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- Floodwater that threatened the worst flooding in Brisbane in decades slowly started to recede Thursday, carving a muddy trail of destruction through the city which authorities warned would take months to clear up. More than 20,000 homes were inundated with water after the normally subdued...

13 mins ago SYDNEY – Thunderstorms are forecast to soak the already flooded communities in northeastern Australia. Residents in the path of a rising river are frantically filling sandbags for a makeshift levee against the predicted 46-foot (14-meter) peak. More than 4,000 people...