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Dozens of residents from the village of Pahoa on Hawaii’s Big Island are preparing to watch their homes be engulfed by a slow-moving finger of lava.

Dozens of Haitian migrants were abandoned on barren islands off Puerto Rico in three separate incidents in recent days, the latest indication of the growing smuggling problem in the Caribbean.

Suspicion is immediately focusing on the Islamist group Boko Haram as word emerges about another horrific attack on school children in Nigeria.