Flooding in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state in May 2024 led to the deaths of at least 185 people and ravaged nearly everything needed for economic activity, from local shops to factories, farms and ranches. Financial losses were above 10 billion reais ($1.9 billion).

Brazil’s Supreme Court has convicted five men over the 2018 killing of Rio councilwoman Marielle Franco and her driver, Anderson Gomes, in a case tied to politics and organized crime.