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Another conflict at the heart of Yemen: water crisis
Nov 7 2009, Saber

While domestic insurgencies chip away at the control of Yemen’s central government and an Al Qaeda branch gains strength in regions beyond the government’s reach, another crisis — one that affects Yemen’s entire population — has the potential to...

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Afghan Senate to Assess Pakistan’s Ill-treatment of Afghan Refugees
Ikramuddin Bahram, Peshawar
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The Millionaire Congress
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Congress today is without a doubt an elite institution. A new survey states that 44% members of Congress are millionaires compared to 1% of the American public. That...
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Hindi faces hostility!
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A Swedish Diplomat Was Asked to Leave Morocco
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Christian extremism - Scott Roeder justifies why he killed abortion Dr. Scott Tiller
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Palestinians To Declare State?
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Asokananda Prosad, kharagpur town
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OJASWI, Kolkata
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Fighting illiteracy or discouraging high education?
Mohammed Taha, BS
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Chavez Threatens Columbia with War
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Conditions are fastly declining in Venezuela. Inflation is up, water and power supply are down, and Chavez is becoming more and more unpopular with his current rating...
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The voices of reason- Anti-Shariah March in London
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Riots in Al-Tafayleh Neighborhood-Jordan
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Netanyahu's Secret Meeting with Obama
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Venezuela rations water in response to drought
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Mexicans urged to treat water like 'One of the Family'
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Kenya dying of food and water
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Dead Sea peril: sinkholes swallow up the unwary
Yinon, Jerusalem
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In Ecuador, a fight for safe, affordable water
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Is this the start of the water wars...where is the Aravali range going?
Hariharan Iyyer, Bombay
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A season of water-woes: Bihar woman dies of thirst
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