At least 18 people have died in heavy flooding across 11 states in northern and northeastern Brazil, according to a statement Tuesday from Brazil’s national civil defense service.
Deadly floods strike northern Brazil
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Chinese military tackles drought crisis
The Chinese government brought out the big guns over the weekend to help fight its worst drought in 50 years. Soldiers loaded rockets with cloud-seeding chemicals over the weekend and fired them into the sky over drought-stricken areas. The clouds opened and it rained briefly in some of the hardest hit provinces in northern and central China, but not enough end to the drought