Port Vila

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the world's longest river cruise on January 13 in Varanasi, which the Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal said will herald a new age of river cruise tourism for India.

The Vanuatu political landscape appeared to be in for a shakeup, reports said today, following a snap election called after more than a quarter of MPs were jailed in a corruption scandal.

South Africa replaced Quinton de Kock with Dane Vilas, who flew from Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg on the morning of the third Test against England to fill in.

The death toll from the devastating storm that pummelled Vanuatu last weekend will not rise significantly, the prime minister of the South Pacific island nation said today.

Villagers in Vanuatu buried food and fresh water as one of the strongest storms on record bore down on them, fleeing to churches, schools and even coconut drying kilns as 300 kph winds and massive seas tore their flimsy houses to the ground.

Vanuatu's government has hit out at aid groups swarming into the cyclone-ravaged Pacific nation over a lack of coordination which it said cost precious time getting help to those in need.

Aid groups and survivors of one of the world's most powerful storms on record are hoping that early warnings, concrete-walled homes, cave refuges and a healthy respect for the sea have saved the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu from a huge death toll.

International aid agencies began emergency flights today to some of the remote outer islands of Vanuatu, which they fear have been devastated by a monster cyclone that tore through the South Pacific island nation.

Vanuatu's President today pleaded with the world to help the cyclone-ravaged Pacific nation rebuild as aid agencies warned conditions were among the most challenging they have ever faced with fears of disease rife.

Aid agencies today described conditions in cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu as among the most challenging they have ever faced, as the Pacific nation's president blamed climate change for worsening the devastation.

Vanuatu's President Baldwin Lonsdale said Monday climate change was a key factor in the devastation wrought on the Pacific nation by Super Cyclone Pam, which left six dead and 30 injured in the capital Port Vila alone.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the world's longest river cruise on January 13 in Varanasi, which the Union Minister of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Sarbananda Sonowal said will herald a new age of river cruise tourism for India.

The Vanuatu political landscape appeared to be in for a shakeup, reports said today, following a snap election called after more than a quarter of MPs were jailed in a corruption scandal.

South Africa replaced Quinton de Kock with Dane Vilas, who flew from Port Elizabeth to Johannesburg on the morning of the third Test against England to fill in.

The death toll from the devastating storm that pummelled Vanuatu last weekend will not rise significantly, the prime minister of the South Pacific island nation said today.

Villagers in Vanuatu buried food and fresh water as one of the strongest storms on record bore down on them, fleeing to churches, schools and even coconut drying kilns as 300 kph winds and massive seas tore their flimsy houses to the ground.

Vanuatu's government has hit out at aid groups swarming into the cyclone-ravaged Pacific nation over a lack of coordination which it said cost precious time getting help to those in need.

Aid groups and survivors of one of the world's most powerful storms on record are hoping that early warnings, concrete-walled homes, cave refuges and a healthy respect for the sea have saved the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu from a huge death toll.

International aid agencies began emergency flights today to some of the remote outer islands of Vanuatu, which they fear have been devastated by a monster cyclone that tore through the South Pacific island nation.

Vanuatu's President today pleaded with the world to help the cyclone-ravaged Pacific nation rebuild as aid agencies warned conditions were among the most challenging they have ever faced with fears of disease rife.

Aid agencies today described conditions in cyclone-ravaged Vanuatu as among the most challenging they have ever faced, as the Pacific nation's president blamed climate change for worsening the devastation.

Vanuatu's President Baldwin Lonsdale said Monday climate change was a key factor in the devastation wrought on the Pacific nation by Super Cyclone Pam, which left six dead and 30 injured in the capital Port Vila alone.