At least 16 people have died after a cyclone struck Bangladesh’s southern coast on Tuesday, razing down properties, snapping communications and power links, and forcing the evacuation of about a million people.

Up to nine million Pakistanis are being pushed into poverty as a result of severe monsoon floods.

Hurricane Ian’s death toll soared to 44 in the US state of Florida, as rescuers searched for survivors among the ruins and authorities in South Carolina began assessing the damages caused from the calamity.

Thousands of Pakistani farmers affected by recent devastating floods assemble in the capital Islamabad to protest against the rising costs of electricity and fertilizers.

Typhoon Noru made landfall in Philippines, leaving at least five dead and many areas flooded.

At least nine people died of water-borne diseases in flood-hit Pakistan on Monday, taking the toll from such causes to 318, as infections continue to rise across the South Asian country that has seen unprecedented flooding in recent months. 

At least 10 people were killed by torrential overnight rains and floods in the central Italian region of Marche, authorities said on Friday, as rescuers continued to search for three still missing.

Pakistan's unprecedented floods, which have submerged huge swathes of the South Asian nation, have killed nearly 1,500 people.

Pakistan's Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif visited a flood hit region of his country and appealed to the rich to help the victims in poor areas.

Thousands of people on Australia's east coast fled their homes Wednesday as torrential rains tracked north after unleashing floods in Sydney that submerged communities, roads and bridges under mud-brown water.