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China: Wedding Feast Carries On as Heavy Rain Floods Venue in Shaanxi

This unforgettable scene was captured in Weinan, Shaanxi Province, on May 18, 2026. It looks like a party on a river, but it’s actually an outdoor wedding feast. A sudden heavy downpour flooded the square with dozens of centimeters of water. Relatives and friends sit around dozens of round tables, watching the ceremony and waiting for the meal. Thankfully, the organizers set up cozy canopies and fences, keeping guests dry. Rain can’t stop love and blessings—everyone shows up in the storm to celebrate the newlyweds.

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New Zealand: Landslide Hits Mount Maunganui 3

Six people, including two teenagers, are missing after a major landslide struck a local campground in Mount Maunganui on Thursday, January 22. Police are also seeking information on three others as search and rescue operations continue in a dangerous environment, with authorities describing the incident as a national tragedy and the community rallying to support affected families.

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Philippines: Typhoon Kalmaegi Triggers Severe Flooding, Displacing Thousands 2

Severe flooding has submerged towns and displaced hundreds of thousands as Typhoon Kalmaegi battered the central Philippines. Rivers overflowed in Cebu and nearby islands, forcing residents onto rooftops while cars and containers were swept through the streets. Local officials said some evacuation centers were inundated, and many survivors of a recent earthquake had to be evacuated again. More than 380,000 people fled their homes across the Visayas, southern Luzon, and northern Mindanao. Kalmaegi, locally named Tino, made landfall late Monday, November 3 with winds of up to 130 kph before moving toward the South China Sea on Tuesday, November 4.

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China: Tourists and Locals Rescue Yaks from Mud Pit in Qinghai

In Qinghai, China, tourists and locals joined forces with an excavator operator to rescue four yaks stuck in deep mud on September 30, 2025. After spotting the trapped animals, the tourists alerted a herdsman and enlisted help from a nearby construction site. Working for nearly an hour, they freed all four yaks safely. The herdsman said the rescue prevented losses of over RMB 40,000.

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US: North Dakota Sees Powerful Winds Amid Tornado-Producing Storm

Severe weather swept across the upper Midwest on Friday, June 20, bringing powerful winds and leaving at least 3 dead in North Dakota as a tornado ripped through the area.

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China: Typhoon Wutip Darkens Hainan Skies Ahead of Landfall in Hainan

This is the terrifying moment a massive wall of dark clouds engulfed the skies over Hainan as Typhoon Wutip approached southern China. On June 11, 2025, in Hainan, China, video captured thick, menacing clouds rolling in ahead of Typhoon Wutip's landfall. The sky turned eerily dark as the season’s first typhoon neared, creating a heavy, ominous atmosphere. The storm made landfall around 11 p.m. on June 13 along the coast of Dongfang, a city in Hainan, with winds reaching up to 30 meters per second and a central pressure of 980 hPa. Heavy rain swept through southern parts of the island, with some areas experiencing torrential downpours and localized extreme rainfall. According to China National Radio, by June 15, Typhoon Wutip had weakened into a tropical depression after moving inland into Jiangxi Province, and continued to lose strength. The video ends with the storm clouds blanketing the landscape as residents brace for the typhoon’s impact.

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Japan: Heavy Snowfall Hits Sea Of Japan Coast 4

Heavy snowfall has battered a wide area of Japan, especially the Hokuriku region along the Sea of Japan coast. This video shows blizzard conditions in the city Otaru, Hokkaido.

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US: EF-1 Tornado Touches Down In Athens, AL, Leaving Devastating Damage

The National Weather Service in Huntsville has confirmed that an EF-1 tornado touched down in downtown Athens, Alabama, on Saturday night, December 28.

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Philippines: Typhoon Yinxing Makes Landfall In Cagayan, Damaging Infrastructure 3

Typhoon Yinxing, known as Marce in the Philippines, made landfall near Santa Ana, Cagayan, on Thursday afternoon, November 7, forcing more than 21,000 people to evacuate and damaging two domestic airports and homes. Telecommunications and power supplies have remained down due to damaged cables and power lines, severely affecting residents in the affected areas.

