The Latest Breaking News on Floods

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Floodwaters are receding in Pakistan's worst-hit southern Sindh province, officials said Friday, a potentially bright sign in an ongoing crisis that has left hundreds of thousands of people homeless in the impoverished South Asian country. The Indus River, which had swelled until earlier this month, was now rushing at “normal”…

Irrigation authorities releasing 9.91 lakh cusecs into the sea

At least 10 people in Italy have died after flash flood swept through towns and villages following a "water bomb" of rainfall. Around 16 inches of rain fell in just two to three hours on Thursday.

Amanda Bilal-Jones' son has been sleeping on the couch since the family's home was flooded at the end of August

Experts say the “fingerprint” of climate change is on Pakistan’s devastating floods after analysis found a link with extreme rainfall.

Two children, including a boy swept out of his mother’s arms, were among those still missing

Floodwaters triggered by heavy rainfall have swept through towns in a hilly region of central-east Italy

A vast swath of western Alaska could see flooding and high winds as the remnants of Typhoon Merbok move toward the Bering Sea region

Officials say weeks of floodwaters are now receding in Pakistan’s worst-hit southern Sindh province after a deadly summer in which monsoons killed hundreds of thousands of people

Local authorities said they did not expect downpour that was ‘like an earthquake’