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Duke Energy this summer will ask North Carolina regulators to raise the rates consumers pay on their electricity bills for the first time in four years.

Last year sometimes felt like one natural catastrophe after another. Now, reinsurer Munich Re says there were some 750 natural disasters, suggesting it was a particularly bad year.

After various rounds of voting were annulled, canceled, rescheduled and challenged, Haiti's electoral council has declared businessman Jovenel Moise the winner. He'll be sworn in on Feb. 7.

Haiti rolls out an effort to vaccinate 800,000 people in parts of the country devastated by Hurricane Matthew.

When Hurricane Matthew hit North Carolina last month, it flooded more than a dozen manure lagoons at hog farms. Environmentalists say it shows that these farms are too risky for the state.

The co-founder of Partners In Health says the damage from Hurricane Matthew seemed worse than that of the 2010 earthquake. And he couldn't get over the way people reacted.

If you're thinking now's the time to hop on a plane and get involved in disaster relief, groups on the ground have some advice.

The long-postponed vote, which was most recently canceled because of Hurricane Matthew, will be held November 20. Haiti's interim president has already outstayed his mandate to be in office.