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BBC News
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Tens of millions of people could be driven from their homes by encroaching deserts, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and Central Asia, a report says.
The study by the United Nations University suggests climate change is making desertification "the gr..
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Al Jazeera
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About 50,000 Iraqis are leaving their homes each month and hundreds of thousands more may soon follow, fearing prolonged instability in the country, according to a report by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR)...
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BBC News
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Millions of people in Pakistan's largest city have been without electricity, following a power outage.
Pakistan's state-run utility said it had cut supplies to Karachi because the city's power company had not paid its bills. Outages occurred in the mor..
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BBC News
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Millions of people across South Asia are still facing hunger after some of the worst floods in decades, amid fears of disease and fights over supplies.
Indian Home Minister Shivraj Patil and Congress party head Sonia Gandhi were due to visit the worst-..
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FOX News
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The harmful effects of global warming on daily life are already showing up, and within a couple of decades hundreds of millions of people won't have enough water, top scientists will say next month at a meeting in Belgium.
At the same time, tens of mil..
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Zaman
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Millions of Muslims, crowded onto Mout Ararat Friday to perform their Hajj rituals. Nearly 3.5 million Muslims pilgrims prayed to God for forgiveness...
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