The Brazilian Army and Navy resumed rescue operations in Brazil's southernmost state's capital city on Thursday (May 24) as a preventive measure after rains intensified this week causing water levels in the streets to rise. 

On April 29, torrential rains poured down on Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul.

Rains returned to Rio Grande do Sul on Friday as the death toll from historic floods in Brazil's southernmost state reached 113.

Residents of a flooded city in Brazil's state of Rio Grande do Sul faced the huge scale of devastation in the region.

China has condemned "external interference" in Venezuela's elections by the US and France after Caracas decided to bar a pro-West opposition candidate from July's presidential vote.

Hundreds of houses remain under water, and roads are still submerged after heavy rainfall in Brazil's Acre state triggered severe flooding of the area.

Brazil’s president repeats his recent assertion that the Israeli regime is committing genocide in Gaza.