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LONDON—The holiday travel plans of hundreds of people were upended Saturday after Eurostar canceled train services to and from London because a tunnel under the River Thames became flooded. Large crowds of travelers trying to get across the English Channel were stranded at London’s St. Pancras International station and the Gare du Nord station in […]

NEW YORK—A storm barreled up the East Coast on Monday, flooding roads and downing trees in the Northeast, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands, and forcing flight cancelations and school closures. More than 5 inches (13 centimeters) of rain had fallen in parts of New Jersey and northeastern Pennsylvania by mid-morning, and parts in […]

Eyewitness video footage shows vehicles struggling through streaming floodwaters on Friday, after days of rainfall intensified to trigger flash flooding in New York City. More footage shows a bus flooded by water in Brooklyn. A flash-flood warning was in effect for New York City until midday, with as much as 6 inches of rain falling […]

DERNA, Libya—Libyan authorities evacuated residents from an inundated city Friday and limited access to it, as searchers dug through mud and hollowed-out buildings for 10,000 people missing and feared dead in flooding that has already killed more than 11,000. Authorities warned that disease and explosives shifted by the waters could claim yet more lives. Two […]

DERNA, Libya—Search teams combed streets, wrecked buildings and even the sea Wednesday to look for bodies in a coastal Libyan city where the collapse of two dams unleashed a massive flash flood that killed at least 5,100 people. The Mediterranean city of Derna has struggled to get help after Sunday night’s deluge washed away most […]

Record flooding in China’s Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region in July not only hit local residents hard, but also damaged tanks and aircraft at the communist regime’s military garrisons in Baoding and Zhuozhou. The regime had secretly planned to use the populated Zhuozhou and Baoding areas as floodwater discharge zones to save the newly planned political center of […]

DERNA, Libya—Thousands of people were killed and at least 10,000 were missing in Libya in floods caused by a huge Mediterranean storm that burst dams, swept away buildings, and wiped out as much as a quarter of the eastern coastal city of Derna. A senior medic in Derna told Reuters that more than 2,000 people […]

The Chinese Communist regime has yet to release a nationwide death toll for Typhoon Doksuri, which began surging in China since late July. Over 800 towns were flooded, more than 1.2 million residents were relocated, and many lost their lives. Please be aware, that the following footage may be disturbing for some viewers, due to […]

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Naval maneuvers off the coast of Alaska. The U.S. Navy deployed four destroyers to the region after spotting Chinese and Russian warships patrolling in nearby waters. A close call in the South China Sea as Beijing fires water cannons at the Filipino coast guard. Washington is reacting. “Chasing Dreams”—a new documentary is bringing China’s military […]

WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa.—Search teams in Pennsylvania were focusing on one underwater area Sunday as they try to find a 9-month-old boy swept away in a flash flood, hours after authorities confirmed that the body of his 2-year-old sister was recovered from the Delaware River. Upper Makefield Township police said in a Facebook post Sunday that […]

WASHINGTON CROSSING, Pa.—Heavy rains pounded an already saturated Northeast on Sunday for the second time in a week, spurring another round of flash flooding, cancelled airline flights and power outages. In Pennsylvania, a sudden flash flood late Saturday afternoon claimed at least five lives. Officials in Bucks County’s Upper Makefield Township in Pennsylvania said torrential […]

SEOUL, South Korea—South Korean rescuers on Sunday pulled nine bodies from a flooded tunnel where around 15 vehicles were trapped in muddy water, as days of heavy rain triggered flash floods and landslides and destroyed homes across the country, officials said. A total of 37 people have died and thousands have been evacuated since July […]

ANDOVER, Vt.—Floodwaters receded in Vermont cities and towns pummeled by a storm that delivered two months of rain in two days, enabling people to focus on recovering from a disaster that trapped residents in homes, closed roadways, and choked streets and businesses with mud and debris. The water drained off in the capital city of […]

BUFFALO, Iowa—Dale O’Donnell bought his small brick home only 100 yards or so from the Mississippi River because he enjoys watching the river and wanted a good view from his front porch. He got his money’s worth Monday as the Mississippi crested at a near-record high just feet from his home, which was surrounded by […]

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