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The riverbed of the Jialing river in China's southwestern city of Chongqing, a tributary of the Yangtze river, runs dry as the country is hit by record temperatures and droughts. IMAGES
Heavy rains in central Chile over the weekend cause severe flooding, leaving hundreds homeless and hundreds of others stranded in their homes as emergency crews go into recovery mode. Mana Rabiee reports.
People evacuate through flooded streets after heavy rains inundated the Chilean city of Talca, 200 km south of Santiago. IMAGES
Californian fisher Sarah Bates would ordinarily be working out at sea, but a ban on fishing salmon has confined her boat to the harbor. "It's a little demoralizing" she says, "not to have our fishery this year". The ban, which lasts until September, is aimed at helping the salmon recover, as a decades-long drought has reduced their river habitat and caused numbers to plunge.
Trees and roofs blown off, power lines down, vines crushed: in the small-town of Preuilly, in central France, inhabitants are particularly hard hit by the violent storm that have swept through the department. IMAGES
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