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International

Beijing evacuates more than 80,000 over heavy rains: state media

Flooded farmlands next to the overflowing Chao river, following heavy rainfall in Miyun district of Beijing, China, July 28, 2025.
International

Heavy rains leave 30 dead in Chinese capital

A damaged bridge and submerged buildings at a flood-affected village in Kaili, China, June 28, 2025.
International

China’s north and west on alert after sweeping rains trigger deadly floods

In other parts of China, daily rainfall measured by 30 meteorological stations in provinces such as Hubei and Guizhou broke records for the month of June.
Lifestyle

Flood-hit China expands social security net as extreme rain takes toll

Australia has been hit with more extreme weather events that some experts say are the result of climate change.
International

Australia begins clean-up after floods kill 5, damage 10,000 properties

A man walks through the rain at Milsons Point in Sydney, Australia, May 22, 2025. The weather system is now moving south with heavy rains in Sydney on Friday. 
International

Four die as floods hammer area north of Sydney, more rain coming

Floodwaters reach the levee walls holding back the Wilsons River in Lismore, Australia, March 8, 2025.
International

Floods hit eastern Australia, 200,000 properties blacked out

More than 1,400 people were affected by flooding following heavy rains, and thousands of homes were damaged in Jakarta, Bogor, Depok, and Bekasi, according to the National Board for Disaster Management (BNPB).
International

Thousands evacuated as torrential rains flood Indonesia capital

Tudor buildings in Stratford-upon-Avon, UK, on Wednesday, June 12, 2024. The housing market has reached a state of inertia with everybody wanting for a Bank of England interest-rate cut and the result of the general election, Tony Jamieson, senior partner at estate agent Clarke Gammon, said in comments included in the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors report. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg
Property

One in 5 properties in England now at risk of flooding

Rubber sap oozes from a tree at a plantation in Chawang district, Nakhon Si Thammarat province, Thailand, on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2019. Thailand is the world's largest rubber producer and exporter. The roughly one in 10 Thais who depend on the rubber trade are suffering after global prices fell 65 percent since 2011, the last time the Southeast Asian nation held a credible vote. Photographer: Brent Lewin/Bloomberg
Energy & Commodities

Thailand floods could cut rubber output by 320,000 tons

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