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BERLIN (AP) — The Wacken Open Air heavy metal festival in northern Germany is opening on Wednesday with a reduced audience after persistent rain turned the grounds to mud and forced organizers to order a halt to all new arrivals.

BEIJING (AP) — Torrential rain in areas around China's capital, Beijing, killed at least 20 people and left 27 missing, the government reported Tuesday, as flooding destroyed roads, uprooted trees and knocked out power.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran announced a nationwide two-day holiday because of increasing temperatures , state media reported Tuesday.

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In early 2022, nearly 200,000 Malawians were displaced after two tropical storms struck the southeastern part of Africa barely a month apart. Sixty-four people died.

OSOYOOS, B.C. — More residents of Osoyoos, B.C., and the surrounding area are being allowed to return home after being forced out by a fast-moving wildfire that spread from neighbouring Washington state over the weekend.

The Royal Ontario Museum says it has discovered the oldest-known swimming jellyfish in the fossil record from specimens collected at the Burgess Shale in the Canadian Rockies.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — It was an unusually scorching winter day in Buenos Aires Tuesday, with thermometers in Argentina's capital crossing the 30-degree Celsius mark (86 degrees Fahrenheit), the hottest start of August in 117 years of records

British Columbia's wildfire season is the most destructive on record, with more than 15,000square kilometres of the province burned, surpassing the previous high of 13,543 square kilometres set in 2018.

MONTREAL — A team of divers combing the watery depths off Quebec's Îles-de-la-Madeleine this summer say they have discovered seven new shipwrecks that likely date to the 1800s.