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WELLINGTON (AFP) - A New Zealand Air Force Hercules carrying emergency supplies and two air ambulances arrived in cyclone-torn Niue as more details of the devastation, death and injury on the tiny Pacific island emerged. Niue government secretary Cecelia Talagi said the 1,500 islanders were reeling from the ferocity of Cyclone Heta which ripped through on Tuesday night, killing one woman, and seriously injuring her baby and a foreign volunteer worker, and there were reports of several other injuries. "Yesterday morning we woke up to a scene of so much devastation, it was just unbelievable. Cyclone Heta was just so...