Tonga Island

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'Like a shotgun': Tongan eruption is largest ever recorded

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Tonga volcano erupts eight times in two days

Chinese Foreign Minister, Wang Yi, visits Honiara, Solomon Islands, May 26, 2022. REUTERS/Geoff Saemanea
China

China's foreign minister visits Tonga after Pacific islands delay regional pact

Members of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force load emergency relief aid bound for Tonga to a ship in Kure, near Hiroshima, western Japan, 24 January, 2022. The Pacific archipelago nation of Tonga is in lockdown after detecting its first community transmission of Covid-19, which appears to have been brought in by aid workers delivering supplies of fresh water and medicine after last month's volcanic eruption and tsunami. Photo: Shingo Nishizume/Kyodo News via AP
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Aid reaching disaster-hit Tonga brings first virus outbreak

A satellite image shows Mango islands after Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano eruption, in Tonga, January 20, 2022. Photo :Reuters
Africa

Tongans fear never seeing loved ones again amid communications void

Australian Defence Forces members unload humanitarian assistance and engineering equipment from an aircraft at Fua'amotu International Airport, Tonga, 20 January, 2022. Australian Department Of Defence/Handout via REUTERS
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World rushes aid to tsunami-hit Tonga as drinking water, food runs short

A satellite image shows ash covered homes and buildings after the main eruption of the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai volcano, in Nuku'alofa, Tonga, January 18, 2022. Photo :Reuters
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Undersea cable fault could cut off Tonga from rest of the world for weeks

A plume rises over Tonga when the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai erupted in this satellite image taken by Himawari-8, a Japanese weather satellite operated by Japan Meteorological Agency, on January 15, 2022 and released by National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) and obtained by Reuters on January 16, 2022. National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT)/Handout via REUTERS
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Australia, New Zealand step up efforts to aid tsunami-hit Tonga