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BEIJING [China]: Deadly flooding caused by heavy rains has threatened the lives of millions of people in southern China, prompting rescue teams to rescue stranded residents of Guangdong province, CNN reported. What is considered an economic powerhouse and home to 127 million people has seen...

Dubai International Airport, the world's busiest for international travel, is operating at full capacity, officials announced on Tuesday, shortly after unprecedented torrential rains lashed the Arabian Peninsula and caused flooding in many areas of the United Arab Emirates. Officials made the...

According to the report of The Himalayan Times, no casualties have been reported so far in this incident.Officials have expressed concern over possible flooding in Budhi Gandaki.Police said that after receiving information about avalanche in Manaslu, the world's eighth highest peak, a team...

Sydney, Before climate change really took hold, eastern Australia's flash floods were concentrated along our coastal areas east of the Great Dividing Range.But that is changing. We now get much more inland flooding, such as Brock Hill in 2012 and 2022 and Cobar, Bourke and Nyngan in 2022...

In the Kurgan region, the water level of the Tobol River continues to rise, the Ministry of Emergency Situations said on Thursday. In the center of the region, the level has crossed the danger mark, reaching around 970 cm, Xinhua news agency reported.Data from the regional emergency situations...

15,600 houses and 28,000 residential properties were submerged in water, the situation was particularly dangerous in the Kurgan region on the border with Kazakhstan, where the Tobol River in western Siberia rose by 1.5 meters to almost 6. meters within a 24-hour period. The report said.The...

A sustained rise in daily average temperatures, melting snow and swollen rivers has caused flooding in Russia's Western Siberia, the Volga region and the Central Federal District, in the worst flooding in decades.According to the report of Xinhua news agency, a state of emergency has been...

Russians gathered in a rare protest Monday in the city of Orsk to demand compensation following the collapse of a dam and subsequent flooding in the Orenburg region near the border with Moscow and Kazakhstan.The protests are an unusual sight in Russia, where authorities have increasingly...

Orenburg [Russia], Russian President Vladimir Putin once again addressed the serious flood situation in the Orenburg region during discussions with Emergency Minister Alexander Kurenkov, TASS reported, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Governor Denis Pasler and Emergencies Minister...

MOSCOW (AP) — Flooding caused by rising water levels in the Ural River breached a dam in a city near Russia's border with Kazakhstan, forcing the evacuation of about 2,000 people, local officials said.The dam broke in the city of Orsk in the Orenburg region, less than 2 kilometers (12.4 miles)...