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Fresh rains flood streets in war-scarred Gaza

Some pushed cars through the Gaza Strip's flooded streets, while others took to donkey-pulled carts to wade through the floodwaters after fresh winter rains lashed the war-battered Palestinian territory. The rains have flooded tents and makeshift shelters in Gaza, where most of

Iraq's dreams of wheat independence dashed by water crisis

NAJAF, Iraq, Dec 16 (Reuters) - Iraqi wheat farmer Ma'an al-Fatlawi has long depended on the nearby Euphrates River to feed his fields near the city of Najaf. But this ​year, those waters, which made the Fertile Crescent a cradle of ancient civilisation 10,000 years ​ago, are