The extreme weather last week has killed at least 366 people in Sri Lanka, 604 in Indonesia, and 176 in Thailand, according to authorities.
Rescuers in Sri Lanka are still searching for 367 people after a cyclone hit the island nation, with downpours flooding homes, fields and roads and triggering landslides in the hilly central region.
Nearly a million people have been impacted by the heavy rains and floods, which forced nearly 200,000 into shelters, the country's disaster management centre said.
People were seen salvaging belongings from flooded homes along the banks of the Kelani River, near capital Colombo on Monday.
Meanwhile, train and flight services have resumed after being disrupted last week, but schools stayed closed, officials said.
Cyclone Ditwah was the "largest and most challenging" natural disaster in Sri Lanka's history, President Anura Kumara Dissanayake said.
The cyclone also brought heavy rain to India's southern state of Tamil Nadu over the weekend, with authorities saying three people were killed in rain-related incidents.
The storm, which is currently 50km (30 miles) off the coast of the state capital Chennai, has already weakened into a "deep depression" and is expected to weaken further in the next 12 hours, weather officials said on Monday.
Hundreds still missing
In Southeast Asia, close to 700 people were killed as two different cyclones hit the region. Rescuers in Indonesia are still searching for at least 464 people missing, according to official figures.
People have started clearing mud, trees and wreckage from roads on the weekend as recovery operations continued.
More than 28,000 homes have been damaged, with 1.4 million people affected by the rare tropical storm.
The country's president, Prabowo Subianto, called it a catastrophe and pledged to rebuild infrastructure as he visited the three affected provinces on Monday, where nearly 300,000 people have been displaced by the flooding.
'Nothing remains'
"The water just rose up into the house and we were afraid, so we fled. Then we came back on Friday, and the house was gone, destroyed," said Afrianti, 41, who only goes by one name and lives in West Sumatra's Padang city.
She and her family of nine have made their own tent shelter beside the single wall that remains of their home.
"My home and business are gone, the shop is gone. Nothing remains. I can only live near this one remaining wall," she said.
In Thailand, flooding in eight southern provinces affected about three million people and led to a major mobilisation of its military to evacuate critical patients from hospitals and reach people stuck in floodwaters for days.
In the worst-affected city of Hat Yai, a southern trading hub, 335 mm (13 inches) of rain fell on 21 November, its highest single-day tally in 300 years, followed by days of unrelenting downpours.
Prime Minister Anutin Charnivirakul expects residents to be able to return home within seven days, a government spokesperson said on Monday.
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The first batch of compensation payments is set to be distributed on Monday, starting with 239m baht (£5.6m) for 26,000 people, the spokesperson added.
In Malaysia there have been at least three deaths and authorities are still on alert for a second and third wave of flooding as 11,600 remain in evacuation centres.
The first day of the action kicks off today, with a rally organised by the Unite union at the Smithfield depot in Birmingham.
The union said the numbers joining the strike were "growing daily" - but Birmingham City Council said just "a small number" of agency staff were taking part.
The replacement workers recruited by the Job&Talent agency, said they had voted in favour of industrial action "over bullying and harassment and the threat of blacklisting at the council's refuse department two weeks ago".
Sharon Graham, Unite's general secretary, said: "Birmingham council will only resolve this dispute when it stops the appalling treatment of its workforce.
"Agency workers have now joined with directly-employed staff to stand up against the massive injustices done to them."
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She added: "Instead of wasting millions more of council taxpayers' money fighting a dispute it could settle justly for a fraction of the cost, the council needs to return to talks with Unite and put forward a fair deal for all bin workers.
"Strikes will not end until it does."
Strikes from the bin workers in Birmingham have been ongoing since January, and are likely to continue beyond May next year.
Birmingham City Council said it was "disappointed the dispute has not been resolved as Unite has rejected all our offers".
"We are continuing to make regular waste collections and our contingency plan is working," it added.
It also said it found "no blacklisting has taken place" after an investigation and that it "strongly" refuted Unite's claims of bullying, which it said were "unfounded".
Job&Talent has been contacted for comment.
The Owls were hit with a 12-point deduction on 24 October after filing for administration.
The club currently sit at the bottom of the Championship table and are now on -10 points.
The EFL said the deduction was for "multiple breaches" of league regulations.