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Philippines: Typhoon Yinxing Makes Landfall In Cagayan, Damaging Infrastructure 2

Typhoon Yinxing, known as Marce in the Philippines, made landfall near Santa Ana, Cagayan, on Thursday afternoon, November 7, forcing more than 21,000 people to evacuate and damaging two domestic airports and homes. Telecommunications and power supplies have remained down due to damaged cables and power lines, severely affecting residents in the affected areas.

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Thailand: Overflowing Of Ping River Causes Flooding In Chiang Mai Amid Rainy Season 3

Water levels in the Ping River rose, causing severe flooding across Chiang Mai on September 25 and affecting infrastructure. Small vehicles were stranded on flooded roads, and local shops and stalls were forced to close.

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US: Beryl Causes Widespread Power Outages And Flooding, Leaves Multiple Dead In Texas 4

Beryl has weakened into a tropical storm after making landfall as a category 1 hurricane near Matagorda in Texas, on Monday, July 8, shortly before 4 a.m. local time. The hurricane caused power outages and life-threatening flooding and left multiple dead in Houston and the surrounding areas.

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US: Days-Long Winter Storm Dumps Heavy Snow On Sierra Nevada, Closing Roads, Schools

A days-long winter storm dumped heavy snow on the Sierra Nevada, closing major highways, ski resorts, and schools in parts of California. More than 10 feet of snow and hurricane-force wind gusts of 170 mph-plus were reported.

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US: Strong Winter Storm Brings Blizzard Conditions To Sierra Nevada

A strong winter storm hit the Sierra Nevada on Friday, March 1, bringing heavy snow and high winds. Blizzard Warnings were issued for the Sierra, including Lake Tahoe and eastern Nevada. The Sierra Avalanche Center warned that the danger of avalanches was high. Yosemite National Park and many ski resorts in the region announced they were closing at least for the day.

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MEDEF Summer University - Paris

Lyon Mayor Gerard Collomb is pictured during the 2014 Summer University of France's largest union of employers Medef, held at the HEC campus in Jouy-en-Josas, near Paris, France on August 27, 2014. Photo by Stephane Lemouton/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Lacquer medal case, pin badges eyed for 2020 Olympics

KANAZAWA, Japan - The city government of Wajima in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, and the local "Wajima-nuri" lacquerware industry have jointly crafted a medal case and pin badges, as seen in this file photo taken on Dec. 17, 2014, for possible use as official goods at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo.

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'Picture Letters of 1945' to be revived

TOKYO, Japan - Cartoonist Eiko Hanamura narrates her memories of the end of World War II in Tokyo on Nov. 20, 2014, for inclusion in a revived version of "My Aug. 15, Picture Letters of 1945" with voice recordings attached, set for publication next summer.

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Arena under construction for '16 Olympics

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Photo shows construction of a sports arena under way in Rio de Janeiro on Dec. 19, 2014, for fencing and other events of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Brazil.

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Tennis courts under construction for '16 Olympics

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Photos shows construction of tennis courts under way in Rio de Janeiro on Dec. 19, 2014, for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Brazil.

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Fujita Kanko to open hotel in Seoul in 2018

TOKYO, Japan - Image of a hotel that Japan's Fujita Kanko Inc. plans to open in Seoul, South Korea, in the summer of 2018 is seen in an undated photo. The company announced the plan on Dec. 15, 2014. It will be the firm's first directly managed hotel in Asia.

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Vice Tokyo gov. addresses session of 2020 advisory panel

TOKYO, Japan - Tokyo Vice Gov. Toshiyuki Akiyama addresses the first session of an advisory panel for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo at a Tokyo Metropolitan Government building on Dec. 8, 2014. Akiyama chairs the panel of experts tasked with recommending how to use Olympic facilities after the event.

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Visitors to huge belt conveyor get sunflower seeds

RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan - A tourist association in Rikuzentakata, Iwate Prefecture, northeastern Japan, offers bottles of sunflower seeds, as shown in this file photo taken on Nov. 11, 2014, to participants in a tour of a huge belt conveyor seen as a symbol of reconstruction work from the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Association officials hope visitors will remember the city when sunflowers bloom in early summer.

