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7 Dead, 3 Missing After Heavy Rain, Floods Hit China: Report
China is enduring a summer of extreme weather, with heavy rains battering swathes of the country and many regions enduring sweltering heat waves, is by far the world's largest emitter of the greenhouse gases says scientists.
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Watch: Heavy Rain Brings Mumbai To A Standstill, Trains Hit, Schools Shut
Mumbai Rain: Heavy rain overnight pounded large parts of Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), affecting suburban and long-distance trains, roads, and highways.
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Asia Hit Hardest By Weather Disaster, Climate Change In 2023: UN
Asia was the world's most disaster-hit region from climate and weather hazards in 2023, the United Nations said Tuesday, with floods and storms the chief cause of casualties and economic losses.
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Chinese City Launches Operations To Hunt For Crocodiles Set Loose By Flooding
A Chinese city has launched an operation to find a large number of crocodiles that escaped when floods hit the region in recent days, authorities said Tuesday.
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Watch: Mud Tsunami Crashes Through Streets As Flash Floods Hits Italian Town
The mountain town is currently undergoing a significant cleanup operation, as its streets continue to be covered in layers of mud and debris.
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Train With 100 Onboard Derails After Floods Wash Away Embankment In Sweden
Heavy rainfall drenched southern Scandinavia on Monday, causing a train to derail and roads to flood in what officials in Sweden and Norway warned could become the most extreme wet weather system to hit the region in decades.
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China Ramps Up Rescue Efforts After Heavy Storm Hits Northern Region
Beijing and nearby cities stepped up rescue efforts on Tuesday after rains and floods brought by remnants of Typhoon Doksuri disrupted services and food supplies and claimed 20 lives in one of the worst storms to hit northern China in over a decade.
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Parts Of Saurashtra Hit By Flood-Like Situation After Heavy Rain: Gujarat
Torrential downpours hit parts of Gujarat's Saurashtra regions today, causing flooding in low-lying areas and cutting off several villages, prompting authorities to move people to safer areas in many places.
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Cyclone Mocha Floods Myanmar Port City, Spares Major Refugee Camps
Some 400,000 people were evacuated in Myanmar and Bangladesh ahead of Cyclone Mocha making landfall, as authorities and aid agencies scrambled to avert heavy casualties from one of the strongest storms to hit the region in recent years.
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Biden Declares Disaster As New Storms Hit Flooded California
The latest in a damaging succession of storm systems blew into California on Saturday, bringing heavy flooding to already waterlogged regions and threatening snowfalls of up to six feet (two meters) in areas.
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Snow, Flood And Tornado Threats As First Winter Storm Of 2023 Hits US
The first major US winter storm system of the year dumped a frosty mix of snow, freezing rain and sleet from the Northern Plains to the Upper Great Lakes region on Tuesday while posing a tornado and flood threat to a large swath of the South.
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Southwest France Hit By Flooding After Heavy Rains
Rivers overflowed their banks across a large swath of southwest France on Friday after heavy rains lashed the region overnight, leading to evacuations of dozens of residents.
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Nepal PM, Ministers Inspect Flood-Hit Regions As Death Count Rises To 111
Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his Cabinet colleagues today visited western Nepal - hit by floods and landslides - to take stock of the situation and ensure relief measures are being implemented.
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70 Dead, Dozens Still Missing After Turkey Floods; Rescue Ops Continue
Seventy people died and 47 are still missing in Turkey after flash floods hit Black Sea regions last week, officials said on Monday.
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Over 350 Villages Hit By Floods In UP, Ganga, Yamuna Above Danger-Mark
At least 357 villages across 21 districts in Uttar Pradesh have been inundated with floodwater due to heavy rainfall in the state. Hamirpur and Jalun districts in Bundelkhand region are the worst affected. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will take an
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7 Dead, 3 Missing After Heavy Rain, Floods Hit China: Report
China is enduring a summer of extreme weather, with heavy rains battering swathes of the country and many regions enduring sweltering heat waves, is by far the world's largest emitter of the greenhouse gases says scientists.
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Watch: Heavy Rain Brings Mumbai To A Standstill, Trains Hit, Schools Shut
Mumbai Rain: Heavy rain overnight pounded large parts of Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), affecting suburban and long-distance trains, roads, and highways.
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Asia Hit Hardest By Weather Disaster, Climate Change In 2023: UN
Asia was the world's most disaster-hit region from climate and weather hazards in 2023, the United Nations said Tuesday, with floods and storms the chief cause of casualties and economic losses.
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Chinese City Launches Operations To Hunt For Crocodiles Set Loose By Flooding
A Chinese city has launched an operation to find a large number of crocodiles that escaped when floods hit the region in recent days, authorities said Tuesday.
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Watch: Mud Tsunami Crashes Through Streets As Flash Floods Hits Italian Town
The mountain town is currently undergoing a significant cleanup operation, as its streets continue to be covered in layers of mud and debris.
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Train With 100 Onboard Derails After Floods Wash Away Embankment In Sweden
Heavy rainfall drenched southern Scandinavia on Monday, causing a train to derail and roads to flood in what officials in Sweden and Norway warned could become the most extreme wet weather system to hit the region in decades.
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China Ramps Up Rescue Efforts After Heavy Storm Hits Northern Region
Beijing and nearby cities stepped up rescue efforts on Tuesday after rains and floods brought by remnants of Typhoon Doksuri disrupted services and food supplies and claimed 20 lives in one of the worst storms to hit northern China in over a decade.
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Parts Of Saurashtra Hit By Flood-Like Situation After Heavy Rain: Gujarat
Torrential downpours hit parts of Gujarat's Saurashtra regions today, causing flooding in low-lying areas and cutting off several villages, prompting authorities to move people to safer areas in many places.
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Cyclone Mocha Floods Myanmar Port City, Spares Major Refugee Camps
Some 400,000 people were evacuated in Myanmar and Bangladesh ahead of Cyclone Mocha making landfall, as authorities and aid agencies scrambled to avert heavy casualties from one of the strongest storms to hit the region in recent years.
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Biden Declares Disaster As New Storms Hit Flooded California
The latest in a damaging succession of storm systems blew into California on Saturday, bringing heavy flooding to already waterlogged regions and threatening snowfalls of up to six feet (two meters) in areas.
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Snow, Flood And Tornado Threats As First Winter Storm Of 2023 Hits US
The first major US winter storm system of the year dumped a frosty mix of snow, freezing rain and sleet from the Northern Plains to the Upper Great Lakes region on Tuesday while posing a tornado and flood threat to a large swath of the South.
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Southwest France Hit By Flooding After Heavy Rains
Rivers overflowed their banks across a large swath of southwest France on Friday after heavy rains lashed the region overnight, leading to evacuations of dozens of residents.
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Nepal PM, Ministers Inspect Flood-Hit Regions As Death Count Rises To 111
Nepal Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba and his Cabinet colleagues today visited western Nepal - hit by floods and landslides - to take stock of the situation and ensure relief measures are being implemented.
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70 Dead, Dozens Still Missing After Turkey Floods; Rescue Ops Continue
Seventy people died and 47 are still missing in Turkey after flash floods hit Black Sea regions last week, officials said on Monday.
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Over 350 Villages Hit By Floods In UP, Ganga, Yamuna Above Danger-Mark
At least 357 villages across 21 districts in Uttar Pradesh have been inundated with floodwater due to heavy rainfall in the state. Hamirpur and Jalun districts in Bundelkhand region are the worst affected. Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will take an
