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Africa
4/3/2024 2:41:20 PM
Zimbabwe declared drought a national disaster on Wednesday, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa saying the country needed $2 billion in aid to help millions of people who are going hungry.
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World
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Africa
3/31/2024 8:35:08 PM
Delicately and with intense concentration, Zanyiwe Ncube poured her small share of precious golden cooking oil into a plastic bottle at a food aid distribution site deep in rural Zimbabwe.
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World
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Africa
3/16/2024 9:40:59 PM
South Sudan on Saturday said it would close schools and told children not to play outside as temperatures were set to soar to an exceptional 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit).
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World
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Africa
2/29/2024 8:15:54 PM
Zambia declared drought a national disaster on Thursday with President Hakainde Hichilema saying the lack of rain has devastated the agricultural sector, affecting more than one million families.
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AFCON 2023
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News
1/26/2024 7:15:09 PM
Nigeria coach José Peseiro compared his team’s meager goal tally at the Africa Cup of Nations to a bottle of ketchup, saying the goals might come all at once in the next match against Cameroon.
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World
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International
1/13/2024 2:17:05 PM
A prolonged dry spell is sweeping across the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir during the harshest phase of winter, leaving many people sick and farmers worried about impending water shortages.
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AFCON 2023
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News
1/11/2024 10:41:08 AM
Morocco coach Walid Regragui was just five months and 20 days old when the country won the Africa Cup of Nations for the only time in 1976.
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Sports
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World
12/27/2023 12:23:16 PM
Rasmus Hojlund admitted he was the "happiest man alive" after the Manchester United striker finally scored his first Premier League goal to seal Tuesday's dramatic 3-2 win against Aston Villa.
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Sports
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World
12/26/2023 9:44:21 PM
Liverpool climbed to the top of the Premier League as Darwin Nunez ended his goal drought to inspire a 2-0 win against struggling Burnley on Tuesday.
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Sports
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World
12/19/2023 6:11:20 PM
Liverpool striker Darwin Nunez is "full of fire" heading into Wednesday's League Cup quarter-final at home to West Ham despite a recent goal drought, according to assistant manager Pep Lijnders.
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Sports
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World
11/25/2023 9:53:44 PM
Kai Havertz sent Arsenal to the top of the Premier League as the German's last-gasp goal clinched a hard-fought 1-0 win at Brentford on Saturday.
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Life & Style
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Health
11/19/2023 6:19:05 PM
More common droughts will put millions at risk of starving, mosquitoes spreading farther than ever before will take infectious diseases with them, and health systems will struggle to cope with the burden, the researchers warned.
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Sports
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World
11/12/2023 7:49:09 PM
Barcelona striker Robert Lewandowski ended his barren goalscoring spell with a brace to rescue the Spanish champions a 2-1 win over Alaves in La Liga on Sunday.
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World
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International
11/8/2023 3:56:58 PM
This October was the hottest on record globally, 1.7 degrees Celsius (3.1 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than the pre-industrial average for the month, and the fifth straight month with such a mark in what will now almost certainly be the warmest year ever recorded.
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World
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Region
9/14/2023 11:30:10 AM
Heatwaves, low rainfall and the threat of wildfires are compounding the woes of people in the forested north of Lebanon, a country where economic pain has long taken prominence over environmental concerns.
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World
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Region
8/24/2023 3:54:18 PM
More than four million people have been driven from their homes in Ethiopia, mainly by conflict or drought, according to new UN figures.
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Egypt
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Health
8/16/2023 7:00:08 PM
Egypt and China signed a deal to collaborate on developing drought and salt-tolerant crops to overcome water scarcity and salinity in Egypt as the country confronts the major impacts of climate change.
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World
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Region
8/14/2023 10:32:36 AM
Iraqi merchant Mohamed has never seen such a grim tourist season: years of drought have shrunken the majestic Lake Habbaniyah, keeping away the holidaymakers who once flocked there during summer.
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World
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International
8/9/2023 3:44:54 PM
Temperatures are expected to hit 44 degrees Centigrade (111 Fahrenheit) in Spain and Portugal on Wednesday as the two countries boil under their third heatwave of the summer.
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World
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Region
8/7/2023 10:14:03 AM
Iraqi villager Omar Ziad gazes at the cracked and barren earth where his fish farm once stood, lost to water conservation efforts during a devastating four-year drought.
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