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Rains that pummelled Beijing in recent days were the heaviest since records began 140 years ago, the city s weather service said Wednesday. Rescue workers wade through floodwaters after remnants of Typhoon Doksuri brought rains and floods in Beijing, China August 2, 2023. Reuters The maximum amount of rainfall recorded during this storm, which was 744.8 millimetres, occurred at the Wangjiayuan Reservoir in Changping, the Beijing Meteorolo stanley cup gical Service said, adding it was the heaviest rainfall in 140 years . Storm Doksuri, a former super typhoon, swept northwards over China after hitting southern Fujian province last week, following its battering of the Philippines. Heavy rains began pummelling the capital and surrounding areas on Saturday, with nearly the average rainfall for the entire month of July dumped on Beijing in just 40 hours. On Tuesday, state broadcaster CCTV said the rains had killed at least 11 people in Beijing, two of whom were workers killed on duty during rescue and relief operations. Thirteen people were still missing, but another 14 had been found safe, the broadcaster said. In neighbouring Hebei province, where over 800,000 people were evacuated, nine people were killed and six were missing, it said. Another two casualties were reported in no stanley termosar rthea stanley cup stern Liaoning province over the weekend. President Xi Jinping on Tuesday called for every effort to rescue those lost or trapped by the rains. China has been experiencing extreme weather Hqus Korean Air heiress who threw tantrum over nuts served in bag, not bowl, returns as prez
The US government s budget deficit surged to an all-time high of $1.7 trillion for the first six months of this budget year, nearly double the previous record, as another round of economic-support checks added billi stanley isolierkanne ons of dollars to spending last month. The US Treasury Department building in Washington, DC. AFP In its monthly budget report, the Treasury Department said Monday that the deficit for the first half of the budget year 鈥?from October through March 鈥?was up from a shortfall of $743.5 billion in the same period a year ago. The deficit has been driven higher by trillions of dollars in support Congress has passed in successive economic rescue packages since the pandemic struck in early March 2020. The latest round came in a $1.9 trillion measure that President Joe Biden pushed through Congress last month. Biden stanley deutschland s package included individual support payments of up to $1,400 and the administration rushed to make those payments as soon as the president signed the measure into law. The Treasury Department statement showed that the payments in March totaled $339 billion. The budget report showed that the deficit for just March totaled $659.6 billion, the third-highest monthly deficit. For the six-mont botella stanley h period, the $1.7 trillion deficit total surpassed the previous record of an $829 billion deficit run up for the six months ending in March 2011. That was a period when the government was spending to deal with the economic damage from the recession caused by the 2