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The migrant crisis is surging once again in Italy. 31 thousand people have either been rescued or landed on Italy's shores since the start of the year. That's four times more than the same period last year and the year before. The government in Rome has just declared a six-month state of emergency. And like many Italian prime ministers before her, Georgia Meloni has been unable to convince the rest of the EU to help. FRANCE 24's Seema Gupta is in Southern Italy. She tells us more on why the Italian government declared the state of emergency now.
Streets in Auckland are flooded as torrential rains devastates the New Zealand city, killing at least four people. Last week the country's largest city saw 249 millimetres of rainfall on Friday, smashing the previous record of 161mm in a 24-hour period.
Chad's President Mahamat Idriss Deby declared a state of emergency on Wednesday over flooding that is affecting more than a million people in the central African country. Floods are not uncommon during Chad's rainy season, which usually runs from May to October in its southern regions. But this year the rains came early and were the heaviest in decades.
Parts of northern Italy have already been rationing drinking water to try and deal with the problem.
Thousands of traumatised Syrians leave the rebel enclave of Aleppo as the UN Security Council votes to deploy observers to the battered city to monitor the evacuations.
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