Southern Brazil floods claim 57 lives, displace 70,000 In southern Brazil, devastating floods and mudslides have resulted in the tragic loss of at least 57 lives and forced nearly 70,000 people to flee their homes, according to the country's civil defense agency. "The dad, the mother and their little son were martyred," said Abdelmoneim Chukair, the municipality chief of Mays al-Jabal, describing the impact of an Israeli strike on a village that claimed the lives of three civilians. "The situation is absolutely unprecedented, the worst in the history of our state," declared...