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Two people were dead and more than 100,000 homes and businesses in New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania were without electricity Friday morning after severe thunderstorms swept through the region late Thursday.

The Chinese capital's heaviest rainstorm in six decades killed at least 37 people, flooded streets and stranded 80,000 people at the main airport, state media and the government said on Sunday.

Heavy rain sent landslides barreling through South Korea, killing 17 and leaving at least three missing, officials said.

More than 1,000 people have died or disappeared in severe flooding in China so far this year, and the heaviest rains are still to come, a senior official warned Wednesday.

Organizers shortened the world's fastest luge track Saturday for safety after a crash killed a Georgian Olympian, as athletes prepared for the first day of competition at a Games plagued by warm weather and rain.