Brazil has withdrawn its ambassador to Israel after months of tensions between the two countries over the war in Gaza, according to the country's gazette.
Unprecedented flooding in Brazilβs Rio Grande do Sul has upended transportation, closing the airport in the capital Porto Alegre and segments of major highways.
Two men have been reported dead from the same waterborne bacterial disease in southern Brazil, where flooding over around a two-week period forced over 600,000 people from their homes.