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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 2

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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Australia: Record Flooding Batters Northern NSW After Heavy Rainfall 3

Flooding has battered cities and towns across the Mid-North Coast and the Hunter Region in northern New South Wales, leaving many residents stranded or forced to evacuate after days of heavy rainfall. In the city of Taree, the Manning River surpassed its 1929 record of six meters and was still rising as of Wednesday morning, May 21. Authorities have issued 13 emergency-level alerts.

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Heavy snow in Hokkaido

Photo taken on Feb. 4, 2025, shows JR Kushiro Station after heavy snow in Kushiro on the northernmost Japanese main island of Hokkaido.

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Children ask questions to Noguchi in space

KUSHIRO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, appearing on a large screen, waves to children during a space-to-Earth talk session at Kushiro Children's Museum Kodomo Yugakukan in Kushiro, Hokkaido, on Jan. 19, 2010. Children asked Noguchi, who is currently on a five-month mission at the International Space Station, about his experiences there via a satellite and TV telephone linkup at an event hosted by the museum and Rikubetsu Astronomical Observatory.

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Kushiro's winter attraction: SL train trip on Kushiro wetland

KUSHIRO, Japan - JR Hokkaido is offering a steam locomotive train service across the Kushiro wetland during the winter season as a tourist attraction in eastern Hokkaido. The photo shows a SL train crossing a bridge over the frozen Kushiro River. The inaugural run Jan. 19 on the 224-seat SL train between Kushiro Station and Yukawa Onsen Station was sold out, JR officials say. The SL train service will run through mid-March.

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Heavy snow warning issued for regions along Sea of Japan

Pedestrians walk in a snowstorm near JR Kushiro Station in Japan's Hokkaido Prefecture on Jan. 19, 2015. The Japan Meteorological Agency has issued a heavy snow warning for Hokkaido, the Tohoku northeastern region and prefectures along the Sea of Japan coast in eastern and western Japan. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Kushiro's winter attraction: SL train trip on Kushiro wetland

KUSHIRO, Japan - JR Hokkaido is offering a steam locomotive train service across the Kushiro wetland during the winter season as a tourist attraction in eastern Hokkaido. The photo shows a SL train crossing a bridge over the frozen Kushiro River. The inaugural run Jan. 19 on the 224-seat SL train between Kushiro Station and Yukawa Onsen Station was sold out, JR officials say. The SL train service will run through mid-March. (Kyodo)

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Kushiro's winter attraction: SL train trip on Kushiro wetland

KUSHIRO, Japan - JR Hokkaido is offering a steam locomotive train service across the Kushiro wetland during the winter season as a tourist attraction in eastern Hokkaido. The photo shows a SL train crossing a bridge over the frozen Kushiro River. The inaugural run Jan. 19 on the 224-seat SL train between Kushiro Station and Yukawa Onsen Station was sold out, JR officials say. The SL train service will run through mid-March. (Kyodo)

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Children ask questions to Noguchi in space

KUSHIRO, Japan - Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, appearing on a large screen, waves to children during a space-to-Earth talk session at Kushiro Children's Museum Kodomo Yugakukan in Kushiro, Hokkaido, on Jan. 19, 2010. Children asked Noguchi, who is currently on a five-month mission at the International Space Station, about his experiences there via a satellite and TV telephone linkup at an event hosted by the museum and Rikubetsu Astronomical Observatory. (Kyodo)