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Flooding

  • Volunteers clear a street from mud in flood-hit Paiporta, Valencia

    Deleted tweets, missed warnings and calls for the ‘hangman’: the bitter political fallout from Spain’s floods

    The region’s president responds to criticisms that he was slow to act by attacking the prime minister
  • Thousands call for Valencia's leader to resign after deadly floods – video

  • Protesters marching

    Thousands call for Valencia’s leader to resign over deadly floods response

  • A man in Cuba cooking in the dark

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    Weather Tracker: Hurricane Rafael triggers nationwide blackout in Cuba

    Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica and Nicaragua also reeling after fifth major hurricane of season causes landslides and flooding
  • Mud and debris in Aldaia, west of Valencia

    Make oil and gas companies foot the bill for Valencia’s floods

    Letter: Eva Saldaña of Greenpeace Spain says the industry knew about climate change for more than six decades
  • Spanish floods: before and after footage shows the scale of destruction in Valencia – video

    More than 200 people have died in floods that the Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has described as the worst natural disaster in the country's recent history
  • Firefighters at an exit of the Bonaire shopping centre car park, filled with mud and debris

    ‘It can lead to chaos’: false claims and hoaxes surge as Spain’s floods recede

    People urged to stop flow of misinformation as fire department says it is hindering work to save citizens
  • A man trudges through a flooded street in Gardi Sugdub. After surviving the Spanish colonisation, the Guna people face another existential challenge as the climate crisis threatens their homeland. Rising sea levels have already forced the relocation of around 300 families from the island of Gardi Sugdub to a new mainland community called Isberyala.

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    Vanishing act: Panama’s Guna people forced to move as the sea swallows their island – in pictures

  • Juan Bordera

    I tried to warn Valencia’s government about flooding, but it didn’t listen

    Juan Bordera
  • People clean the mud off the street after floods in Paiporta, near Valencia, Spain.

    At least 89 people remain missing after floods in eastern Spain

  • Damaged buildings in Chiva

    ‘There’s so much confrontation’: Valencians sick of political bickering after Spain’s floods

  • Zoe Williams

    Unlike the Spanish, the British aren’t pelting their royals with mud. But patience is running out …

    Zoe Williams
    From Valencia’s floods to Prince William’s rents, any reminder of the gap between the haves and the have-nots can wipe out centuries of deference, writes Zoe Williams
  • 'These cars kill Valencians' stencilled in white on the side of a red vehicle

    Edinburgh activists target SUVs in solidarity with Spain’s flood victims

    Tyre Extinguishers group stencils ‘These cars kill Valencians’ on 4x4s in city to highlight SUVs’ role in climate crisis
  • A volunteer walks on a muddy street as he leaves Paiporta, in the region of Valencia, eastern Spain.

    Spain floods: searchers scour car parks and malls amid fears death toll will rise

    Day after king and PM pelted by angry residents, search focuses on areas where people could have been trapped
  • King Felipe VI is heckled by residents during his visit to Paiporta

    Mud and insults thrown as Spanish king and PM visit flood-hit town

    King Felipe heckled in Paiporta, one of the municipalities worst affected by last week’s floods
  • Search and rescue operations in Benetússer

    ‘After three days we found her alive’: the ‘miracle’ rescues after Spanish floods

    Media reported stories of survivors like the woman trapped in her car in a flooded underpass for 72 hours
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    • Mud flung at Spain's king as clean-up and search efforts continue in flood aftermath – video

    • Drone footage shows scale of devastation caused by Spain floods – video

  • Soldiers in street cleaning away mud.

    Spain floods: 10,000 troops and police drafted in to deal with disaster

    Pedro Sánchez orders largest peacetime troop deployment to deal with flooding that has killed 211 people
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