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Tunisian parents lament death of their son in Syria

TUNIS, Tunisia - Parents hold a portrait of their son who died in Syria in the summer of 2012 after joining the Islamic State militant group, at their home in the suburbs of Tunis, Tunisia, on Nov. 24, 2014.

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Tokyo 2020 chief Mori at coordination meeting

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori (C), head of the organizing committee for the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, addresses a coordination meeting in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2014. Tokyo Gov. Yoichi Masuzoe and Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Minister Hakubun Shimomura are sitting left and right, respectively, to Mori.

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Budget carrier Hong Kong Express to add Japan flights

OSAKA, Japan - Andrew Cowen (2nd from L), deputy chief executive officer of low-cost carrier Hong Kong Express Airways Ltd., and Keiichi Ando (R), president of New Kansai International Airport Co., take part in a cake-cutting ceremony at Kansai International Airport near Osaka on Nov. 20, 2014, to mark the first anniversary of HK Express' service connecting Hong Kong and Kansai. Cowen unveiled a plan to increase the carrier's flights linking Hong Kong and Japan by around 10 per week by next summer.

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IOC proposes new venue for 2020 Olympic basketball

TOKYO, Japan - John Coats, chairman of the Coordination Commission of the International Olympic Committee, speaks about his proposal to hold the basketball competition in Osaka, western Japan, at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo at a press conference in the Japanese capital on Nov. 19, 2014.

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IOC proposes new venue for 2020 Olympic basketball

TOKYO, Japan - John Coats (L), chairman of the Coordination Commission of the International Olympic Committee, and Yoshiro Mori, head of the organizing committee for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, speak to the press in the Japanese capital on Nov. 19, 2014, about Coats' proposal to hold the basketball competition in Osaka, western Japan, at the Summer Games.

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IOC's coordination panel visits 2020 Olympic venue

TOKYO, Japan - John Coates (C in front row), chairman of the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission, and others visit an alternative venue in Chofu, western Tokyo, on Nov. 18, 2014, for the badminton competition at the 2020 Summer Olympics as the organizing committee is seeking to change its original venue plan for cost reasons.

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Japan, IOC discuss preparedness for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - John Coates, chairman of the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission, makes a speech at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 18, 2014, during the second round of talks with the Japanese organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to review progress in preparations for the Summer Games.

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Japan, IOC discuss preparedness for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, head of the organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, speaks at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 18, 2014, during the second round of talks with the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission to review progress in preparations for the Summer Games.

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Japan, IOC meet on preparedness for 2020 Tokyo Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - John Coates (R), chairman of the International Olympic Committee's Coordination Commission, and former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, president of the country's organizing committee for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, attend the second round of talks at a Tokyo hotel on Nov. 18, 2014, to review progress in preparations for the Summer Games.

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Sample desserts for Kyushu Railway sightseeing train

FUKUOKA, Japan - Kyushu Railway Co. unveils a sample dish of desserts to be served on a new sightseeing train, planned from next summer, in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan, on Nov. 17. 2014.

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'APEC Blue' in Beijing

BEIJING, China - A rare blue sky is seen over the main stadium of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing on Nov. 9, 2014, due to the Chinese government's imposition of restrictions on road traffic and plant operations for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit.

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Russian expert warns of cyberattacks at Tokyo Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Eugene Kaspersky, chief executive officer at Kaspersky Lab in Russia, speaks in a Kyodo News interview in Tokyo on Oct. 31, 2014, warning of possible cyberattacks on live telecasting equipment and other infrastructure facilities at the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in the Japanese capital based on his experience of some 100,000 such attacks during the Sochi Winter Olympics earlier this year.

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FINA's Marculescu checks Tatsumi pool for 2020 Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Cornel Marculescu (2nd from R), executive director of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), examines the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center on Oct. 27, 2014, for the 2020 Summer Olympic Games in Japan's capital.

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Japanese nurse recalls hard job to treat Ebola patients

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese nurse Junko Otaki recalls her experience at a talk in Tokyo on Oct. 23, 2014, in helping treat Ebola fever patients in the eastern Sierra Leone district of Kailahun this summer as a registered nurse at Doctors Without Borders, saying the protective suit she wore made her feel as if she were in a sauna.

