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World News tagged with drought

Amid Droughts and Failed Crops, a Cycle of Poverty Worsens
World  (tags: Drought, poverty, India, farming )

Kristi
- 13 days ago - latimes.com
India has long been plagued by unscrupulous moneylenders who exploit impoverished farmers. But with crops failing more frequently, farmers are left even more desperate and vulnerable.
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Afghanistan: Millions Facing Food Shortages, Possible Starvation in Forgotten Emergency
World  (tags: world, Afghanistan, poverty, hunger, drought, food, starvation, drugs, suicide, bombings, war, violence, terrorism, middle-east, humanrights, conflict, children, death )

Tom
- 267 days ago - reliefweb.int
A severe drought is fueling a grave food crisis in Afghanistan that threatens millions with possible starvation. "In Afghanistan, the heroin trade, suicide bombings and the 'war on terror' has put the humanitarian agenda on the sidelines."
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Torrential Rain a 'Mixed Blessing' for Australia - Australia
World  (tags: australia, rain, floods, flooding, drought, good news, lake eyre, queensland, NSW )

Chrissy
- 301 days ago - abc.net.au
As torrential rain continues to fall across parts of Australia, the rivers, lakes and estuaries from the far north to the back of Bourke are about to spring to life. Some of the rain that has caused floods in parts of New South Wales will flow out to sea.
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Floods Better Than Drought: Farming Group - Queensland, Australia
World  (tags: australia, queensland, farmers, drought, floods, flooding, farming, natural disaster )

Chrissy
- 302 days ago - brisbanetimes.com.au
Gulf of Carpentaria cattle farmers would prefer the floods than the severe drought that has parched the region for many years, a leading farming group has said. Thousands of cattle are expected to have died during the floods, which have cut-off roads and
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Drought-Breaker La Nina Kicks in for Wet Summer - Australia
World  (tags: australia, drought, La nina, rain, murray-darling, rivers, floods, good news )

Chrissy
- 738 days ago - news.com.au
THE drought-breaking La Nina weather pattern has finally kicked in, bringing flooding rains along the eastern coast and filling the tributaries that feed into the dying Murray-Darling river system.
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Hundreds Die in Eastern Europe Heat Wave
World  (tags: climate, drought, government, corruption, weather, europe, deaths, crime, politics, cover-up )


- 871 days ago - wsws.org
High temperatures during recent days and weeks in the east and southeast of Europe have resulted in hundreds of deaths. Such high temperature conditions should not have been unforeseen and the very high number of deaths were by no means inevitable.
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