Red alerts have been issued for nearly 3,000 cities across Brazil, which is experiencing an unprecedented heatwave. On Sunday, Rio de Janeiro recorded a temperature of 42.5 degrees Celsius – a record for November – and high humidity on Tuesday made it feel like 58.5 degrees Celsius.
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A Stolen 300-year-old painting returned to museum
A Baroque landscape paintings lost during World War II were returned to Germany on Thursday, October 20 2023. The artwork by 18th century Austrian artist Johann Franz Nepomuk Lauterer was hand over to a German museum.
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Train derailment near Cairo kills at least two passengers and injures 16
At least two people were killed, and 16 others were injured after a train derailed north of Cairo on Tuesday. The Ministry of Transport said The train crashed into a train station platform in the city of Qalyub. About 20 ambulances rushed to the scene to assist the wounded. Egyptian transport minister, Kamel El-Wazir has ordered a committee to be formed to find out what caused the derailment and to identify those responsible and limit the damage.
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Multi-story building collapses in South Africa, killed at least six people
At least six people have died and 48 so far unaccounted for after a multi-story building collapsed Monday afternoon in the South African city of George.
