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"India Acts As First Responder": 15-Tonne Aid Lands In Quake-Hit Myanmar
The relief material includes tents, sleeping bags, blankets, ready-to-eat meals, water purifiers, hygiene kits, solar lamps, generator sets and essential medicines.
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2 Dead As Cops Use Tear Gas, Sticks To Break Up Pro-Monarchy Rally In Nepal
Nepali riot police lobbed tear gas, fired water cannon and used rattan sticks on Friday to break up a protest rally demanding the restoration of constitutional monarchy, and at least two people were killed in the violence, police said.
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Video: Police Clash With Pro-Monarchy Demonstrators In Nepal's Kathmandu
Nepal police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of people gathered in Kathmandu demanding the restoration of the monarchy, prompting authorities to impose a curfew in the area.
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Panic In Myanmar, Bangkok As Buildings Collapse, Airport Damaged In Quake
Collapsed bridges and buildings, shaking skyscrapers with water from infinity pools falling hundreds of feet to the ground - scenes that followed a big 7.7 earthquake in central Myanmar that led to tremors in northern Bangkok and southwestern China.
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Watch: Pikachu Joins Turkey Uprising Against Erdogan, Flees When Cops Show Up
Amid the smoke, water cannons, and chaos of Turkey's mass protests, a flash of yellow darted through the streets of Antalya. It wasn't a protest banner or a flare - it was Pikachu.
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China's Glacial Area Shrinks 26% In 60 Years, 7,000 Glaciers Disappear
China is staring at a water crisis in the mid-to-long term after the latest climate data showed a rapidly depleting glacial count. As many as 7,000 glaciers have disappeared completely, with the pace of glacial retreat accelerating year-on-year.
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Why Water From Purifier Left Chinese Woman With A Damaged Liver
A Chinese woman who had been drinking wastewater for five years due to a pipe mix-up suffered liver damage.
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India, China Review LAC Status In Beijing. Here's What They Agreed On
India and China held a high-level meeting in Beijing today where both sides discussed the boundary issue is great detail.
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Chinese Woman Jumps Off Hospital Roof After Doctor Messes Up Tooth Extraction
The woman was unable to eat and survived by only drinking water after the botched operation.
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Brazil Is Losing Surface Water To Climate Change, Land Conversion
Brazil is home to 12 per cent of Earth's freshwater reserves, much of it in the Amazon, but is losing natural surface water as climate change and land conversion from forest to farming take their toll, a report said Friday.
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How Melting Glaciers Threaten Biodiversity, Lives And Water Resources
Glacial melting can result in nuclear power plant shutdowns, agriculture and water resources being put at risk, and coastal cities being threatened by flooding.
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Safe For Drinking: These Places Offer Cleanest And Best-Tasting Tap Water In The World
From New York to Scotland, travellers need not purchase bottled water in these places as the tap water is clean and even has a great taste, according to a recent report.
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PM Modi Offers Gangajal From Maha Kumbh Into Grand Bassin In Mauritius
In a symbolic gesture of cultural and spiritual connection, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday mixed the sacred waters of the Ganges, brought from the Prayagraj Mahakumbh, into the Ganga Talao (Grand Bassin) at Port Louis in Mauritius.
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'Climate Whiplash' Hitting World's Cities Amid Rising Temperatures: Study
The weather in some of the world's most densely populated cities is swinging from droughts to floods and back again as rising temperatures play havoc with the global water cycle, a study commissioned by the charity WaterAid showed on Wednesday.
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Video: NASA Launches SPHEREx Telescope To Explore Universe's Origins
A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and to scour the Milky Way galaxy for hidden reservoirs of water, a key ingredient for life.
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"India Acts As First Responder": 15-Tonne Aid Lands In Quake-Hit Myanmar
The relief material includes tents, sleeping bags, blankets, ready-to-eat meals, water purifiers, hygiene kits, solar lamps, generator sets and essential medicines.
-
2 Dead As Cops Use Tear Gas, Sticks To Break Up Pro-Monarchy Rally In Nepal
Nepali riot police lobbed tear gas, fired water cannon and used rattan sticks on Friday to break up a protest rally demanding the restoration of constitutional monarchy, and at least two people were killed in the violence, police said.
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Video: Police Clash With Pro-Monarchy Demonstrators In Nepal's Kathmandu
Nepal police fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse thousands of people gathered in Kathmandu demanding the restoration of the monarchy, prompting authorities to impose a curfew in the area.
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Panic In Myanmar, Bangkok As Buildings Collapse, Airport Damaged In Quake
Collapsed bridges and buildings, shaking skyscrapers with water from infinity pools falling hundreds of feet to the ground - scenes that followed a big 7.7 earthquake in central Myanmar that led to tremors in northern Bangkok and southwestern China.
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Watch: Pikachu Joins Turkey Uprising Against Erdogan, Flees When Cops Show Up
Amid the smoke, water cannons, and chaos of Turkey's mass protests, a flash of yellow darted through the streets of Antalya. It wasn't a protest banner or a flare - it was Pikachu.
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China's Glacial Area Shrinks 26% In 60 Years, 7,000 Glaciers Disappear
China is staring at a water crisis in the mid-to-long term after the latest climate data showed a rapidly depleting glacial count. As many as 7,000 glaciers have disappeared completely, with the pace of glacial retreat accelerating year-on-year.
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Why Water From Purifier Left Chinese Woman With A Damaged Liver
A Chinese woman who had been drinking wastewater for five years due to a pipe mix-up suffered liver damage.
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India, China Review LAC Status In Beijing. Here's What They Agreed On
India and China held a high-level meeting in Beijing today where both sides discussed the boundary issue is great detail.
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Chinese Woman Jumps Off Hospital Roof After Doctor Messes Up Tooth Extraction
The woman was unable to eat and survived by only drinking water after the botched operation.
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Brazil Is Losing Surface Water To Climate Change, Land Conversion
Brazil is home to 12 per cent of Earth's freshwater reserves, much of it in the Amazon, but is losing natural surface water as climate change and land conversion from forest to farming take their toll, a report said Friday.
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How Melting Glaciers Threaten Biodiversity, Lives And Water Resources
Glacial melting can result in nuclear power plant shutdowns, agriculture and water resources being put at risk, and coastal cities being threatened by flooding.
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Safe For Drinking: These Places Offer Cleanest And Best-Tasting Tap Water In The World
From New York to Scotland, travellers need not purchase bottled water in these places as the tap water is clean and even has a great taste, according to a recent report.
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PM Modi Offers Gangajal From Maha Kumbh Into Grand Bassin In Mauritius
In a symbolic gesture of cultural and spiritual connection, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday mixed the sacred waters of the Ganges, brought from the Prayagraj Mahakumbh, into the Ganga Talao (Grand Bassin) at Port Louis in Mauritius.
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'Climate Whiplash' Hitting World's Cities Amid Rising Temperatures: Study
The weather in some of the world's most densely populated cities is swinging from droughts to floods and back again as rising temperatures play havoc with the global water cycle, a study commissioned by the charity WaterAid showed on Wednesday.
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Video: NASA Launches SPHEREx Telescope To Explore Universe's Origins
A NASA telescope was launched into space from California on Tuesday for a mission to explore the origins of the universe and to scour the Milky Way galaxy for hidden reservoirs of water, a key ingredient for life.
