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Hurricane Melissa slams Jamaica

Hurricane Melissa live updates: Storm strikes Cuba after tearing through Jamaica

Hurricane Melissa tore a path of destruction across Jamaica on Tuesday, prompting the prime minister to declare the country a disaster area, after the storm made landfall as a Category 5 hurricane, on...

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Category 5 Hurricane Melissa brings flooding and catastrophic winds to Jamaica

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Hurricane Melissa heads toward Cuba as a powerful storm, after hitting Jamaica with historic force

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'Absolute monster': Jamaica’s 'strongest' ever storm Hurricane Melissa makes landfall

Hurricane Melissa has made landfall in Jamaica, delivering damaging winds of 295km per hour, making it the nation’s most powerful-ever storm.

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Hurricane Melissa makes landfall as Jamaica's strongest-ever storm

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'Catastrophic' hurricane slams Jamaica with fierce winds and rain

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Jamaica braces for the strongest storm on Earth this year as Hurricane Melissa barrels toward the island, triggering mass evacuations

'This can become a true humanitarian crisis very quickly, and there is likely going to be the need for a lot of international support,' Porter said in a phone interview.

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Why Hurricane Melissa turned into a supercharged monster

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Jamaica reels from strongest hurricane in its history as Cuba hit by 'life-threatening' storm surges

Hurricane Melissa live updates: Category 2 storm slams into Cuba after devastating Jamaica

The National Hurricane Center said this morning that Hurricane Melissa made landfall on the southern coast of Cuba as an "extremely dangerous" Category 3 storm, with winds of 120 mph. The storm hit near the city of Chivirico in the Cuban province of Santiago de Cuba.

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Hurricane Melissa barrels over Cuba after hammering Jamaica: Live updates

Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba overnight after battering Jamaica as one of the most powerful landfalling storms in Atlantic basin history.