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Floods swamp swathes of Russia and Kazakhstan but worse still to come

Orenburg, Russia Reuters Floods engulfed cities and towns across Russia and Kazakhstan on Wednesday after Europe’s third-longest river burst its banks, forcing about 110,000 people to evacuate and swamping parts of the Russian city of Orenburg. The deluge of melt water overwhelmed scores of settlements in Russia‘s Ural Mountains, Siberia, Volga and areas of Kazakhstan after major rivers such as the […]