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...Mayor Todd Gloria declared a state of emergency because of the flooding....
...Hebei province announced the release of floodwaters from a local dam on Wednesday, the eighth discharge since rainfall soaked the Hai river basin four days ago, in a move which some commentators criticised...
...The city sits on the fertile Fraser River delta, mirroring the rich farmland of Guangzhou’s Pearl River delta....
...I actually saw Gloria Vanderbilt around that time, in a New York restaurant called Serendipity 3, which is still around today....
...electric train or aboard a cable car: a heart-in-mouth ascent that begins at the waterfall-fringed village of Lauterbrunnen at the foot of the Bernese Alps and ends at the summit of Schilthorn, home to Piz Gloria...
...The Yangtze River, China’s largest and most important waterway, last week hit its lowest level on record for this time of year, according to the water resources ministry....
...Cities along dried-out parts of the river, including Chongqing and Wuhan, have fired metal canisters into the air to seed clouds and induce condensation....
...The river was so low near Chongqing that 600-year-old Buddhist statues which had been underwater for centuries were exposed....
...A record months-long heatwave, with temperatures reaching a high of 43.4C in Chengdu on Sunday, has emptied rivers and dams in Hubei and Sichuan provinces, which rely on hydropower....
...Gloria Sheppard, 57, who bought a home in Embassy Gardens with her husband in April, has a very different take. “For us the area — and particularly the building — was perfect,” she says....
...The coronavirus curbs will be applied to Puxi, west of the Huangpu river where Shanghai’s main shopping and entertainment areas are located, from April 1 to April 5....
...Additional reporting by Xueqiao Wang in Shanghai and Gloria Li in Hong Kong...
...Everything Bach wrote was for the glory of God and dedicated to him at the end of each manuscript: Soli Deo Gloria. There is Lutheran stolidity in this barnlike late Gothic hall-church....
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao in Shanghai, Gloria Li in Hong Kong and Sun Yu in Beijing...
...The quiet two-block stretch of uniformed doormen and minor consulates, set back from the East River just north of the UN building, was once home to Irving Berlin, Rex Harrison and Gloria Vanderbilt, she...
...He points to the fashion designer Emily Bode and her furniture-designer partners Aaron Aujla and Ben Bloomstein, who operate under the name Green River Project....
...They have long had a home in the West Village, but now spend as many weekends as possible at the property they bought a couple of years ago, a short drive from Garrison on the Hudson River....
...Her subjects include Gloria Steinem, the American feminist, Lawrence Summers, the former US Treasury secretary, and one or two Russian oligarchs with whom Freeland — our Moscow bureau chief during the Yeltsin...
...Its $1.5bn new building on the banks of the Delaware River wasn’t supposed to open until next year....
...For a decade, Roccasecca has battled powerful interests as she campaigned against the dumping of toxic industrial waste in the nearby Sacco river....
...Sic transit gloria mundi. The two artists shared more than a generalised nostalgia or a depressive outlook....
...Ecuadorian Amazon, who travelled to New York to address BlackRock shareholders: “The survival of Amazonian indigenous peoples depends on the health of our forest, rivers, mountains, plants and animals....
...Additional reporting by Gloria Cheung...
...Additional reporting by Gloria Cheung in Hong Kong...
...“This instrument has been used as religious propaganda, but soli Deo gloria [glory to God alone] is not what it’s all about....
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