Star shuttler Saina Nehwal will be back on the court after a gap of three months as she begins her campaign at the Orleans Masters, a Super 300 level World Tour event, on Wednesday. Saina, who had a semifinal finish at the event in 2021, meets Neslihan Yigit of Turkey in the first round, who made it to the main …
DAWWAYAH, Iraq and ILISU DAM, Turkey — Next year, the water will come. In 2014, Iraq’s Water Ministry prepared a confidential report that spelled out a “single truth:" In two years, Iraq’s water supply would no longer meet demand, and the gap would keep widening. “I like to keep it to myself,” Eroglu’s Iraqi counterpart, Mahdi Hamdani, said regarding his …
A fisherman in September walks across a dry patch of land in the marshes of southern Iraq, which has suffered dire consequences from drought and rising salinity levels. River flows have fallen by 40% in the last four decades as the states along its length — Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq — pursue rapid, unilateral development of the water’s use. …