In a statement, the EFL said: "Sheffield Wednesday FC are to be deducted six points with immediate effect for multiple breaches of EFL regulations relating to payment obligations, with the club's former owner, Mr Dejphon Chansiri, prohibited from being an owner or director of any EFL club for a period of three years.
"The sanctions on both the club and Mr Chansiri can be confirmed after the parties reached an agreement on the appropriate sanction which was subsequently ratified by the chair of the appointed independent disciplinary commission."
The EFL had charged the Championship club, which is up for sale, in June with multiple breaches of regulations after they failed to pay players on time.
At the end of June, Mr Chansiri said he was willing to sell the club.
Fans had been boycotting matches and staged a number of protests over his ownership.
Supporters previously told Sky News how happy they were for the 158-year-old club to enter administration as it meant "the previous owner has gone" and it would herald a "fresh start".
James Silverwood, the vice chair of the Sheffield Wednesday Supporters Trust, said in October: "We're probably an unusual fan base in that we're actually quite elated and optimistic about going into administration.
"It means that the previous owner has gone, an owner who was mismanaging the club, who had no respect for the community and the fan base.
"So this is really a fresh start."
On Saturday, the Owls lost 3-2 to Preston at Hillsborough in the Championship and, with the deduction, are now 27 points from safety.
Ms Siddiq was accused of using her influence over her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, the country's former prime minister, to illegally secure plots of land for her family members in the suburbs of the capital, Dhaka.
She was being tried in absentia.
Her aunt, Sheikh Hasina, was ousted last year and has since been sentenced to death, although she fled to India before she could be arrested.
Ms Siddiq, her niece, has described herself as "collateral damage" in the new Bangladesh government's campaign against Ms Hasina, and previously said the trial was based on "fabricated accusations and driven by a clear political vendetta".
In response to the sentence on Monday, Ms Siddiq said the "whole process has been flawed and farcical from the beginning to the end".
"The outcome of this kangaroo court is as predictable as it is unjustified," she added. "I hope this so-called 'verdict' will be treated with the contempt it deserves.
"My focus has always been my constituents in Hampstead and Highgate, and I refuse to be distracted by the dirty politics of Bangladesh."
The Labour MP resigned her ministerial post earlier this year after facing calls to step down over links to Ms Hasina.
She was later accused of illegally receiving a plot of land from her aunt.
An investigation by Sir Keir Starmer's ethics adviser, Sir Laurie Magnus, did not find "evidence of improprieties".
However, he said it was "regrettable" that Ms Siddiq had not been more alert to the "potential reputational risks" of the ties to her aunt.
The UK does not have an extradition treaty in place with Bangladesh.
Former prime minister: Investigation 'corrupt'
Awami League, a banned political party in Bangladesh, led by Ms Hasina, said that the verdicts were "entirely predictable... just as other recent ACC (Anti-Corruption Commission) cases have been," and accused the commission of being led by "desperate, unelected men".
Ms Hasina then added in a statement through the party: "No country is free from corruption. But corruption needs to be investigated in a way that is not itself corrupt.
"The ACC has failed that test today. It is controlled by an unelected government run by the Awami League's political opponents.
"It has exclusively targeted members of the Awami League, or those seen to be sympathetic to our party, and done nothing to prosecute or even investigate the cronyism that has escalated in Bangladesh since Dr Mohammad Yunus and his so-called interim government took power."
The former prime minister was handed a combined 21-year prison sentence in other corruption cases last week.
'Profound concerns' raised by British lawyers
Last week, a group of prominent British lawyers and former cabinet ministers wrote an open letter raising "profound concerns" over Ms Siddiq's trial in Bangladesh.
Barrister Cherie Blair, who is married to ex-prime minister Tony Blair, Sir Robert Buckland, who served as justice secretary, and Dominic Grieve, an ex-attorney general, wrote that the criminal proceedings against Ms Siddiq were "artificial and a contrived and unfair way of pursuing a prosecution".
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The lawyers wrote that Ms Siddiq did not have a "proper opportunity of defending herself".
"She is being tried in her absence without justification and… the proceedings fall far short of standards of fairness recognised internationally," they said.
The letter was also signed by high-profile lawyers Philippe Sands and Geoffrey Robertson.
They called for the Bangladeshi authorities to put all the allegations to Ms Siddiq's lawyers "so that she has a fair opportunity to address them".
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