Tonga back online as cable repaired
Nuku’alofa, Tonga—Internet connection was restored in Tonga on Tuesday, five weeks after a massive volcanic eruption shredded the undersea cable ...
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Volcano damage to Tonga undersea cable worse than expected
The volcanic eruption near Tonga shredded an 80-kilometre (50 mile) stretch of undersea cable, complicating efforts to reconnect the Pacific ...
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Eruption-hit Tonga enters lockdown as Covid detected
Tonga will go into Covid-19 lockdown Wednesday after the virus was detected in a fresh blow to the Pacific kingdom ...
Read moreNASA: Tonga eruption equivalent to hundreds of Hiroshimas
Nuku’Alofa—The Tonga volcanic eruption unleashed explosive forces that dwarfed the power of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, NASA scientists have said, ...
Read more‘Proud’ Tongans determined to rebuild battered homeland
Tongans said they were determined to rebuild their battered homeland in the wake of last week’s devastating eruption and tsunami ...
Read moreHumanitarian flights finally reach Tonga
The first humanitarian flights arrived in volcano and tsunami-stricken Tonga Thursday, five days after the dual disaster cut the Pacific ...
Read more‘Extensive damage’ in tsunami-hit Tonga
Island kingdom 'virtually cut off' Wellington, New Zealand—Aid agencies reported “extensive damage” in the Pacific island nation of Tonga on ...
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Body of missing British woman found in Tonga
The body of a British woman swept away by a devastating tsunami that struck Tonga has been found, her brother ...
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Tonga cut off by volcanic blast
Sydney—Tonga was virtually cut off from the rest of the world Monday after a massive volcanic blast that crippled communications ...
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