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Added on the 26/01/2023 21:10:40 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Residents of the village of Saint-Leger, northern France, try to clear the mud that has invaded streets and homes in this municipality, following a storm that brought heavy rain to the region causing mudslides. IMAGES
Gabriel Attal is visiting the Pas-de-Calais region of northern France to see the progress being made in cleaning up the river to reduce the risk of flooding like the one that hit the region hard at the end of 2023. "We're going to make sure that next autumn we don't experience the same thing as last autumn," said the French Prime Minister during his meeting with local representatives and residents. IMAGES
Cars drive through flooded water during heavy rainfall in Arbil, the capital of northern Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan Region. 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
Freezing rain hit the north and east of France on Wednesday morning, making for icy road and slow traffic. The snowfall expected during this cold spell, made rarer by climate change, remains measured. IMAGES
As cyclone Belal hits French island Reunion, broken tree branches litter the ground and residents hunker down in their homes under a strict lockdown in the town of Saint Gilles-les-Hauts. Belal isn't as intense of a storm as originally forecast and cyclone alert was downgraded from purple, its highest level, to red at 1pm local time to allow emergency services to intervene and assess the damage. IMAGES