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Added on the 23/08/2019 19:26:53 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
Firefighters combat wildfires in Brazil's Mato Grosso, an transition region between the Cerrado - tropical savanna - biome and the Amazon rainforest. IMAGES
Aerial images show destroyed houses and damage in the Brazilian city of Mucum, with a population of 5,000, which was submerged by flood waters and where 15 bodies were found. The death toll from the cyclone that unleashed torrential rain and flooding on southern Brazil rose to at least 31. IMAGES
Houses, cars are burnt to ashes in the city of Lahaina, on the Hawaiian island of Maui, after the deadliest fire in the region. IMAGES
Aerial images of hundreds of supporters of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro who protest in Brazil's capital to ask for federal intervention outside the Army headquarters. Bolsonaro "authorised" the transition to a new government, without acknowledging his defeat to leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. IMAGES
Truckers block a highway in Barra Mansa, Rio de Janeiro state, in an apparent protest after veteran leftist Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva defeated far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in a divisive presidential election in Brazil. IMAGES