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Images of monster floods and waterlogged streets in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Floods have devastated the state of Rio Grande do Sul, of which Porto Alegre is the capital, leaving at least 60 people dead and 70,000 evacuees. IMAGES
A Spanish court sentences former Brazil international Dani Alves to four and a half years in prison after finding him guilty of raping a young woman at a Barcelona nightclub in December 2022. IMAGES of the High Court of Justice of Catalonia in Barcelona
"The United Nations Security Council, the primary platform for questions of global peace, is deadlocked by geopolitical fissures. This is not the first time the Council has been divided, but it is the worst. Today's dysfunction is deeper and more dangerous," says UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in his speech to the General Assembly presenting his 2024 priorities. SOUNDBITE
Crosses are placed outside Brazil's National Congress in Brasilia in a tribute to the victims of the Brumadinho dam collapse on the fifth anniversary of the tragedy. January 25 marks five years of the rupture of the dam at the Corrego do Feijao Mine, owned by the mining company Vale. It was holding more than 11 million cubic meters (nearly three billion gallons) of mining waste when it collapsed, unleashing a brown sea of sludge. IMAGES
Firefighters work at the site of a blaze in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands, where flames are reaching the major road crossing the area. IMAGES
People queue with plastic jerrycans at a water filling point in Gaza City as war rages on. The impoverished Palestinian territory, under a crippling Israeli-led blockade for years and besieged since war erupted on October 7, suffers severe shortages of food, water and fuel, and medical supplies are scarce. IMAGES