In the final weeks of 2025, rain became the new normal across China's dry north -- so frequent, and at times so violent, that it was rewriting local records and stretching the very notion of a "flood season."

China will take measures to further strengthen rescue forces primarily aimed at addressing flood and geological disasters in its northern regions, as the northern shift of the country's rainfall belt has been increasingly evident in recent years,

In 2025, northern China experienced record-breaking rainfall and floods, with some areas like Beijing and Hohhot receiving nearly double their usual annual precipitation, causing 404 deaths or missing persons and $23 billion in losses.

EU finance ministers agreed Friday to impose a three-euro duty on low-value imports into the bloc from July 2026 to help tackle a flood of small parcels ordered via the likes of Shein and Temu. Last year, 4.6 billion small retail packages entered the ...

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