Australia receives a bittersweet bushfires reprieve with floods, cyclone
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Many Australians were experiencing a bittersweet break from the threat of bushfires on Thursday, with heavy rain deluging many areas and a tropical cyclone forecast to hit the country’s northwest over the weekend.