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FILE - In this Feb. 24, 2016, file photo, Sanjogeeta Kiran, right, with her sister Sulva Kiran, second left, and her children Shivendera, left, and Raajeen, sit amid the debris of their home in RakiRaki, Fiji, after cyclone Winston ripped through the island nation. The cyclone which tore through Fiji two weeks ago was so powerful that at the Namena Island Resort, it ripped out a commercial oven and tossed it half the length of a football field. The cyclone not only ripped apart thousands of homes, it also tore at the fabric of the South Pacific nation’s economy. Apart from tourism, which accounts for one-third of GDP, it also wiped out a significant chunk of the sugar crop, another big source of foreign income. (Brett Phibbs/New Zealand Herald via AP, File) NEW ZEALAND OUT, AUSTRALIA OUT
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