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May 1, 2024

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‘Torrent’ rains close Saudi schools, flood streets

Saudi authorities closed schools in many areas on Wednesday as floods inundated roads, the latest incident of heavy rains to disrupt life in the desert Gulf. AFPTV footage showed partially submerged cars trying to wade through stagnant water in the central Qassim district, one of the worst-hit areas overnight. “The rain continued for seven hours from the afternoon until close to midnight in very heavy amounts,” said Mohammed, an Egyptian resident of Buraydah, capital of Qassim, who spoke to AFP on condition that only his first name be used. . “The water accumulated to a height of over 10 centimeters

April 22, 2024

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Flooding has hit southern China, sparking fears of extreme weather

CHINA: Floods have inundated a handful of cities in southern China’s densely populated Pearl River Delta after record-breaking rainfall, sparking concerns about the region’s defenses against bigger floods caused by extreme weather. On Monday, rescuers on boats in China’s Guangdong province rushed to evacuate trapped residents, carrying some elderly people with piggy banks from their homes and deploying helicopters to rescue villagers trapped in landslides. The province once called “the factory floor of the world” is prone to summer floods. Its defenses against nuisance floods were severely tested in June 2022, when Guangdong was hit by the heaviest rainfall in

April 17, 2024

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Dubai airport diverts flights as ‘exceptional weather’ hits Gulf

DUBAI: Dubai’s major international airport diverted many inbound flights on Tuesday as heavy rains lashed the United Arab Emirates, causing widespread flooding across the desert country. The world’s busiest air hub for international passengers confirmed the suspension of arrivals at 7:26 p.m. (1526 GMT) before announcing a “gradual restart” more than two hours later. Earlier, the airport, which was expecting more than 100 flight arrivals on Tuesday afternoon, took the equally unusual step of temporarily suspending operations in the chaos caused by the storm. Dubai, the Middle East’s financial hub, has been paralyzed by torrential rain that flooded the United

April 9, 2024

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Russia and Kazakhstan evacuate more than 100,000 people due to flooding

ORSK, RUSSIA: Russia and Kazakhstan ordered more than 100,000 people to evacuate after rapid snowmelt swelled mighty rivers beyond their bursting point in the region’s worst flooding in at least 70 years. The deluge of meltwater overwhelmed dozens of settlements in the Ural Mountains, Siberia and regions of Kazakhstan near rivers such as the Ural and Tobol, which local officials said rose by meters within hours to their highest levels ever recorded. The Ural River, Europe’s third largest flowing through Russia and Kazakhstan into the Caspian, burst through a dam on Friday, flooding the town of Orsk just south of

March 13, 2024

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Railway revenue rises to Rs 55 bn in 8 months

Islamabad: Pakistan Railways has earned 55 billion rupees in the first eight months of the current financial year despite facing a financial crisis due to monsoon floods. In the first eight months of the previous financial year, the department had earned Rs 37 billion, showing a historic increase of Rs 18 billion, or 49%, in revenue in the current financial year, i.e., 2023-24, an official of Ministry of Railways. According to available data, the official said, the 55 billion rupees profit so far in FY24 included revenue from passenger and freight trains and other segments of the division also contributed.

December 10, 2023

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2 meter face Glacial flood in Pakistan

HUNZA: Fifteen million people worldwide are at risk of glacial flooding, with two million of them in Pakistan, according to a February study published in the scientific journal Nature Communications. From 2018 to 2021, around 14 GLOFs occurred in Pakistan, but these increased to 75 in 2022, according to the UNDP. As the COP28 UN climate summit gets underway in Dubai, pressure is mounting on rich countries to fulfill their pledges to help developing countries. The Green Climate Fund said in October it had raised $9.3 billion, short of its $10 billion goal. Rich nations are set to meet a

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