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Fireworks explode over the Sydney Opera House and Harbour Bridge as New Year's Eve celebrations begin in Sydney, Friday, Dec. 31, 2021. (Dean Lewins/AAP Image via AP)

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Omicron’s New Years cocktail: Sorrow, fear but hope for 2022

by John Leicester Associated Press, and Nick Perry Associated PressDecember 31, 2021

John Fitzgerald, left, on holidays with his wife Rita and friends, scans the horizon from high ground for any sign of a tsunami near Waitangi, New Zealand, Friday, March 5, 2021. A powerful magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck in the ocean off the coast of New Zealand prompting thousands of people to evacuate and triggering tsunami warnings across the South Pacific. (Peter De Graaf/New Zealand Herald via AP)

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Big quake off New Zealand spurs evacuations

by Nick Perry Associated PressMarch 4, 2021

An Australian Army helicopter lands on Pikelot Island in the Federated States of Micronesia, where three men missing for three days were found Sunday safe and healthy.

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SOS aids men’s rescue from Pacific island

by Nick Perry Associated PressAugust 4, 2020

Students wearing face masks and maintaining social distancing at a classroom during the first day of school reopening at a high school in Putrajaya, Malaysia, Wednesday, June 24, 2020. Malaysia began reopening schools Wednesday while entering the Recovery Movement Control Order (RMCO) after three months of coronavirus restrictions. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)

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Some states break virus records as US caseload grows

by Nomaan Merchant Associated Press, Nick Perry Associated Press, and Ken Moritsugu Associated PressJune 24, 2020

Relatives carry the coffin of a suspected COVID-19 victim at the Nueva Esperanza cemetery on the outskirts of Lima, Peru, Thursday, May 28, 2020. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)

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New Zealand near eradication, but virus has grim global hold

by Nick Perry Associated PressMay 29, 2020

Volunteer firefighter Ash Graham camps on the lawn near the fire station at Nerrigundah, Australia, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020, since losing his house and his dog when a wildfire ripped through the town on New Year's Eve. The tiny village of Nerrigundah in New South Wales has been among the hardest hit by Australia's devastating wildfires, with about two thirds of the homes destroyed and a 71-year-old man killed. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)

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Scorched by fire, struggling with loss

by Nick Perry Associated Press, and Sam McNeil Associated PressJanuary 14, 2020

This satellite photo provided by Maxar Technologies shows wildfires spreading in the area south of Eden and Twofold Bay, shown in black, in New South Wales state of Australia, Sunday, Jan. 12, 2020. (Satellite image ©2020 Maxar Technologies via AP)

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Australia turns to offense on fires

by Nick Perry Associated PressJanuary 12, 2020

Plumes of steam rise above White Island off the coast of Whakatane, New Zealand, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2019. Survivors of a powerful volcanic eruption in New Zealand on Monday Dec. 9 ran into the sea to escape the scalding steam and ash and emerged covered in burns, say those who first helped them.(AP Photo/Mark Baker)

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New Zealand volcano vents steam as death toll rises to 16

by Nick Perry Associated PressDecember 11, 2019

This Dec. 9, 2019, photo provided by Michael Schade, shows the eruption of the volcano on White Island, New Zealand. Unstable conditions continued to hamper rescue workers from searching for people missing and feared dead after the volcano off the New Zealand coast erupted in a towering blast of ash and scalding steam while dozens of tourists explored its moon-like surface. (Michael Schade via AP)

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Six dead from volcano as helpers describe horror

by Nick Perry Associated PressDecember 10, 2019

This aerial photo shows White Island after its volcanic eruption in New Zealand, Monday.

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Up to 13 feared dead in New Zealand volcano eruption

by Nick Perry Associated PressDecember 9, 2019