KARACHI: Despite authorities’ best efforts, there is a dire shortage of dollars in the open market, and many currency exchanges are “only selling what they buy”, causing consternation among those ...

Rows of worshippers, some with their faces raised toward the sky, others with their heads bowed, prayed for rain at a mosque in Tehran earlier this month. Theirs is an increasingly desperate plea. The ...

TEHRAN, Iran — A drastic new message adorns the walls of the Iranian capital, usually reserved for war heroes and weapons. “There is a water shortage!” reads the government poster's slogan, inside a ...

President says Tehran may have to be evacuated if no rain by December Water shortages sparked violent protests in southern Iran in 2021 Families decry 'one hardship after another' DUBAI, Nov 12 ...

DUBAI — Iran is grappling with its worst water crisis in decades, with officials warning that Tehran — a city of more than 10 million — may soon be uninhabitable if the drought gripping the country ...

Decades of mismanagement and environmental exploitation, and an unprecedented drought have left Iran teetering on the edge of a water crisis. With no rain on the horizon, the president has warned that ...

Water reserves in Mashhad, Iran’s second-largest city and one of its most important religious centers, have fallen below 3 percent of capacity, putting the city’s 4 million residents on the brink of a ...

Many states have allocated millions of dollars to food banks. Beginning Saturday, some 42 million low-income Americans, including 16 million children, lost access to benefits through the Supplemental ...