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A trailer in a trailer park is pictured following Hurricane Irma in Key Biscayne, Florida, US, September 11, 2017. (Reuters)

Florida Residents Return Home to Survey Irma’s Damage

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 12, 2017 | World

Residents of Florida started to return to their homes on Tuesday after they had fled the destruction of Hurricane Irma as officials were slowly piecing together the scope of its vicious path across the peninsula. The fate of the Florida Keys, where Irma rumbled...

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Palm trees sway in the wind prior to the arrival of the Hurricane Irma in Caibarien, Cuba, September 8, 2017. REUTERS/Alexandre Meneghini

Irma Tears into Cuba’s Northern Coast, 5.6 mn in Florida Ordered to Evacuate

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 9, 2017 | World

Hurricane Irma walloped Cuba’s northern coast on Saturday, as Florida ordered 5.6 million people to evacuate after the storm killed 21 people in the eastern Caribbean and left a series of tiny islands devastated. Irma regained strength as a Category 5 storm late...

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Waves break over a dock as Hurricane Irma slammed across islands in the northern Caribbean on Wednesday, in Fajardo, Puerto Rico September 6, 2017. REUTERS/Alvin Baez

Irma Takes Aim at Florida after Leaving Deaths, Destruction in Caribbean

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 7, 2017 | World

Residents in parts of the Miami metro area are under mandatory orders to leave their homes Thursday morning as Hurricane Irma barrels toward the region after killing several people on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin and causing devastation on other islands as one...

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Powerful Category 4 storm Hurricane Irma barreled towards the Caribbean and the southern United States. (Reuters)

Category 4 Hurricane Irma Plows towards Caribbean, Southern US

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 5, 2017 | World

Powerful Hurricane Irma barreled towards the Caribbean and the southern United States on Tuesday as warnings of the Category 4 storm took effect in Leeward Islands, the British and US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The storm intensified as it surged forward with 150...