Mauritius has grounded flights and shut its stock exchange as tropical Cyclone Freddy approaches, posing a “direct threat” to the Indian Ocean island. A Class III cyclone warning was in force ...

Mauritius was battening down the hatches on Monday as an intense tropical cyclone moved closer, with flights cancelled and normal life at a standstill in the Indian Ocean island nation.

PORT LOUIS/ANTANANARIVO Feb 20 (Reuters) - Mauritius grounded flights and shut its stock exchange as tropical cyclone Freddy approached the island in the Indian Ocean on Monday, while emergency ...

a category 3 cyclone carrying gusts of up to 70 kilometers an hour, was on Thursday deemed a "direct threat" to the Indian ...

PORT LOUIS, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Mauritius has reopened its international airport as the threat from Cyclone Garance eased, airport authorities said on Friday, two days after closing it. Airports of ...

The Indian Ocean tourist meccas of Mauritius and La Reunion braced Thursday for an intense tropical storm, Cyclone Garance, which was labelled a "direct threat" to the islands. Mauritius shut its ...

PORT LOUIS - Mauritius removed a maximum cyclone alert warning on Jan 16 as it assessed the devastation wrought by Tropical Storm Belal on the Indian Ocean island nation. Belal has claimed the ...

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Cyclone Garance barrelled across Reunion Island ... the storm earlier forced the closure of the main airport on nearby Mauritius. One woman in her 50s was probably sucked into a sewer pipe and ...

Rescue workers are racing to save lives and repair damage wrought by Tropical Cyclone Chido in a string of islands across the southwestern Indian Ocean. The official death toll in the French ...