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Tokyo 2020 President Mori unveils cost estimate

TOKYO, Japan - Former Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, president of the organizing committee for the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo, delivers a speech in the Japanese capital on Oct. 24, 2014, saying that nearly 1 trillion yen will be needed to implement the initial construction plan for the event.

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Takanashi wins summer ski jumping event for 4th year in row

SAPPORO, Japan - Sara Takanashi smiles on the podium after winning the women's segment of the Ito Cup summer ski jumping tournament for the fourth year in a row in Sapporo in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido on Oct. 19, 2014.

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50th anniversary of 1964 Tokyo Olympics celebrated

TOKYO, Japan - Participants numbering 1,964 pose during an event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games at Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium in the Japanese capital on Oct. 11, 2014.

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1964 Olympic medalist lights cauldron at anniversary event

TOKYO, Japan - Kiyoko Ono, a bronze medalist in the women's gymnastics team competition at the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, lights the cauldron during an event to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Summer Games in Tokyo's Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium on Oct. 11, 2014.

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Legendary gymnast Ono at Tokyo Olympics 50th anniv. event

TOKYO, Japan - Takashi Ono, a legendary Japanese gymnast, attends an event at a Tokyo hotel on Oct. 10, 2014, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in Japan's capital.

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Kimihara, Hayata discuss memories of 1964 Tokyo Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Takuji Hayata (L), a gold medalist in gymnastics at the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo, and marathoner Kenji Kimihara (C), who won silver at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City, discuss their memories of the sporting events during a talk show on Oct. 7, 2014, held in Tokyo to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Tokyo Olympics.

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Event marking 50th anniv. of 1964 Tokyo Olympics starts

TOKYO, Japan - Current and retired athletes pose on the opening day of a weeklong event in Tokyo on Oct. 6, 2014, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in the Japanese capital. From L: 2010 London Olympics middleweight boxing gold medalist Ryota Murata, Japanese Olympic Committee President Tsunekazu Takeda, artistic gymnastics legend Takashi Ono and 1992 Barcelona Paralympics swimming silver medalist Junichi Kawai.

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Event marking 50th anniv. of 1964 Tokyo Olympics starts

TOKYO, Japan - People gather for the opening in Tokyo on Oct. 6, 2014, of a weeklong event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games held in the Japanese capital.

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Event marking 50th anniv. of 1964 Tokyo Olympics starts

TOKYO, Japan - A weeklong event commemorating the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games begins in the Japanese capital on Oct. 6, 2014, exhibiting jackets, medals and other related items used in the Games.

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Japan, Britain to expand exchanges toward Tokyo Olympics

TOKYO, Japan - Japan National Tourism Organization President Ryoichi Matsuyama (L) and Christopher Rodrigues, chairman of VisitBritain, Britain's national tourism agency, shake hands at a hotel in Tokyo on Sept. 26, 2014, at a ceremony to sign a memorandum of understanding on expanding bilateral exchanges toward the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games.

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Japan, French players call for return of baseball at Olympics

PARIS, France - Japanese and French players call for bringing baseball back at the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympic Games at the international baseball tournament "Yoshida Challenge," an event named after Yoshio Yoshida (C), a former manager of Japanese professional baseball club Hanshin Tigers and the French national team, in the outskirts of Paris on Sept. 4, 2014.

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Record reveals Shinsengumi struggled in summer heat

KYOTO, Japan - A woman shows a temple record in Kyoto on Sept. 2, 2014, which revealed that Hijikata Toshizo, deputy commander of the Shinsengumi security force for the Edo shogunate, asked Nishi-Hongwanji, a Buddhist temple where the force was stationed between March 1865 to June 1867 in Kyoto, to provide more space for its members to give them relief from the scorching summer heat.

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Diving pool for 2004 Athens Olympics remains dry

ATHENS, Greece - The diving pool used at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens remains dry as seen in this file photo of Aug. 21, 2014.

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Facilities for 2004 Athens Olympics remain desolate

ATHENS, Greece - Facilities for the beach volleyball competition in Athens, like many others used at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in the Greek capital, remain abandoned as seen in this file photo of Aug. 21, 2014.