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India is running out of water, fast | News | Al Jazeera

Delayed monsoon rains highlight fragility of the water supply in the deeply agrarian South Asian country. At least 21 cities in India, including capital New Delhi, Bengaluru, Chennai and Hyderabad, will run out of groundwater by 2020, affecting around 100 million people. India’s news network NDTV said 40 percent of India’s population will …

Sane-Sex Marriages In Taiwan Celebrated At Wedding Banquet : NPR

More than a thousand people participated in a mass wedding banquet in Taiwan on Saturday to celebrate the island becoming the first place in Asia to legally recognize same-sex unions. The event included a wedding ceremony for about 20 couples. Couples walked down a red carpet at the wedding banquet, …

Jo Song-gil: The North Korean ‘defector’ from Pyongyang’s elite who has vital knowledge of regime

The North Korean diplomat who has reportedly defected from Pyongyang’s embassy in Rome is from a prestigious diplomatic family and would have vital information on the inner-workings of Kim Jong-un’s regime. Jo Song-gil, the North’s acting ambassador to Rome, went into hiding with his wife in November and is reportedly seeking asylum. Experts have …

Analysis: Rising US, China rivalry deepening rifts in Asia

BANGKOK (AP) — All the usual rituals of international summits were there: the group photos, the gala dinners, the noticeably vibrant shirts leaders force themselves into. But eclipsing all of that at Asia’s two big meetings was some unusually forthright criticism that exposed deepening divisions rattling the region. Front and …