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Toll from Indonesia flash floods rises to 89; over 6,800 evacuated to temporary shelters in country's Papua province
•The government has issued a 14-day state of emergency in Papua, which shares a border with independent Papua New Guinea on an island just north of Australia
Indonesia earthquake: Over 800 left dead after 7.5 magnitude quake strikes archipelago nation
Fp Staff •Mass graves were being readied for victims in Indonesia in a desperate attempt to stave off disease.
Toll in Indonesia volcano tsunami rises to 281; doctors, rescuers battle heavy rain as hunt for survivors continues
•Doctors worked to help survivors, and people searched on debris-strewn beaches on Monday for more victims from a deadly tsunami that smashed into houses, hotels and other buildings without warning in the darkness along an Indonesian strait.
Indonesia earthquake-tsunami: Antonio Guterres visits disaster-ravaged Palu, says UN will support rescue and relief efforts
•Antonio Guterres on Friday visited the disaster-ravaged Indonesian city of Palu, where an earthquake and tsunami killed 2,000 people and left thousands more missing.
Indonesia earthquake-tsunami toll climbs past 2,000; search operations to end on 11 October, says disaster agency
•Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said authorities will hold prayers to mark the end of the search in Indonesia's Petobo, Balaroa and Jono Oge areas.
Indonesia earthquake-tsunami toll reaches 1,944; search ops to continue till 11 Oct, govt to declare areas in Palu 'mass graves'
•The death toll from the twin disaster on Sulawesi island that erased whole suburbs in Palu has reached 1,944.
Indonesia earthquake-tsunami toll climbs to 1,763, officials fear thousands more may have been killed
•Two of the hardest-hit neighbourhoods in Indonesia's Palu city- Petobo and Balaroa - could contain thousands more victims, swallowed up by ground that engulfed whole communities in a process known as liquefaction.
Indonesia earthquake-tsunami toll reaches 1,571; authorities issue public health warning after rescuers recover corpses from Palu
•Indonesia had been reluctant to accept outside help at first but as the scale of the disaster became clear the government agreed to allow in foreign aid.
After Indonesia's tsunami-earthquake disaster claims 1,400 lives, scientists hunt for answers
Afp Relaxnews •The 7.5 magnitude earthquake hit off Sulawesi island Friday and sent destructive waves charging into the coast, reducing buildings in Palu to rubble and sweeping people to their deaths.
Indonesia earthquake-tsunami toll climbs to 1,424; nearly 113 people still missing, reports disaster management board
Ians •The large majority of the deaths were in Indonesia's Palu city, home to 350,000 people.