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Why did Iran’s president warn Tehran may need to be evacuated?
Iran’s president warned Tehran’s residents they may soon need to pick up and leave because of a worsening drought.
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Africa’s future runs on water. So treat it as essential infrastructure
Shift from headline projects to reliable services, with communities shaping decisions and finance tied to real results.
Climate change wreaking havoc on world’s water cycle: UN
Last year’s record heat led to prolonged droughts and extreme floods across the globe.
Children, journalists among 105 killed in Israeli onslaught in Gaza
At least 105 Palestinians killed, including 32 aid seekers, as Israel pushes ahead with plans to seize Gaza City.
![A Palestinian youth mourn by the body of a relative killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza City at dawn, at the Al-Shifa hospital on September 2, 2025. [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/AFP__20250902__734X663__v1__HighRes__PalestinianIsraelConflict-1756822573.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
Iraq is facing a water crisis, hit by one of its worst droughts in century
Experts warn that the water crisis in the country’s south will worsen, unless there is urgent government action.
Cholera kills 40 as Sudan faces worst outbreak in years, says MSF
MSF says displacement, war and rain driving deadly cholera outbreak in Sudan as infections continue to mount.
Abandoned houses in one of the villages in the Indus delta [Israr Ahmed Khan/AFP]
Haji Karam Jat, a fisherman, uses bamboo sticks to build his new house in Keti Bandar town. [Asif Hassan/AFP]
A boy walks past an abandoned house in one of the villages of Kharo Chan town. [Asif Hassan/AFP]
Haji Karam Jat (R) and his family members walk along an embankment in Keti Bandar town. [Asif Hassan/AFP]
A fisherman rides a makeshift raft as he returns after collecting mangrove wood near the Arabian Sea in the coastal region of Karachi. [Asif Hassan/AFP]
More than 1.2 million people have been displaced from the overall Indus delta region in the last two decades, according to a study published in March by the Jinnah Institute. [Asif Hassan/AFP]
Local residents walk to the boats that bring drinkable water to one of the island villages of Kharo Chan town. [Asif Hassan/AFP]
Fatima Majeed (R), a climate activist, speaks with fishermen in the town of Ibrahim Hyderi. [Asif Hassan/AFP]
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People wait in line to fill water canisters from an aid truck in Gaza City. [Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu]
Khadija Sobh, 18 gives water to her seven-month-old daughter, Janin Sobh, inside their tent in the Daraj neighbourhood in Gaza City. [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP]
A boy carries a jerrycan filled with water drawn from the tank of a mobile water cistern destroyed in an Israeli bombardment in the Nuseirat refugee camp. [Eyad Baba/AFP]
More than 75 per cent of Gaza's wells are out of service, and 100,000 metres (62 miles) of water mains have been damaged. [Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP]
Displaced Palestinians collect water at a tent camp in Gaza City. [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
Although Gaza’s water crisis has received less media attention than the ongoing hunger crisis, its effects are just as deadly. [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]
“Just like food, water should never be used for political ends,” UNICEF spokeswoman Rosalia Bollen says. [Mahmoud Issa/Anadolu]
People gather to receive food distributed by a charity in Gaza City. [Abdalhkem Abu Riash/Anadolu]
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China starts construction of world’s biggest hydropower dam in Tibet
The project on a river that runs through Tibet and India downstream could dwarf the Three Gorges Dam when completed.
A Palestinian man carries the body of his child, who was killed in an Israeli air raid on Gaza, at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
Palestinians inspect the wreckage of a filling station destroyed in an Israeli air raid in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Palestinians injured during Israeli air raids receive treatment on the floor at al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. [Jihad Al-Sharafi/AP Photo]
A Palestinian woman carries the body of her son, Majd Ahmed, six, who was killed in an Israeli air attack on Gaza, at al-Shifa Hospital. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
A Palestinian boy salvages a mattress from the rubble of a house in the aftermath of an overnight Israeli attack on Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip. [Eyad Baba/AFP]
Palestinians mourn a child killed in an Israeli military air raid on Gaza, at the morgue of al-Shifa Hospital. [Jehad Alshrafi/AP Photo]
On Saturday, at least 110 Palestinians were killed, including 34 who were shot near the only functioning food distribution site in the Strip. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
The northern city of Beit Hanoon was also hit. The Israeli army dropped about 50 bombs on the northeastern part of the city. [Eyad Baba/AFP]
Mourners attend the funeral of their relatives killed in a bombardment, in Deir el-Balah. [Abdel Kareem Hana/AP Photo]
Smoke from an explosion rises in the northern Gaza Strip, as seen from a southern Israeli location on July 13, 2025. [Ohad Zwigenberg/AP Photo]
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THE BIG QUESTION
Can India stop Pakistan’s river water — and will it spark a new war?
The decades-old Indus Waters Treaty faces its gravest challenge as India suspends it, prompting Pakistan to warn of war.
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