There are heavy rainy days At least 30 people have been killed in Beijing’s northern suburbs, state media reported Tuesday. China reportedly tackles yet another deadly rainy season characterized by extreme downpours, catastrophic floods and landslides.

Recently, severe storms have hit much of northern China. This is a dense section of a large metropolitan city and agricultural centre, a dense section of a home.

There, residents and their livelihoods have become increasingly vulnerable to worsening summer storms and flooding, as well as worsening heat waves and droughts. As the climate crisis causes extreme weather to get more frequent and more intense, it poses a major challenge for the Chinese government.

The thrilling rain escalated around China’s capital on Monday, killing 28 people in Miyun. Two more people were killed in Yangkin, reported by Chinese state broadcaster CCTV.

Footage circulating on social media shows brown floods cleaning residential communities, washing cars, knocking down electric poles and turning the streets towards Miyoon’s river.

It could complicate rescue operations, with dozens of roads being damaged in more than 100 small, rural villages, and downpours also blocking electricity.

More than 80,000 people have moved, including around 17,000 from Miyun.

Some residents have explained the horrors they have on social media. A woman from Miyun’s small town wrote on Chinese Instagram Xiaohongshu that she was filled with a “feeling of fear” on Monday night, with nearby rivers overflowing and erupting with trees, vehicles and construction debris.

“The place I grew up was destroyed overnight, and I never imagined that such devastation would occur within the capital,” she wrote.

Firefighters arrived Tuesday morning for rescue, and the communications team was still trying to retrieve telephone signals from remote locations, she said.

Some residents support Using boats and excavators, rescue efforts will be made to evacuate people trapped in the flood. A local man rescued 17 people on a boat, and another man used an excavator to safely move over 80 people, A Miyun resident told CCTV.

Authorities have discharged flood waters from Miyun’s reservoir on Monday to create space for rainy rapids as peak flows of the largest flood reached record highs, Xinhua reported.

According to a newcomer at the state communications agency, Beijing saw the average rainfall over the last few days of recent heavy rain. Maximum rainfall was recorded at 543 mm Miyun, roughly equaling the average annual rainfall in Beijing.

On Monday, Beijing issued the highest level of flood alerts, urging residents to move away from the spawning river. The city’s weather observatory also issued a red warning against storms. This is the highest in the four-tier system, warning of the “very high risk” of night rain, flash floods in mountainous areas, landslides and landslides.

Authorities have ordered schools, construction sites and scenic locations throughout the city to be closed, and all rural homestays and campsites should be stopped.

By Tuesday afternoon, rain had stopped in central Beijing and flooding began sinking into its suburbs.

According to CCTV, heavy rains and associated flooding and associated flooding and geological disasters have resulted in “severe casualties and loss of property” in Beijing, Hebei, Jilin and the northern provinces of Shandong.

XI has directed “full efforts” to search and rescue people who are still missing, to properly evacuate at risk residents and to make “full efforts” to minimize the greatest possible casualties.

Newly appointed Chinese ambassador David Purdue expressed his sadness towards the victims.

“It was a great disappointment to hear about the loss of life in China, including Beijing, due to heavy rain. We sincerely express our deepest condolences to those who lost their family and loved ones,” he wrote on Social Platform X.

The fatal rain and flooding came just two years after the Chinese capital was slammed by record-breaking rain that killed 33 people. In 2023, Beijing was hit by the heaviest rainfall of 140 years, unleashing serious flash floods in the western mountain suburbs.

Many states in northern China have reported deaths from heavy rain.

In Hebei province surrounding Beijing, landslides killed four people and lost eight more, state media reported Monday.

In nearby Shanghai, a bus carrying 14 people went missing near the village during a small Sunday. Authorities discovered the bodies of passengers downstream and were still searching for others, Xinhua reported.

In coastal Shandong Province, 19 homes in Foothill village were destroyed last week, killing two people, and another 10 people went missing after six months of rain fell in five hours a night.

At Hebei, some residents trapped in floods and landslides are seeking support on social media.

A woman from Yang Jatai, a mountain village in Chendae city in Hebei province near Miyun, said her village was hit by floods and landslides, knocking down the house, cutting out the roads and knocking out electricity and traffic lights.

