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India's Water Crunch Brews Risks For Beverage Giants
Laws in India, the world's most populous nation, bar the movement of liquor across state borders without a special permit, effectively forcing companies to set up production in every state they want to sell in despite the water scarcity.
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Unclean Water, Power Cuts In Cell: UN Expert Criticises Imran Khan's Wife's Detention Condition In Pak
United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture has criticised the detention conditions of former Pakistan Prime Minsiter's wife, Bushra Bibi Khan, stating that the conditions fall far below minimum international standards.
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How Much Water Does AI Use? Consumption Now Exceeds World’s Bottled Water, Suggests New Study
Anthropic has released an open-source tool called Bloom to test how AI models behave under normal and stressful conditions. Bloom automates behavioural testing by generating scenarios, running them at scale, and scoring responses for traits like bias or sycophancy. Anthropic says it simplifies a process that was previously manual and time-consuming...
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5 Dead As Mexican Navy Plane On Medical Mission Crashes
A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a young medical patient and seven others crashed Monday near Galveston, killing at least five people and setting off a search in the waters off the Texas coast, officials said.
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Trouble Mounts For Pakistan With Taliban's New Move Over Cross-Border River
Pakistan's mounting water crisis is likely to worsen, as the Taliban government in Afghanistan has decided to move ahead with its plans to divert water from the Kunar River towards the Nangarhar region in the country
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'Jailed Imran Khan, Gave Life-Time Immunity To Asim Munir': India Slams Pak At UN
India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, called out Islamabad's "obsessive focus on harming India and its people."
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Opinion | A City Without Water Is A Harbinger Of A Thirsty Planet
In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn and quinoa accompanied the spread of civilization in East Asia and the Americas.
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7 Most Unbelievable Animal Stories Of 2025
7 Most Unbelievable Animal Stories: 2025 was a remarkable year with even more incredible animal stories that caught the world's attention.
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Highly Contagious Virus Hits Luxury Cruise Ship, Infects Over 100 Passengers And Crew
Norovirus is highly contagious and spreads easily through contaminated food, water, and surfaces.
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Watch: Beluga Whale Splashes Man Smoking At Aquarium In China, Internet Cheers
The man was seen lighting a cigarette while standing with his back to the beluga pool, despite being in a no-smoking zone.
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Weeks After Louvre Jewel Heist, Water Leak Damages 400 Egyptian Artifacts
A water leak in late November damaged several hundred works in the Louvre's Egyptian department, the Paris museum told AFP on Sunday, weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised concerns over its infrastructure.
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Is Earth Really Getting Too Hot To Live? Scientist Explains Climate Change
Hot air evaporates a lot more water, so crops, forests and landscapes in some areas dry out, which makes them more susceptible to wildfire. Each Celsius degree of warming can cause a sixfold increase in wildfire over parts of the western US.
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Flood-Hit Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia Struggle For Water, Food
Torrential monsoon season deluges paired with two separate tropical cyclones last week dumped heavy rain across all of Sri Lanka and parts of Indonesia's Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia.
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Why One Of The Last Least-Visited Places On Earth Is Fast Turning A Tourist Hotspot
The Moon meets Mars in Saudi Arabia's AlUla, one of the last places on earth that saw no tourists till a few years ago
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Indonesia Residents Steal Food, Water For Survival Amid Floods
Some residents of the flood-hit Indonesian island of Sumatra have resorted to stealing food and water to survive, authorities said Sunday, while Sri Lankan officials said deaths from floods and mudslides in that island nation have risen to 193.
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India's Water Crunch Brews Risks For Beverage Giants
Laws in India, the world's most populous nation, bar the movement of liquor across state borders without a special permit, effectively forcing companies to set up production in every state they want to sell in despite the water scarcity.
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Unclean Water, Power Cuts In Cell: UN Expert Criticises Imran Khan's Wife's Detention Condition In Pak
United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture has criticised the detention conditions of former Pakistan Prime Minsiter's wife, Bushra Bibi Khan, stating that the conditions fall far below minimum international standards.
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How Much Water Does AI Use? Consumption Now Exceeds World’s Bottled Water, Suggests New Study
Anthropic has released an open-source tool called Bloom to test how AI models behave under normal and stressful conditions. Bloom automates behavioural testing by generating scenarios, running them at scale, and scoring responses for traits like bias or sycophancy. Anthropic says it simplifies a process that was previously manual and time-consuming...
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5 Dead As Mexican Navy Plane On Medical Mission Crashes
A small Mexican Navy plane transporting a young medical patient and seven others crashed Monday near Galveston, killing at least five people and setting off a search in the waters off the Texas coast, officials said.
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Trouble Mounts For Pakistan With Taliban's New Move Over Cross-Border River
Pakistan's mounting water crisis is likely to worsen, as the Taliban government in Afghanistan has decided to move ahead with its plans to divert water from the Kunar River towards the Nangarhar region in the country
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'Jailed Imran Khan, Gave Life-Time Immunity To Asim Munir': India Slams Pak At UN
India's Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Harish Parvathaneni, called out Islamabad's "obsessive focus on harming India and its people."
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Opinion | A City Without Water Is A Harbinger Of A Thirsty Planet
In Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Indus valley, the first urban settlements were built around irrigated farmland. Flooded terrace fields for rice, corn and quinoa accompanied the spread of civilization in East Asia and the Americas.
-
7 Most Unbelievable Animal Stories Of 2025
7 Most Unbelievable Animal Stories: 2025 was a remarkable year with even more incredible animal stories that caught the world's attention.
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Highly Contagious Virus Hits Luxury Cruise Ship, Infects Over 100 Passengers And Crew
Norovirus is highly contagious and spreads easily through contaminated food, water, and surfaces.
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Watch: Beluga Whale Splashes Man Smoking At Aquarium In China, Internet Cheers
The man was seen lighting a cigarette while standing with his back to the beluga pool, despite being in a no-smoking zone.
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Weeks After Louvre Jewel Heist, Water Leak Damages 400 Egyptian Artifacts
A water leak in late November damaged several hundred works in the Louvre's Egyptian department, the Paris museum told AFP on Sunday, weeks after a brazen jewel theft raised concerns over its infrastructure.
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Is Earth Really Getting Too Hot To Live? Scientist Explains Climate Change
Hot air evaporates a lot more water, so crops, forests and landscapes in some areas dry out, which makes them more susceptible to wildfire. Each Celsius degree of warming can cause a sixfold increase in wildfire over parts of the western US.
-
Flood-Hit Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia Struggle For Water, Food
Torrential monsoon season deluges paired with two separate tropical cyclones last week dumped heavy rain across all of Sri Lanka and parts of Indonesia's Sumatra, southern Thailand and northern Malaysia.
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Why One Of The Last Least-Visited Places On Earth Is Fast Turning A Tourist Hotspot
The Moon meets Mars in Saudi Arabia's AlUla, one of the last places on earth that saw no tourists till a few years ago
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Indonesia Residents Steal Food, Water For Survival Amid Floods
Some residents of the flood-hit Indonesian island of Sumatra have resorted to stealing food and water to survive, authorities said Sunday, while Sri Lankan officials said deaths from floods and mudslides in that island nation have risen to 193.
