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Death Toll from Heavy Rains in Brazil Jumps to 23

People wade through a flooded street after a rainstorm in the Uruai neighborhood of Duque de Caxias city, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 24, 2024. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP)
People wade through a flooded street after a rainstorm in the Uruai neighborhood of Duque de Caxias city, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 24, 2024. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP)
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Death Toll from Heavy Rains in Brazil Jumps to 23

People wade through a flooded street after a rainstorm in the Uruai neighborhood of Duque de Caxias city, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 24, 2024. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP)
People wade through a flooded street after a rainstorm in the Uruai neighborhood of Duque de Caxias city, on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 24, 2024. (Photo by Pablo PORCIUNCULA / AFP)

Heavy rains in Brazil this weekend killed at least 23 people in the southeastern states of Rio de Janeiro and Espirito Santo.
Espirito Santos' state government said Sunday that 15 people died and almost 5,000 were out of their homes due to heavy rains falling since Friday night. Rio authorities reported eight deaths Saturday.
Thirteen deaths in Espirito Santo were registered in Mimoso do Sul, a countryside city 74 kilometers (46 miles) south of the state capital, Vitoria.
Rescue teams in both states had to stop their work Friday night because of risks of new landslides, with efforts restarting Saturday afternoon.

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Azerbaijan Says Armenia Fired on It, Yerevan Denies the Claim

A view through a car window shows a damaged entrance sign of Stepanakert city, known as Khankendi by Azerbaijan, following a military operation conducted by Azeri armed forces and a further mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, October 2, 2023. (Reuters)
A view through a car window shows a damaged entrance sign of Stepanakert city, known as Khankendi by Azerbaijan, following a military operation conducted by Azeri armed forces and a further mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, October 2, 2023. (Reuters)
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Azerbaijan Says Armenia Fired on It, Yerevan Denies the Claim

A view through a car window shows a damaged entrance sign of Stepanakert city, known as Khankendi by Azerbaijan, following a military operation conducted by Azeri armed forces and a further mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, October 2, 2023. (Reuters)
A view through a car window shows a damaged entrance sign of Stepanakert city, known as Khankendi by Azerbaijan, following a military operation conducted by Azeri armed forces and a further mass exodus of ethnic Armenians from the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, October 2, 2023. (Reuters)

Azerbaijan on Sunday accused Armenian forces of shooting at Azerbaijani positions from the southern Syunik province of Armenia, a claim Yerevan dismissed as untrue.

Azerbaijan's defense ministry said in a statement that Armenian forces had opened fire with small arms on Sunday morning from the Goris area. It gave no further details.

Armenia's defense ministry said the statement from Azerbaijan was untrue.

Reuters was unable to immediately verify the situation in the area.

Baku and Yerevan said on Thursday that they had agreed the text of a peace agreement to end nearly four decades of conflict between the South Caucasus countries, a sudden breakthrough in a fitful and often bitter peace process.