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In the city of Nowshera, tent cities for flood refugees are springing up on college campuses. At one such haven, mothers spoke to NPR about their struggle to survive.

The heavy rains hitting the popular tourist destination of Kerala have loosed deadly floods and landslides. "Never before had the State witnessed a calamity of this scale," says a local leader.

Members of the Muslim minority group who fled rape, murder and brutality in Myanmar now face different threats in southeastern Bangladesh: flooding, landslides and disease.

More than 200,000 people have been displaced by floods and landslides, with at least 46 deaths reported.