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In the state of Rio Grande do Sul, workers struggle to recover from torrential downpours that left cities underwater.

An aerial view of the Ilhas neighbourhood of Porto Alegre, Brazil, as the river rises to local streets.

Experts say online campaigns have targeted the floods in Rio Grande do Sul with fake news aimed at discrediting Lula.

A man reaches across flood waters to a person leaning out of the window of the second story of a house, who appears to be lowering a ladder onto the roof below. There is a brown river of floodwater separating the two people where a road would ordinarily be.

For weeks, Panama was shaken by its largest protest movement in decades as residents decried a mining contract.

A protestor in Panama holding a sign saying 'Down with the Mining Contract'

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