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Floods wreak havoc in northeastern India

The swirling grey waters of the Brahmaputra, one of Asia's largest rivers, continued to wreak havoc in northeastern India's Assam state, displacing more than 2 million people, officials said on Tuesday.

Myanmar

More than 100 miners die in Myanmar jade mine landslide

"The jade workers were smothered by a wave of mud," the Myanmar Fire Service Department said on Facebook.

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Bridge partially collapses, level of River Po rises after heavy rains

Much of Italy is under alert for flooding from heavy rains, a problem exacerbated by a lack of maintenance of the country's many river beds.

Italy

At least six dead as extreme weather batters Europe

Storms across France, Italy and Greece over the weekend have killed at least six people, and left one more missing.

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Clean-up operation underway in Austria after big mudslide

A clean-up operation is underway in western Austria after a big mudslide.

China

Huge landslide kills one man and buries several cars

A monster landslide in Wuping County located in east China's Fujian Province swallowed several cars on Thursday, killing one man.

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Bolivia: residents watch as landslide sweeps away houses

A landslide on the outskirts of La Paz destroyed over a dozen houses, but there were no casualties as the area had been evacuated.

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Colombia: Heavy rains unleash deadly landslide

Heavy rains unleashed a landslide in a remote mountain town in southwestern Colombia on Sunday (April 21st), killing at least 14 people and injuring five more.

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Brazil: Deadly rains lash Rio de Janeiro

Torrential rains doused Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday (April 9), killing at least three people and sowing chaos in Brazil's second largest city, which declared a state of emergency.

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Bolivia landslides leave homes in peril

Heavy rains in La Paz caused the collapse of a road in the mountainous city on Thursday (April 04), leaving residential homes literally on a cliff edge

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Death toll rises to 15 in north China building collapse

The death toll from a building collapse in Xiangning County of Linfen City in north China's Shanxi Province that occurred due to a landslide climbed to 15 on Tuesday.

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Search for survivors of deadly mudslide

Rescuers in Brazil are searching for survivors of a mudslide in Rio state that has left at least ten people dead including a child

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Watch: Trapped bus passenger films landslide in Philippines

A woman trapped in a bus filmed falling rocks and trees being uprooted by a landslide on Sunday in Benguet, a remote mountainous region on the Luzon island in the Philippines.

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Storm clean-up operations continue near Genoa

New aerial footage shows extensive storm damage to the marina at Rapallo in Italy.

World News

More deaths in Philippines

At least 29 people are now known to have died in a landslide in the Philippines that came just days after Typhoon Mangkhut claimes the lives of at least 80 victims

Philippines

Dozens dead after typhoon in northern Philippines

Dozens more are missing near the mining town of Itogon after Typhoon Mangkhut hit on Saturday.

USA

Hawaii : Hurricane Lane downgraded to a Tropical Storm

It still managed to drench the island with torrential rains and cause severe flooding. There's more 'life-threatening' flash flooding expected, according to the National Weather Service

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Watch: a four-storey building collapse after a landslide

A four-storey building collapsed in Istanbul on Tuesday after a landslide on a construction site weakened its foundation.

Japan

At least 88 killed in floods across Japan

At least 88 killed in torrential rain and landslides across Japan with dozens still missing after more than 2,000 are temporarily stranded in the city of Kurashiki.

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Huge landslide cuts off road in southwest China

A rain-triggered landslide cut off a local road in Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County, southwest China’s Sichuan Province on Sunday.