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To get to or from Courcoury in the Charente-Maritime department of France it's pretty simple - if you have a boat, or a tractor. Due to heavy rains and consequent flooding, the village of 700 inhabitants is transformed into an island, forcing local officials to organise "shuttles" to help them get in and out.
One tactic that help Ukraine to resist against russian troops is self-sabotage. The ukrainian army blew up key bridges and roads to block the russian advance. In Demydiv, they even flooded a village. FRANCE 24's Nadia Massih reports.
Residents are overcome with emotion as they survey the damage inside their flats after a missile landed near their 10-storey residential building in the Podilsk area in Kyiv, injuring several people.
Aerial images from the National Office of Risk and Disaster Management (BNGRC) showing the village of Vohipeno in Madagascar under water after Cyclone Emnati hit the island, which has already been hit by several tropical storms and a cyclone in the past month.
Members of the Palestinian civil defence evacuate residents from inundated houses after torrential rains hit the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza strip.
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