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Water supplies have been partially restored in the Indian capital, Delhi, after repairs began on a key canal which supplies much of the city. The army took control of the Munak canal in neighbouring Haryana state on Monday after Jat community protesters, angry at caste job quotas, seized it. Delhi water minister Kapil Mishra said the “crisis was still not ...

More than 10 million people in India’s capital are without water despite the army regaining control of its key water source after protests, officials say. Keshav Chandra, head of Delhi’s water board, told the BBC it would take “three to four days” before normal supplies resumed to affected areas. Jat community protesters demanding more government jobs seized the Munak canal, ...

A clean-up operation has begun after the most severe cyclone to hit Fiji in living memory, as the death toll jumped to at least 10. Rescue workers said that number could rise as some of the worst-hit outlying islands have yet to be reached. Cyclone Winston, which hit over the weekend, brought winds of over 320km/h (200mph), torrential rain, and ...

Bomb blasts in the Syrian cities of Homs and Damascus have left at least 140 people dead, monitors and state media say. At least four blasts struck the southern Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab, killing at least 83 people, state media said. Earlier in Homs, 57 people, mainly civilians, were killed in a double car bombing, a monitoring group reported. ...

Donald Trump has won the South Carolina primary in the Republican race for president, cementing his status as the man to beat for his party’s nomination. In the Democratic contest, Hillary Clinton beat Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders in a tight race in Nevada. Both results will be key ahead of the “Super Tuesday” round on 1 March, when a dozen ...

The Indian capital Delhi is facing a severe water crisis due to violent protests relating to caste rights in the neighbouring state of Haryana. Delhi government officials said the city only had water supplies until Sunday morning and announced closure of all schools on Monday. Protesters from the Jat community damaged equipment in the Munak canal, a major source of ...

Uganda’s electoral commission has announced that Yoweri Museveni has won a fifth term as president. It said that President Museveni had won 60.75% of the vote, while his main opponent Kizza Besigye had taken 35%. President Museveni will now serve another five years in office, having already been in power for 30 years. EU observers have criticised the poll, saying ...

Britain will vote on whether to remain in the EU on Thursday 23 June, Prime Minister David Cameron has said. The prime minister made his historic announcement in Downing Street after briefing the cabinet. He said he would be campaigning to remain in a reformed EU – and described the vote as one of the biggest decisions “in our lifetimes”. ...

Two Serbian nationals held hostage in Libya since November are believed to have been among those killed in Friday’s air strikes by US warplanes, the Serbian government says. The jets targeted positions of the self-styled Islamic State group (IS) in the city of Sabratha. The kidnapped Serbs, Sladjana Stankovic and Jovica Stepic, worked at the Serbian embassy in Libya. Serbia ...

David Cameron says a deal struck with EU leaders will give the UK “special status” and he will campaign with his “heart and soul” to stay in the union. The PM said the agreement, reached late on Friday after two days of talks in Brussels, would include a seven-year “emergency brake” on welfare payments. He added it also included changes ...