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Tonga: two New Zealand navy ships arrive with emergency aid

A small desalination plant is on board one of the New Zealand ships to convert seawater into badly needed drinking water for Tongans.

The first ships have arrived to bring aid to Tonga, following Saturday's huge volcanic eruption, which scientists say may have been the loudest event on Earth in more than a century.

At least seventeen people are known to have died in Ghana in a huge explosion that flattened most of a village.

And what can be achieved by a meeting between the top diplomats of Russia and the US today as Sergei Lavrov and Anthony Blinken meet to discuss Ukraine.

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  • Fri 21 Jan 2022 06:06GMT