She escapes from the village to seek help. “Most people are not evacuated. Only a few people can come out to communicate with the outside world and bring some supplies back,” she said.

Haicen Yang and Martha Zhou contributed the report.

Kostiantynivka, Ukraine
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The final lifeline to the besieged town along the eastern frontline of the Ukrainian army is increasingly caught up in deadly and sophisticated drone warfare nets, relying on technology, fishing nets from thousands of years ago.

The nets strung on poles along the roadside provide Ukrainian troops cover from Russian drones that often circulate deep into the territory as small, explosive devices become caught up in tough strings.

There is little of this low-tech defense against a more important high-tech threat than Kostiantinibka, one of the three frontline towns where Ukrainian troops are Russia’s summer offensive and rapidly transforming progressive profits into strategic advantages.

The Ukrainian commander defending the region told CNN that he had not received new units for eight months and had replenished only frontline positions.

Near Kostiantynivka, locals pass unsettled by the gaps they made on the net – their daily needs are more important than net protection – holes can be exploited by more skilled Russian drone operators. Sudnyi Den, an elite drone unit in Moscow, posts videos of the drone online, sometimes working in pairs. Footage from July 20th shows one drone attacking a Ukrainian SUV, another drone sitting on nearby gravel, waiting for another target.

According to officials from the city of Kostiantynivka, four civilians were killed and 31 injured last week due to the Russian strike. Children have been evacuated, and more than 8,000 civilians remain in the town itself.

That street is scattered with cars attacked by Russian drones last month when they reached the area of Russian advance. Even at the town’s safer edge, the white minivan was abandoned, and its passenger side was crumpled from a drone strike just hours before Saturday. The local governor said the vehicle driver was killed on Sunday despite the drone explosives not explosive.

Living nearby is not a fishing net, but a thin string entanglement that defines a fiber optic cable, rather than a fishing net used to prevent drones from being clogged. Russian and Ukrainian operators remain physically attached to several drones using thin glass wires of razors of dozens of kilometers.

Shuffling past the ruins is Tatiana, who is returning from her old house on the outskirts of town. “It’s heavy, it’s really heavy,” she said. “There’s no one on the street. I have no other place to go.”

Over the past week, Russian troops have moved southwest, within eight kilometres of the southeastern edge of the town, according to mappings by the Open Source Monitor Deep State. Maintaining progressive progress at the expense of large casualties has long been a hallmark of Moscow’s war effort, but simultaneous progress around the eastern towns of Pokrovsk and Kostiannibka, as well as further north, Kupiansk risks re-transforming the claims of the Donet region of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Kostiantynivka’s central market is an oasis of activities that locals bust to gather food despite the risks of drones and artillery fire. Many people are reluctant to photograph their faces. This indicates that if the town is quickly occupied, you may be afraid to be labeled Proklenian. “Now they’re bombing us,” a reference to the fear that Russian troops use news footage to help target them said one elderly woman.

Another man who didn’t give his name, an Azerbaijani native who sells fruits, declared loudly, “glory to Ukraine” and “glory to heroes.” “What do you see?” he asked. “I’m not calm today. Of course I took a photo.”

The control of the sky is underground. Local commander Vasyl cleans up the banks of monitors in the underground room. The war is currently divided into two parts. Hunted by the dreaded frontline drones, the hunters themselves, drone operation bunkers and positions are frequently attacked by airstrikes. On the screen behind Vasyl, mushroom clouds are digging holes in the sky. It’s a Russian airstrike that is about to target Ukrainian operators.

His lasting problem is the people. For eight months, Vasil from the 93rd Mechanized Brigade has not been sent any new personnel. “We have a significant shortage of personnel. No one wants to fight. The war is over (for them).

The remaining infantry in Vasyl occasionally holds positions in pairs and is delivered food, water and ammunition in the semi-light of dawn or dusk when the larger Ukrainian vampire quadcopter drone can fly. “We’ll load up 10 kilograms of supplies,” he said. “And it flies 12-15 km carrying supply. Food, ammunition, batteries, radio station chargers.” The frontline position is so vulnerable to Russian drones that mortar teams often need to walk for hours on foot, Vasyl carries 30 kilograms of ammunition and equipment.

