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‘Canal’ highlights Delhi’s water vulnerability

New Delhi / AP Engineers were working to restore New Delhi’s full water supply on Tuesday after protesters damaged a key canal in a neighboring state and disrupted supplies over the weekend — highlighting the extreme water vulnerability faced by the Indian capital’s 18 million residents. Some supplies resumed to northern and central parts of New Delhi, and will hopefully ...

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USA missile system in South Korea would hurt Seoul-Beijing ties: Envoy

Seoul / AFP China’s ambassador to South Korea warned on Tuesday that the planned deployment of a US missile defence system in the country could damage Beijing-Seoul ties, possibly irreparably. Once damaged, it would be “hard” to normalise relations between the two former Cold War enemies, ambassador Qiu Guohong said, according to a spokesman for South Korea’s main opposition Minju ...

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Germany, France press Kiev on graft, vote in rebel east

Kiev / AFP Germany and France on Tuesday urged Kiev to root out corruption and quickly adopt a law on elections in the pro-Russian east that may help resolve Ukraine’s separatist war. French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived in Kiev amid political chaos that has seen ministers in the pro-EU government trade accusations of ...

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