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    One in two families in drought-affected Iraq need food assistance

    Families in rural parts of the war-torn country say their only source of living is vanishing in front of their eyes as their lands...

    Ecological concerns emerge as Nepal’s bird census gets underway

    Emerging global problems like climate change, urbanization and pollution are causing changes to bird migratory patterns and their arrival in Nepal. The endangered woolly neck...

    Surviving on a diet of rice, oil and beans – and hunger, insecurities and COVID-19

    Squatters on the outskirts of Myanmar’s capital city, Yangon, juggle their need for food with the fear of eviction. Their existence get yet further...

    Disabled, jobless and vulnerable: The story of a woman Afghan prosecutor

    The former Afghan prosecutor is today jobless and is living in fear and in penury. That she is a woman and is disabled only...

    The last seven years have been the warmest since records were maintained. The slugfest between farm and fossil-fuel guzzling industry goes on.

    With its report on the heightening of temperatures over the past seven years, the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service report tends to put...

    Banners in Kabul order women to cover themselves

    Posters have come up all over Kabul city conveying the Taliban's message to women instructing them to wear the all-encompassing burqa and the black...

    Climate Change Leaves Residents of Pakistan’s Parachinar Valley Thirsty

    Pakistan's scenic Parachinar valley is running out of water because the surrounding hills have not received enough snowfall due to the changing climate. The...

    Taliban feel a bath in a hammam is not a good idea. Ban women from using public bathhouses

    Afghanistan's Taliban, known for their strict observance of Islamic codes, have banned women and men from using hammams, or public bathhouses, in the Balkh...

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