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Iraq wants treaty on sharing river waters

Argentina scraps deal with UK to share oil found off Falkland Islands

Displacement due to logging in Peru

Concerns over smuggling of Zimbabwean rough diamonds to South frica

Israel chokes off chlorine supply to Gaza

South Asia

Barmer farmers protest Jindal power project

Kono diamond mining suspended

Cold comfort for 400,000 Burundi refugees

UN Food Aid Programme to withdraw aid from Angola

Srinagar officials, residents agree on three more dumpsites

Agitation over forestland

Twist in turtle’s tale

Falling catch fuels turtle-fisher conflict in Lakshadweep atolls

Eco-sensitive zones subverted

States exclude ecologically rich areas around parks from regulation to allow industries

South Asia

UN adopts declaration on rights of indigenous people

Villagers ransack mining site in Vietnam

Better wild than never

Sociology of conflict

In vitro testing needs a push

POSCO faces fresh litigation, protest

Uncertainty looms over its $12 billion steel plant project in Odisha