A 26-hour status orange rain warning will cover counties Cork, Kerry, Waterford, Wicklow and Wexford from 10pm on Tuesday

Minister for Housing Darragh O’Brien travelled to New Ross to meet business owners hit by the flash flooding.

Met Éireann extended a status orange thunderstorm weather warning to 10pm on Monday night

Flash floods in Sudan have killed more than 100 people this summer and inundated over 100,000 homes, compounding the country’s already dire economic situation, officials said.

Flash floods triggered by week-long monsoon rain that has hit north-western Pakistan have brought the death toll to 48. Hundreds of homes have been damaged or swept away.

Flash floods triggered by heavy rains have killed 15 people and damaged scores of houses in Pakistan’s scenic northwestern Swat Valley, a spokesman said.

Floodwater reached the toes of a famous Buddhist statue for the first time in decades as China suffered flooding and landslides from unusually heavy seasonal rains and a typhoon that came ashore on its southern coast.

A mudslide triggered by heavy monsoon rain and flooding has killed at least 12 people and buried 20 homes of tea plantation workers in southern India. Some 12 people have been rescued, police officer Eldhose Madhai said on Friday.

Leader Kim Jong Un visited parts of southern North Korea where days of torrential rains have flooded hundreds of houses and vast areas of agricultural land, state media reported. It is rare for Mr Kim to visit a flood-stricken site.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have written to officials at an Indian national reserve to express concern about devastating floods in the area, authorities said.

More than 9. 6 million people across South Asia have been affected by severe floods, with hundreds of thousands struggling to get food and medicine, officials and aid organisations said.

Authorities in central China have blasted a dam to release surging waters behind it amid widespread flooding across the country that has claimed scores of lives.

At least 14 people have died in the latest round of seasonal rains and flooding in southern China, as soldiers and workers built makeshift barriers with sandbags and rocks to keep the Yangtze River and its tributaries at bay.

The death toll from flash floods in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province rose to 32 on Thursday with 16 people still missing, officials said.

Floods and landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 213 people across south Asia over the past month, officials said on Thursday.

The death toll from a flash flood in Indonesia’s South Sulawesi province rose to 21 on Wednesday with two people still missing, an official said.

Six more people have died in floods and mudslides in north-eastern India’s Assam state, officials said. It takes the death toll to 77 from more than two weeks of heavy rains that caused one of Asia’s largest rivers to overflow.

Flooding and mudslides have stranded hundreds of people in scenic hot springs and hiking areas in central Japan.

Torrential rain that caused deadly floods in southern Japan was moving north-east on Wednesday, battering large areas of Japan’s main island, swelling more rivers, triggering mudslides and destroying houses and roads.

The death toll from days of heavy rain and flooding in southern Japan rose to 50 on Tuesday with another dozen people still missing, officials said.

The death toll from three days of heavy rain and flooding in southern Japan rose to 40 on Monday as rescuers searched for 10 missing people and rain threatened wider areas of the main island of Kyushu, officials said.

Deep floodwaters and the risk of more mudslides that have left at least 34 people confirmed or presumed dead have hampered search and rescue operations in southern Japan.

French authorities deployed about 1,000 firefighters, four military helicopters and troops on Sunday to help search for at least eight people still missing in a mountainous south-eastern region after devastating floods that killed two people in ...

Flooding from record rains in the mountainous region that spans France and Italy has killed two people in Italy and left at least 24 people in the two countries missing.