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Images from the village of Pokrovskoye in northern Kazakhstan show houses submerged in flood water after fast-melting snow caused the river Esil to reach unprecedented heights. Moscow and Astana have been battling rising rivers for more than five days, with both declaring a state of emergency and saying the floods have been the worst in decades. IMAGES
Activist Greta Thunberg says that a ruling by Europe's top rights court that Switzerland was not doing enough to tackle climate change is "only the beginning". SOUNDBITE
Europe's top rights court says Switzerland is not doing enough to tackle climate change, in the first such ruling on the responsibility of states in curbing global warming. SOUNDBITE
Images of flooded streets in Buenos Aires and its surroundings after a storm submerged parts of the Argentine capital, resulting in at least one death, flight delays, submerged vehicles, and business closures. IMAGES
French Prime Minister Gabriel Attal talks with residents of Blendecques, a town in France's northern region of Pas-de-Calais, as the nearby river Canche burst its banks again in a region already affected by several episodes of flooding. IMAGES
Greenpeace activists gather and inflate a giant octopus near the Eiffel Tower to protest against the presence of Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Store at the international One Planet - Polar Summit, an international summit dedicated to glaciers and the poles. Norway is considering opening up its waters to deep-sea mining. IMAGES
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