At least 12 people have died, five are missing and nearly 3,000 have been left homeless after an “extratropical cyclone” hit Brazil’s Rio Grande Do Sul. Traveling to the region’s hardest hit regions, government authorities have reinforced the role of the state’s relief structure and called upon the solidarity of the population.
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Hilary storm begins battering southern California
The US National Hurricane Center says the centre of tropical storm Hilary has now moved into southern California. The storm has winds up to 50mph (85km/h), warning that catastrophic and life-threatening flooding is likely in parts of the south-western US and Mexico’s Baja California peninsula through Monday.
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France’s Macron cancels trip over riots as family buries teenage
French President Emmanuel Macron has postponed a trip to Germany due to begin on Sunday after a fourth night of rioting in cities across France, as family and friends buried the teenager whose killing by police unleashed the unrest. The family of Nahel M, a 17-year-old of Algerian and Moroccan descent who was shot by a police officer during a traffic stop on Tuesday, held a private funeral at a mosque in Nanterre, a Paris suburb.
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Mass fight breaks out at Russian gas field
Nine people are in hospital after a fight between about 300 migrant workers from Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan at Gazprom’s Kovykta gas field in East Siberia. Several videos of the incident were posted on the Russian social network VK, which suggested the brawl began about noon local time on 23 June in a queue near a canteen.
