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Since late April, floods have devastated the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, causing more than a million people to be forcibly displaced from their homes and killing at least 150 people.
The death toll from heavy rains that have caused flooding in Brazil's southern state of Rio Grande do Sul has risen to at least 78, local authorities said on Sunday, with more than 115,000 people displaced.
U.S. corn futures rose on Friday to their highest level since late January before paring gains and soybeans reached a one-month peak as floods disrupted harvests in top exporter Brazil and disease ate into Argentina's corn crop, analysts said.
BEIJING/BRASILIA, Brazil -- Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi has met with counterparts from Argentina, Peru and Bolivia in the past week, as Beijing intensifies efforts to court Latin American countries through its Belt and Road infrastructure-building initiative.
TOKYO — Donald Trump would make currency devaluation great again in a second term.
And President Xi Jinping might conclude that the yen’s drop affords China the geopolitical cover to engineer a weaker yuan.
VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis will take his first overseas trip of the year and the longest of his 11-year papacy, travelling to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Timor-Leste and Singapore from Sept 2 to 13, the Vatican said on Friday (April 12).