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After days hovering off the coast as a category 2 tropical cyclone and battering a 400-kilometre (250-mile) stretch of ...

Emergency flood alerts have been issued and about 238,000 homes and businesses are without power in Queensland and New South Wales in the wake of Ex-Cyclone Alfred. It comes after severe winds lashed ...

Ex-Cyclone Alfred : continues to wreak havoc across Australia's east coast, bringing torrential rain, fierce winds, and ...

Gusts and torrential rain have blacked out more than a quarter of a million properties and swamped parts of Australia's east ...

THOUSANDS of Irish citizens residing in Australia are warned to stay clear as Cyclone Alfred threatens to unleash floods ...

Hundreds of thousands of people are under a blackout in Queensland, while flood warnings remain in place across New South ...

Flash flooding has started on the Sunshine Coast after a deluge brought in the aftermath of ex Tropical Cyclone Alfred.