Flooding

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Southern Brazil floods swallow Rio Grande do Sul towns as record autumn rains overwhelm a still-recovering region

A week of relentless rain across southern Brazil has killed at least 31 people, forced more than 84,000 from their homes and submerged farmland and small towns across the Rio Grande do Sul interior, with the Guaiba River once again rising past historic crest levels in Porto Alegre.

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Record rains push Mississippi and Ohio rivers into major flood stage as spring storms stall over Midwest

A near-stationary front dumped more than a foot of rain across parts of Missouri, Illinois and Kentucky over four days, sending the Mississippi and Ohio rivers into major flood stage and prompting mandatory evacuations in nine counties.

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Danube floods force mass evacuations across Central Europe as spring snowmelt meets record rainfall

Surging Danube and Tisza floodwaters drove more than 38,000 people from their homes across Hungary, Slovakia and northern Serbia on Saturday as a week of Alpine snowmelt combined with the heaviest late-April rains in decades to push river gauges to near-record highs.

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