above the Indian Ocean at around 17,500mph

Wales Online

Cyclone Freddy was the most energetic storm on record. Is it a harbinger of things to come?

On February 4, a storm off the north-west coast of Australia was named Cyclone Freddy. It rapidly strengthened and headed west across the Indian Ocean, eventually causing devastation in eastern Africa. Hundreds of people died, tens of thousands more were displaced, national energy grids were crippled, flash flooding was widespread…

The Conversation

Deadly Cyclone Freddy Likely To Go Down As A Record-setting Storm In Multiple Ways

Long-lasting Tropical Storm Freddy's deadly journey is nearly finished after the storm made its third and final landfall.

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