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The Graphic Truth: India's sliding economic growth

Prime Minister Modi of India and the ruling BJP have tried to divert attention away from the country's slowing economic growth (its worst economic slowdown in six years) with words and actions designed to appease their Hindu nationalist base. Here's a look at India's GDP growth rate in 2019 and projections for 2020.

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Iran war threatens water access in Middle East
Natalie Johnson, Eileen Zhang

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.