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Philippine coastguards loading floating oil containment barriers, suction skimmer, and oil dispersant onto a boat in the port of Limay as as they prepare to go out to sea to contain spill after a Philippine-flagged tanker carrying 1.4 million litres of industrial fuel oil sank off Manila on Thursday. IMAGES
People use boats to navigate through Porto Alegre after unprecedented flooding turned the streets of the Brazilian metropolis into rivers. By Sunday, floods had killed at least 78 people in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul with dozens missing and some 115,000 forced to leave their homes. IMAGES
Guyanese Foreign Minister Hugh Hilton Todd and Venezuelan counterpart Yvan Gil meet in Brasilia to discuss the discuss the simmering crisis on their border over the disputed oil-rich Essequibo region. IMAGES
Residents of Duque de Caxias in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro save their belongings after heavy rains flooded their homes. The rainstorm hit particularly hard the northern parts of Rio, where 11 people died due to landslides, drownings, and electrocutions. Firefighters are still searching for a woman who went missing after her car fell into a river. IMAGES
Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is greeted by UAE counterpart Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as he arrives at COP28 in Dubai. IMAGES
Volunteers and residents help clear up the locality of Mucum after a cyclone triggered devastating floods and landslides in Brazil's state of Rio Grande do Sul. At least 42 people have died and some 150,000 people have been affected by the cyclone, many of whom have lost their homes or face isolation from landslides that washed away roads and bridges. IMAGES
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