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The storm made landfall in Zhejiang province with winds of 151 kph before weakening, but its rains set a 150-year record in Shanghai and grounded hundreds of flights as the system pushes north toward Beijing.
Ukraine's president said Pyongyang has decided to send tens of thousands more soldiers to fight alongside Russian forces, and he pressed South Korea to help Kyiv with air defenses in response.
China issued its highest typhoon alert and moved nearly 100,000 people to safety as the storm, already blamed for injuries in Japan, threatens major flooding in Zhejiang and neighboring provinces.
The storm injured several people and cut power to tens of thousands of buildings in southern Japan before turning toward Zhejiang and Fujian provinces, where China has shut ports, grounded flights and suspended ferries.
