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The death toll from floods in eastern Libya is expected to soar dramatically, with 10,000 people reported missing, the Red Cross warns. "The death toll is huge, it might reach thousands," says Tamer Ramadan of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies told reporters in Geneva via video link from Tunis. SOUNDBITE
Floodwaters cover a city in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's southernmost region, where the death toll of an extratropical cyclone has risen to 27. IMAGES
A Covid-19 testing site at the Miami Beach Convention Center in Florida after the global death toll from the coronavirus pandemic has surpassed one million since the virus emerged in China in December 2019, according to a new AFP tally based on official sources at 2230 GMT Sunday. Miami-Dade county has had the second most infections of any county in the US, according to Johns Hopkins University. IMAGES
Streets are busy with people going about their daily business in Sao Paulo's 25 de Março neighbourhood as the country continues to ease lockdown measures and registers record daily numbers of deaths from COVID-19, surging past 90,000. IMAGES
The United States has now recorded more than 100,000 coronavirus-related deaths, Johns Hopkins University reports -- a somber milestone and by far the highest total in the world. IMAGES
Brazil, the hardest-hit Latin American country in the coronavirus pandemic, has surpassed 10,000 deaths, according to figures released Saturday by the Ministry of Health. The country has now recorded 10,627 deaths and 155,939 confirmed cases. VIDEOGRAPHIC