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Three-quarters of the country had no electricity overnight and many parts of Jamaica's western side are under water, with homes destroyed by strong winds after the hurricane tore across the island with catastrophic force.

The company's Azure cloud computing platform, which underpins large parts of the internet, reported a "degradation of some services" at 1600 GMT.

Forecasters expect that parts of Jamaica, an island of 2.8 million people, could be uninhabitable for weeks or months.

According to the report, scientists have identified roughly two dozen parts of the global climate system that could reach tipping points.

A line has been crossed, and two people in a once-committed, monogamous relationship find themselves at odds while living in entirely different parts of the world.