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At least six people died and more than 20 were injured, most of them children, when a school bus went off the road into a river in northwest Syria on Thursday, emergency responders said. The bus carrying dozens of children left the road…
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Iraq’s Tigris and Euphrates rivers have witnessed a sharp decrease in their levels in the south of the country, officials said Sunday, pledging to take urgent measures to ease water shortages. In Nasiriyah, capital of the southern…
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The fire broke out on a train that was traveling over a bridge outside the American city of Boston, and as a result, panic spread in the hearts of travelers. Some escaped the flames by jumping out of windows, onto the floor of the…
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Iraq on Saturday asked Ankara to increase the flow of water downstream along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, as both countries face droughts and tensions over resource management. Baghdad regularly complains that dams constructed in…
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After the snow covered the slopes of the Green Mountain in eastern Libya in the past period, heavy rains turned the streets of Sirte into a lake, and days before that, the Al-Kouf Valley in the Green Mountain turned into a river. And a…
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Iranian riot police on Sunday patrolled a dried-out riverbed in the central city of Isfahan where protests against a water shortage led to violent clashes two days earlier. Drought and water diversions have been blamed for drying up the…
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Iraqi officials warned Tuesday of a drastic drop in the flow of water in a river from Iran due to low rainfall and dam-building in the neighboring Islamic republic. The Sirwan river begins in Iran, flowing to Darbandikhan Dam in…
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Some seek to go to quiet places for recreation, and natural places are the best destination to achieve this goal, especially the coasts of the seas and the banks of the rivers, which combine calm and the beauty of the surrounding nature.…
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From time to time, a body floating down the river separating Ethiopia’s troubled Tigray region from Sudan was a silent reminder of a war conducted in the shadows. But in recent days, the corpses became a flow. Bloated, drained of color…
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According to annual tradition, a river in the US city of Chicago turned green on Wednesday in celebration of St. Patrick's Day. Local authorities have dyed the Chicago River green every year since 1962, because the components of the…
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