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Dozens dead or missing after flash floods hit southern India

At least 17 people are dead and many others missing with the country’s Met office saying more heavy rains are expected in several southern areas on Saturday.

Canada's province of British Columbia declares emergency in wake of floods

The state of emergency will include travel restrictions so the transport of essential goods medical and emergency services will reach the communities that need them.

Sri Lanka grapples with deaths and displacements amid heavy rains

Floods and mudslides have killed at least 16 people and displaced some 5,000 others, with the worst affected areas in and around the island’s tea-growing Central Highlands.

Death toll from Nepal floods, landslides tops 100 with dozens still missing

Authorities are still trying to ascertain the number of displaced and the full extent of damage in the wake of this week's heavy rains, floods and landslides in the Himalayan nation.

Dozens killed as heavy rains batter northern India

Landslides and floods caused by cloudbursts claimed at least 41 lives, and several others have gone missing in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand. Indian authorities said.

Heavy rains, floods leave several dead, missing in India's Kerala state

At least 25 people killed and more than a dozen others are missing after extremely heavy rain triggered massive landslides in central Kerala state's Kottayam and Idukki districts.

Excessive flooding in Western Europe was caused by climate change

European countries are nine times more likely to be affected by devastating floods as the climate change risk increases, a new study says.

Tennessee flooding leaves several dead and missing

The severe flooding following record rains killed at least 22 and left dozens of others missing in the southern US state of Tennessee, officials say.

India's monsoon death toll swells as rain lashes east

India's monsoon death toll rises above 230 as experts warn climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of annual monsoon storms between June and September.

Death toll rises from India torrential rains, scores trapped in landslides

Officials say rescuers were unable to reach affected villages quickly, with approach roads cut off by overflowing rivers and landslides.

Belgium hit by severe floods as stormy weather set to continue

Namur and Walloon Brabant provinces southeast of the capital city Brussels were particularly hit by devastating floods that left 36 people dead and seven missing last week.

Thousands evacuated as monsoon rains flood parts of Philippines

The Philippines' national disaster agency said that about 15,000 people, most of them from areas prone to flooding in Manila and those in other low-lying provinces, had been moved into evacuation centres.