A recount of contested ballots for the leadership of the French Socialist Party confirmed that Martine Aubry, 58, the mayor of Lille, narrowly beat the party’s former presidential candidate, Ségolène Royal, 55, party officials said Tuesday.

Rescue workers in southern Brazil digging through the wreckage of homes engulfed by mudslides found more bodies on Tuesday, raising the death toll from flooding and hillside collapses to 79.

Seven bodies were dumped before dawn Tuesday at a school soccer field in the Mexican border city of Juárez.