At least one person is dead and six others are missing in Japan as parts of that country deal with record rainfall and the resulting catastrophic flooding, officials warned on Saturday.

Climate change is influencing extreme weather events like the flooding across six countries that has led to mass evacuations of cities as the waters continue to rise.

By David W Cerny and Pawel Florkiewicz JESENIK, Czech Republic/WARSAW (Reuters) -More rivers in central Europe burst their banks on Monday and the number of deaths increased from the worst flooding in at least two decades,