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Kim visits North Korea flood zone, orders shelter, food aidLeader 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.
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Once in crisis, Ecuador city now helps others battle virus Ecuador’s biggest city, Guayaquil, was a pandemic hellscape of makeshift morgues, hundreds dying at home, bodies left in the street.