The commander said the new Russian drone team, known as the Rubicon unit, is a well-trained professional, sometimes another drone flying over a Ukrainian device, hanging tangled with the rotors to crash the Ukrainian drone.

Vasyl said there is inadequate communication from the frontline of the nature of the military issue. “A lot hasn’t been told, it’s hidden,” he said. “We don’t tell a lot to the states. Our state doesn’t tell a lot to people.”

“You need to be there to understand the situation,” he said. “When you say the situation is difficult, no one understands it. You have to be in our shoes. We are tired. Everyone is tired of this war.

A Colombian judge on Monday convicted former President Alvaro Uribe of process abuse and bribery of civil servants, and announced bribery of civil servants in a long-term witness tampering case, making him the country’s first former president of the country’s trial.

Judge Sandra Liliana Heredia read her decision aloud to the court for about 10 hours. She discovered that the right-wing politician was not guilty of another bribery charge.

The ruling that Uribe is expected to appeal is the latest decision in a highly politicized case that has been carried out for nearly 13 years.

The decision comes less than a year after Colombia’s 2026 presidential election. In this presidential election, some of Uribe’s allies and disciples compete for the country’s top offices.

Uribe, 73, and his supporters say the process is persecution and that he is innocent. His detractors celebrated it as a deserved downfall for a man who has been repeatedly accused of close ties with violent right-wing paramilitary groups, but has never been found guilty of a crime.

Each claim has a sentence of 6 to 12 years. Heredia is expected to declare Uribe at a later hearing.

“Justice doesn’t kneel before power,” Heredia spent about nine hours reading her decision after telling the court on Monday morning. “It lies in the service of the people of Colombia.”

“We want to say that justice has arrived in Colombia,” she said. She added that her complete decision is about 1,000 pages in length.

Uribe and one of his lawyers, Jaime Granados, attended the hearing via video link, with another lawyer, Jaime Lombana, appearing in person.

“This is not the end of this process. The appeal is next and we intend to demonstrate that this decision we respect is wrong,” Juan Felipe Amaya, an attorney who is part of Uribe’s legal team, told a court journalist.

Granados told the hearing that Uribe’s presumption of innocence should be maintained, and asked him to remain free for the rest of the process.

Defenders and supporters of the former president gathered outside the courthouse, with several urine supporters flaunting masks on his face.

Even if the conviction is ultimately upheld, Uribe may be allowed to serve his sentence under house arrest due to his age.

Uribe, president from 2002 to 2010 and overseeing military attacks on left-wing guerrilla groups, was investigated with several allies over allegations of eyewitness tampering that were made to discredit the charges he was associated with paramilitary groups.

The judge rejected two prosecutors’ requests to shelve the case arising from Uribe’s 2012 allegations that left senator Ivan Sepeda coordinated a conspiracy to link him to the paramilitary.

The Supreme Court said in 2018 that Cepeda had gathered information from former fighters as part of his job and had not paid or oppressed the former paramilitary organization. Instead, the court said it was Uribe and his allies who put pressure on the witnesses.

Cepeda attended the hearing in person with his lawyer.

Uribe’s trial sparked acute criticism from Secretary of State Marco Rubio ahead of the judge’s decision. During his two terms as president, Uribe had close ties with the United States.

“Uribe’s only crime was to fight and defend his homeland tirelessly. The weaponization of Colombian judicial branch by radical judges has now set a worrying precedent,” Rubio said in X.

“The decision against the former president has been able to generate some sort of retaliation by the US government,” Banco de Bogota said in a memo on Monday, referring to the proposal to partially reduce non-military aid to Colombia by U.S. Republican Rep. Mario Diaz Barato on concerns about violating due process cases in urinary cases.

After two months of house arrest in 2020, Uribe was the head of the powerful Democratic Centre party and was a senator for years before and after his presidency.

He repeatedly emphasizes that he handed over the paramilitary leader to the United States.

Colombia’s Truth Commission says a paramilitary group, which was demobilized under a deal with the Uribe government, killed more than 205,000 people, killing almost half of the 450,000 deaths recorded during the ongoing civil war.

Paramilitary groups, along with guerrilla groups and military members, committed forced disappearances, sexual violence, evacuation and other crimes.

