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A week out from hosting thousands of international visitors for the United Nation's climate summit, Brazilian authorities are clearing the aftermath of what has become one of the deadliest police raids in the nation's history. The president says he had no warning of the scale of Rio de Janiero's police raid and the U-N is calling for an independent investigation.

Hurricane Melissa has carved a path of devastation through the Caribbean this week, first battering Jamaica, then surging into Cuba. It's left tens of thousands homeless, power grids faltering, and nations mobilising aid. At least 27 people are confirmed dead across Jamaica, Haiti, and Cuba, with early estimates suggesting hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.

A WARNING THAT THIS STORY CONTAINS GRAPHIC ELEMENTS THAT MAY DISTRESS SOME PEOPLE. There are fears for tens of thousands of civilians trapped in the western Sudanese city of Al Fasher, after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces overran the military's last stronghold in the Darfur region. Aid groups and observers are now documenting cases of mass killings and other atrocities. SBS spoke with Nathaniel Raymond of the Yale Humanitarian Research Lab about the gravity of the crisis.