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Drone images of homes destroyed by a landslide provoked by rains and water runoff in a hillside neighbourhood of La Paz, Bolivia. IMAGES
Heavy rain in southern Brazil has caused a huge landslide along the RS-446 national highway. The rivers of southern Brazil are once again in flood as rescue operations intensify and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva admits that the authorities were "unprepared" for a disaster of this scale. More than 600,000 people have been displaced by the heavy rain, flooding and mudslides that have ravaged the south of the state of Rio Grande do Sul for around two weeks. IMAGES
Firefighters from the ICMBio (Chico Mendes Institute for Biodiversity Conservation), Brazil's federal protected areas agency, use helicopters and make firebreaks to combat a blaze in the Amazon rainforest. Nearly 3,000 forest fires were registered in the Brazilian Amazon in February 2024, the highest for any February since records began in 1999, and made more likely by climate change, according to experts. IMAGES
Emergency services attend a flooded housing estate in Brechin, Scotland, at the epicentre of flooding following Storm Babet. Police say the body of a 57-year-old woman has been recovered after she was swept into a river in Angus, while some residents remain trapped in their homes, according to local councillor Jill Scott. IMAGES
Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro arrives at Rio de Janeiro's Santos Dumont airport, from Brasilia, as his trial resumes before the Brazilian electoral courts, a crucial date for the far-right ex-president, threatened with eight years of ineligibility barely six months after leaving office with a heavy heart. IMAGES
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