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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

South Asia

UN adopts declaration on rights of indigenous people

Villagers ransack mining site in Vietnam

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

Border conflict

Clashes between wild animals and farmers are rising along forest fringes. But the government is yet to gauge their intensity, forget developing a …

India granted 'observer' status in Arctic Council

Violence at POSCO site

Clashes erupt as government resumes construction of coastal road at Jagatsinghpur in Odisha

POSCO villages resist land acquisition by Odisha government

Despite protests administration demolishes 37 betel gardens on the forestland. Land acquistion put on hold till June 17

Locals in Rajasthan's Kota district stop building of incineration plant