Uribe joined the list of convicted and sometimes imprisoned Latin American leaders, including Alberto Fujimori of Peru, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil, Rafael Correa of Ecuador, Christina Fernandez of Argentina, and Ricardo Martinelli of Panama.

This is an evolving story that will be updated and updated.

If anything his latest statement takes, President Donald Trump’s loss of patience with the Kremlin appears to be gathering pace.

Speaking from a golf resort in Turnberry, Scotland, along with British Prime Minister Kiel’s Preferred, Trump unexpectedly shortened the 50-day deadline in Moscow, imposed two weeks ago, agreeing to a peace deal with Ukraine or facing harsh new economic sanctions.

“Yeah, I’m going to have a new deadline of about 10 or 12 from today,” Trump told reporters Monday.

“There’s no reason to wait. I want to be generous, but I don’t think there’s a right progress,” the president added.

In that case, it is not clear why Trump decided to wait another 10-12 days before carrying out his threat of imposing high tariffs on Russia and imposing severe secondary sanctions on Russian oil-buying countries.

But that is the latest indication that Trump is well-known for his infamous flip-floping rhetoric in the Ukrainian war, which has been rushing for months while Kiev and Moscow denounce the continued bloodshed, and now appears to have taken a more consistent tone that is generally critical of the actions of the Kremlin and its powerful leader, Vladimir Putin.

“We thought it had settled down many times, and then Putin goes outside and starts launching rockets in cities like Kiev, killing a lot of people in nursing homes and more,” Trump said earlier Monday.

Trump also renewed the threat of tariffs and sanctions and pondered whether the Kremlin would surrender.

“You’re probably thinking that you’d want to make a deal based on common sense. We’ll know,” Trump said.

But after years of stubborn refusal to compromise, the suspense has killed no one.

The Kremlin has consistently ruled out ending wars in Ukraine until it achieved its greatest objective. These include the imposition of strict military and foreign policy restrictions on postwar Ukraine, which has acquired a vast Swas of yet-unconquered Ukrainian territory and essentially conquering Kiev to the Moscow will.

The threat of sanctions against Russia, already one of the world’s most authorized countries, is unlikely.

Just moving that threat forward over weeks, as Trump is doing now, could have little impact on the Kremlin’s tough calculations, especially given that sanctions threatened by Trump are widely regarded as toothless or impossible to implement in Russia.

For example, 100% threatened tariffs on Trump’s Russian exports are considered virtually meaningless in countries that trade worth billions of dollars each year.

Potentially important is Trump’s threat to punish tariffs or secondary sanctions on countries that buy Russia’s oil. But the biggest importers of that product are of course India and China. Turkey is a major client, as is the case with many European states. Moscow has serious doubts that even Trump will launch the United States into a global trade war over Ukraine’s issues.

And even in the unforgiving events of Chinese, Indians and Turks, everyone who agrees to stop buying Russian oil is profound. It could possibly rob global inflation at US pumps, as well as gasoline prices, causing crude prices.

Even before the US President’s latest remarks, Kremlin insiders were publicly scoffing Trump’s ultimatum.

“50 days! Previously it was 24 hours. Previously it was 100 days. We’ve been through all of this,” Russian veteran foreign minister Sergei Lavrov took to SN earlier this month.

Now, the latest 10-12-day window has sparked even stronger rebuttals.

“Russia’s actual reaction to Trump’s ultimatum is the same as all ultimatums in the last 500 years,” Russian political analyst Sergei Markov wrote in Telegram.

“Walking! I’m going to hell,” he added.

Colombian President Alvaro Uribe was found guilty of bribery in an eyewitness tampering case. He was South America’s first former president and was criminally convicted.

The verdict was issued by Judge Sandra Heredia of the 44th Criminal Court in Bogota. He concluded that there was enough evidence to convict a former president, a member of the opposition Centro Democrats. The judge is still reading the sentence.

Since the investigation into him began in 2018, Uribe has pleaded not guilty to all charges. He maintained his position throughout the 67-day trial, during which he clashed with Senator Ivan Sepeda of the Historico Party of the Ruling Agreement.

In 2012, Uribe accused Cepeda of trying to link him to the creation of a paramilitary group — Cepeda refused — but the Colombian Supreme Court ruled that Uribe should be investigated for tampering with witnesses.

This is a developing story and will be updated.