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Today — 13 December 2025Main stream

In a Hamlet Built on Forbidden Love, a Cyclone Buried It All

Three generations of a family built their homes and lives in Sri Lanka’s highland tea country. The biggest storm in decades wiped out their hamlet in a landslide.

Villagers carrying bodies for burial at a cemetery in Kandy in Sri Lanka.

Record Flooding Swamps Western Washington

Gov. Bob Ferguson and other state officials cautioned that more rainfall was expected after rivers hit record flood levels across the region, while residents worried about the long-term future.

© Grant Hindsley for The New York Times

Floodwaters overtook Skykomish River Park and some nearby apartments in Monroe, Wash., on Thursday night.
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British Columbia Flooding Forces Hundreds to Evacuate

By: John Yoon
12 December 2025 at 05:04
The atmospheric river over the Pacific Northwest brought a deluge to British Columbia, forcing road closures and evacuations in Canada.

© CTV News

A closed road in Fraser Valley, British Columbia.
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