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Added on the 17/12/2021 09:18:45 - Copyright : AFPTV - First images
The residents of Blendecques, a town in northern France, are trying to cope with further flooding caused by the 'exceptional flooding of the Aa', two months after the November floods. IMAGES
Heavy rain and floods have left river islands and swathes of land in the province of Corrientes in northern Argentina underwater, causing deaths and forcing thousands to evacuate. Officials have laid the blame for the extreme weather on the El Nino phenomenon, is typically associated with warming ocean surface temperatures in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. IMAGES
Water overflowing from canals struggles to drain away from the fields in the countryside near Ravenna, as Italy struggles with floods described as the country's worst in a century. The disaster has killed more than a dozen people and left thousands stranded in waterlogged homes or in evacuation centres. IMAGES
Motorists push stalled vehicles after heavy rainfall flooded roads in Iraq's central city of Hilla. At least three people, including a woman, have died by electrocution in three separate accidents due to waterflood in the city. IMAGES
Smoke billows on the horizon in the village of Altrun Kupri, in the Sherawa region, south of Arbil in Iraq's Kurdistan, where a base of the Kurdistan Freedom Party is located. Two people were killed in Iranian cross-border strikes against military bases in Iraqi Kurdistan belonging to the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran, according to the KDPI. Iranian artillery fire has hit border districts of Iraqi Kurdistan on several occasions in recent days. The fire comes amid tensions generated by the death in Iranian morality police custody of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini earlier this month after she was arrested in Tehran for allegedly breaching the Islamic republic's strict rules on hijab headscarves and modest clothing. IMAGES
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