India, May 6 -- 75 dead in Brazil floods; evacuations in flood-hit Houston; heat dries up Vietnam while 14 die in Indonesia due to floods and landslides

Extreme weather has struck four areas on opposite sides of the world. Floods, landslides and searing heat have claimed lives, destroyed property and broken records in yet another instance of the ongoing climate emergency.

The Rio Grande do Sul state in southern Brazil, bordering Argentina and Uruguay, has witnessed its worst floods in 80 years, according to the Brazilian Geological Service, reported news agency Associated Press ( AP ).

The agency reported that a dam at a hydroelectric plant between the cities of Bento Goncalves and Cotipora partially collapsed on May 2 while a bridge w...