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  • Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit
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    Mount Everest: A new route avoids treacherous Khumbu Icefall in safer path to summit

  • Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse
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    Historical romance: In 1906, an Englishwoman is infatuated by the handsome Indian groom of her horse

  • Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport
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    Tech jobs aplenty in Dubai’s AI boom – depending on your passport

  • Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species
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    Arunachal Pradesh: Threatened by dam, Siang Valley is home to staggeringly diverse number of species

  • Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate
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    Language and power: What Ambedkar and Periyar teach us about Maharashtra’s Hindi debate

  • A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant
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    A look at 15th-century India through the eyes of a Genoan merchant

  • ‘Has he been deported?’: A UP Muslim family searches for man ‘detained’ in post-Pahalgam crackdown
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    ‘Has he been deported?’: A UP Muslim family searches for man ‘detained’ in post-Pahalgam crackdown

  • For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with
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    For young readers: Poems about the various small, astonishing creatures we share the planet with

  • Economic history: How the relationship between government and big business changed in India
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    Economic history: How the relationship between government and big business changed in India

  • Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’
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    Review: Rekha is the life and soul of Muzaffar’s Ali’s classic ‘Umrao Jaan’

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Watch: How sudden floods are ravaging Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands

At least 50 have died and hundreds of people are missing, with water gushing through the streets.

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Jul 16, 2021 · 11:01 am
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This flooding in Germany today is hard to wrap your head around. It really seems like the planet is trying to tell us something pic.twitter.com/o5vCEpk8mk

— Read Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (@JoshuaPotash) July 16, 2021

Firefighter among those killed by Germany floods.

Fire brigade Vehicle submerged in flood water #Germany #floods #ClimateEmergency pic.twitter.com/Y2VmXdtbgB

— Fridays For Future Uganda (@Fridays4FutureU) July 15, 2021

Drone footage shows the extent of damage in western Germany after heavy rain triggered severe floods.

Dozens of people are still missing.

Latest on this story here: https://t.co/tDlDebAN8h pic.twitter.com/dyW5i5TKne

— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 15, 2021

VIDEO: Heavy damage after fatal floods in Germany.

Massive flooding in western Germany has left dozens of people dead and caused significant damage pic.twitter.com/D7JVPbZUPm

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) July 16, 2021

Residents of villages in Germany hit by floods have been rescued by helicopter. Dozens of people are known to have died so far.

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— Sky News (@SkyNews) July 15, 2021

Never seen this in Belgium #Verviers #flooding #floods pic.twitter.com/QC2PrHaPLB

— Hatice AVCI ‘Deniz’ (@HaticeDenizAVCI) July 15, 2021

This is Pepinster today, small town in eastern Belgium.
the strong currents are making rescue operations really difficult as those images show👇🏼#floods #Belgium pic.twitter.com/stoscdykVs

— Bruno Boelpaep (@BrunoBoelpaep) July 15, 2021

FLASH FLOODS: Drone footage shows flooding in the Netherlands on Thursday, where the waters have damaged many homes in the southern province of Valkenburg. At least 42 people have died in Germany and dozens missing as swollen rivers caused by rainfall across western Europe. pic.twitter.com/4QFP8HUhMC

— CBS News (@CBSNews) July 16, 2021

Grote Straat in Valkenburg op dit moment. #wateroverlast #Limburg @RTLnieuws pic.twitter.com/ZTdutppkZ2

— Nils Rompen (@nilsrompen) July 15, 2021
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