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Flood waters receded in much of southern Louisiana on Wednesday, after a days-long deluge that inundated vast areas, claimed at least 11 lives and impacted some 40,000 homes.
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The death toll from historic flooding in Louisiana climbed to eight on Tuesday, as the expanding flood zone prompted authorities to declare disasters in 20 parishes of the southeastern US state.
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Floods ravaged the US state of Louisiana Monday, leaving six people dead and thousands more forced to flee rising waters after days of catastrophic rainstorms.
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Peshawar -
Overnight flash floods killed at least 43 people in northern Pakistan, the majority in a remote village that did not receive an evacuation warning before the waters hit washing away most of the settlement, officials said Sunday.
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The rain-swollen River Seine in Paris began to recede Saturday after reaching its highest level in three decades, easing fears after floods sent the Louvre and other riverside museums scrambling to protect their treasures. From a peak of 6.
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The trappings of a dream Paris holiday -- a visit to the Louvre, cruising the Seine under the twinkling lights of the Eiffel Tower -- have been drowned under torrential rainfall this week.
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Paris' Louvre and Orsay museums shut on Friday to remove art treasures from their basements as the swollen River Seine neared its highest level in three decades.
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Paris' world-famous Louvre and Musee d'Orsay museums shut on Friday to rush valuable artworks out of their basements, as the rain-swollen River Seine reached its highest level in three decades.
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Floods in Germany and France have killed at least 10 people and forced thousands from their homes, officials said Thursday as Paris' Louvre museum announced it would move treasures out of reach of the swollen Seine.
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Colombo -
Sri Lankan soldiers pulled more bodies from landslides and distributed food and water to hundreds of thousands of residents camped in shelters on Sunday after major floods hit the island.
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Foreign aid began arriving in Sri Lanka Saturday, bringing help to half a million people forced out of their homes by rains and landslides that have killed at least 71 in a week of extreme weather wreaking havoc in South Asia.
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Colombo -
Desperate Sri Lankans clambered onto rubber dinghies and makeshift rafts Friday to escape monster floods in the capital Colombo as officials said half a million people had fled their homes across the island.
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Aranayaka -
Sri Lankan troops were digging through tonnes of mud Thursday to search for more than 100 people reported missing after landslides buried two villages, claiming at least 24 lives.
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Sri Lankan troops were digging through tonnes of mud Thursday to search for more than 100 people reported missing after landslides buried two villages, claiming at least 24 lives.
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Sri Lankan troops were digging through tonnes of mud Thursday to search for more than 100 people reported missing after landslides buried two villages, claiming at least 24 lives.
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Nairobi -
Kenyan rescuers pulled a seven-month-old baby alive from the rubble of a six-storey building on Tuesday, four days after the block collapsed during heavy rains killing at least 23 people.
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The death toll in the collapse of a six-storey building in Nairobi rose to 21 on Monday after four more bodies were pulled from the rubble of the residential structure that gave way during weekend storms.
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At least 16 people were killed when a six-storey residential building due for demolition collapsed in Nairobi in torrential weekend storms, local authorities said Sunday.
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At least 12 people died when a building collapsed in Nairobi, officials said Saturday, as rescuers scrambled to find more survivors after torrential storms which killed another seven people.
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Buenos Aires -
Severe storms and flooding across South America's "southern cone" have killed at least 12 people and forced thousands to evacuate, with more bad weather on the way.
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Washington -
Flooding in and around the US city of Houston has killed at least five people and prompted mass rescues, reports said.
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Peshawar -
Rescuers were battling Monday to reach thousands of people stranded by floods and landslides in Pakistan's northwest and parts of Kashmir, officials said, as the death toll rose to 55.
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Lisbon -
A cyclist died in floods in northern Portugal after being swept away by a river, emergency services said on Sunday, as storms battered the country.
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London -
The body of a kayaker who went missing during Storm Frank was recovered from a river on Thursday as Britain's battle with localised flooding stretched into the New Year.
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Wading through knee-deep floods, 12-year-old Joana Yambao pushes her infant sister in a black wash basin along the surface of the filthy water in a typhoon-hit Philippine village where residents have little to celebrate this Christmas.
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Eighteen hospital patients died overnight in flood-hit Tamil Nadu, Indian health authorities said Friday, with local media reporting their ventilators stopped working when the power failed.
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Chennai, the capital city of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, witnessed a record-breaking 374 mm of rainfall in 24 hours on December 2.
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India has deployed the army and air force to rescue flood-hit residents in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, where at least 71 people have died in around a week of torrential rains.
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Seoul -
Flash floods caused by heavy rain killed 40 people in North Korea's northeastern border area over the weekend, the International Federation of the Red Cross said Wednesday.
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The death toll from severe flooding across Myanmar has topped 100, state media reported Monday, with nearly one million people affected as fears intensify for the country's crucial rice bowl region.
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Fields are under more than five feet of water in Corey's Mill, close to the A1(M) Motorway
Elephants stranded on the wall at the Royal Elephant Kraal in Ayutthaya Elephant Stay
Flooded street in Beijing, China, July 21, 2012 Video screen capture
Colorado: Around 200 people are said to be unaccounted for in eastern Colorado. Flood waters have toppled buildings, washed out roads and bridges and overwhelmed farmland Euronews
Emergency services personnel are carried by tractor at dusk through flooded land in the village of Burrowbridge in south west England February 7, 2014. Many areas of the Somerset Levels have been underwater for over a month © Reuters / Toby Melville
Damage from the floods in Russia. Video screen capture
A photo of a partially submerged truck in Mobile, Alabama, due to Hurricane Isaac Via Instagram user chass_d
Rescues are continuing as more rain continues to fall. Twitter
A home in the neighbourhood of Elbow Park following heavy flooding in Calgary, Alberta. ndy van der Raadt
Victims of super typhoon Bopha FB
Victoria station in central London during heavy rain Frankie Roberto
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Russia is devastated by floods. Video screen capture
Emergency services personnel help local residents as they travel in a boat along a flooded road from the village of Muchelney on the Somerset Levels, near Langport in south west England January 30, 2014 © Reuters / Toby Melville
The Krasnodar region of Russia has been flooded again by torrential rains on August 22, 2012. Video screen capture
A police vehicle drives past emergency flood pumps near the village of Moorland in south west England February 7, 2014 © Reuters / Toby Melville
Heavy flooding washed out this section of Interstate 20 near the California-Arizona border. Fortunately, the man in this pickup truck survived. YouTube screen grab
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