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Indonesia’s Mammoth Election

Indonesia’s Mammoth Election

193 million people across more than 17,000 islands vote in the world's largest single-day election. Here's what you need to know.

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As missiles fly and oil prices soar, the Iran war is exposing another major resource vulnerability in the Middle East: water. Fresh water has been a scarce commodity in a region defined by a dry climate and low rainfall, but attacks on the region’s desalination plants, which convert seawater into drinking water, threaten to open a new front.