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CHONGQING, China (AP) — Ships crept down the middle of the Yangtze on Friday after China's driest summer in six decades left one of the mightiest rivers barely half its normal width and set off a scramble to contain the damage to a weak economy in a politically sensitive year.

OULED ESSI MASSEOUD, MOROCCO (AFP) – Mohamed gave up farming because of successive droughts that have hit his previously fertile but isolated village in Morocco and because he just couldn’t bear it any longer. “To see villagers rush to public fountains in the morning or to a neighbour to get water makes you want to […]

Education and other resources, that is one of the sad ironies, there is not really that safety net once you -- once you -- you know, the life is created, the life -- the baby is born, where is the -- where is the government response to help them. that is a piece of this still missing. carolyn, thank you so much. nice to see you. walmart and cvs and walgreens ordered to pay damages to two ohio counties. they must pay a combined $650 million in the next 15 years, $306 million going to lake count...

Normal water flows in the region could be months away, with rainfall expected to remain low until the end of this month and beyond.

BEIJING (AP) — Factories in China’s southwest have shut down and a city imposed rolling blackouts after reservoirs to generate hydropower ran low in a worsening drought, adding to economic strains at a time when President Xi Jinping is trying to extend his hold on power.

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — An Ethiopian rebel group has proposed a humanitarian truce to facilitate assistance to hungry people in the country’s Oromia region as it warns of famine. The Oromo Liberation Army has been engaged in a deadly conflict with the Ethiopian government, which has labeled it a terror group.

France is being whipped by violent storms that have flooded Paris subway stations, snarled traffic and disrupted the president’s agenda

Chinese planes are firing rods into the sky to bring more rainfall to its crucial Yangtze River, which has dried up in parts, as swaths of the nation fall into

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Unusually high temperatures and a prolonged drought are affecting large swaths of China, reducing crop yields and drinking water supplies