Australia flood clean-up starts; risk of more floods

Reuters: Australia's third-largest city started cleaning up stinking mud and debris on Friday after some of the country's worst floods on record, but in a sign of the task ahead, it could take six months to pump flood waters out of Queensland's coal mines. Many suburbs in the state's capital Brisbane, a city of two million people, remained submerged after floodwaters inundated the riverside city on Thursday. The Queensland floods, which started in December, have killed 20 people, left 53 missing and affected......

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