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[08 Feb 2013] Syrians back Assad despite shortages - English

[30 May 2014] WFP: Yemen Suffers Severe Food Shortages - English

[22 April 2015] Officials warn about drug shortages caused by Israeli siege in Gaza - English

[23 June 2012] Pakistani traders protest against power outages - English This, otherwise bustling city center in Rawalpindi, is giving a deserted look as traders have shut down their businesses to protest against the long power outages. Normal life has virtually come to a halt in Pakistan's largest province, Punjab, due to crippling strike against the ongoing energy crises. Pakistan is currently in the midst of severe energy shortages with many parts of the country receive only a few hours of electricity a day during the sweltering summer season. Riots have broken out in many parts of the country's Punjab province, which is controlled by the opposition. Angry protesters have attacked and torched public offices and a lawmaker's house in some cities. In his first address to the Parliament after getting elected as the country's Prime Minister, Raja Parvez Ashraf said addressing the energy crises would be his first priority. Prime Minister Ashraf was once in charge of water and power sector and was accused of receiving kickbacks in the rental power projects, a charge he strongly denies. Experts attribute the problem to years of underinvestment and bad management in the energy sector.

[13 Mar 2013] Fuel shortages in Egypt bode ill for new crises - English

Mountains of garbage have accumulated across the streets of Gaza for days as the waste collection vehicles in the coastal Strip stopped working due to severe fuel shortage. Local municipalities have started to use donkeys in order to collect waste from cities and villages across the region.

Energy crisis in Pakistan is worsening with every passing day.The growing energy shortages have compelled the government in Pakistan to suspend gas supply to industrial units in the country\'s most populous province.

People in the Gaza Strip are once again struggling to cope with electricity shortages during the cold winter season. This, due to Israel\\\'s refusal to allow fuel into the impoverished Palestinian territory.

Years has passed since the Israeli military launched missile and ground attacks on Gaza, which Israel called Operation Cast Lead. According to the UN, 1,383 Palestinians died as a result, including 333 children. And what of the survivors? For the 1.7 million living in the tiny Gaza Strip, life has become increasingly desperate because of Israel\'s continuing blockade, backed by Egypt and with no effective challenge from governments around the world. The blockade has brought electricity cuts of 16 hours a day, The electricity shortages have severely affected almost all essential services, including health, water, sanitation and schooling. Many houses have been burnt in blazes caused by unattended candles or circuited house electric generators. Solid waste disposal is severely disrupted due to fuel shortages and with waste plants and water refineries not operational, people have to drink highly toxic water either salinated or mixed with sewage. Amidst all the limitations, Gazans struggle to survive and thus innovation has become their answer to imposed embargo.

Years has passed since the Israeli military launched missile and ground attacks on Gaza, which Israel called Operation Cast Lead. According to the UN, 1,383 Palestinians died as a result, including 333 children. And what of the survivors? For the 1.7 million living in the tiny Gaza Strip, life has become increasingly desperate because of Israel\'s continuing blockade, backed by Egypt and with no effective challenge from governments around the world. The blockade has brought electricity cuts of 16 hours a day, The electricity shortages have severely affected almost all essential services, including health, water, sanitation and schooling. Many houses have been burnt in blazes caused by unattended candles or circuited house electric generators. Solid waste disposal is severely disrupted due to fuel shortages and with waste plants and water refineries not operational, people have to drink highly toxic water either salinated or mixed with sewage. Amidst all the limitations, Gazans struggle to survive and thus innovation has become their answer to imposed embargo.

Years has passed since the Israeli military launched missile and ground attacks on Gaza, which Israel called Operation Cast Lead. According to the UN, 1,383 Palestinians died as a result, including 333 children. And what of the survivors? For the 1.7 million living in the tiny Gaza Strip, life has become increasingly desperate because of Israel\'s continuing blockade, backed by Egypt and with no effective challenge from governments around the world. The blockade has brought electricity cuts of 16 hours a day, The electricity shortages have severely affected almost all essential services, including health, water, sanitation and schooling. Many houses have been burnt in blazes caused by unattended candles or circuited house electric generators. Solid waste disposal is severely disrupted due to fuel shortages and with waste plants and water refineries not operational, people have to drink highly toxic water either salinated or mixed with sewage. Amidst all the limitations, Gazans struggle to survive and thus innovation has become their answer to imposed embargo.

As Israeli troops close in on Gaza City, clashes with various Palestinian fighters intensify. Sameh Habeeb, a photojournalist based in Gaza City, reports, shortages of water, food, gas and fuel have left many with nothing but what they have stored from before the attack began. Habeeb says the Israeli army has been warning Palestinians to evacuate in advance of bombings, but explains that for the majority of the people, they have nowhere to go. While Habeeb was describing the mushrooming humanitarian crisis in Gaza City, his house was being shelled by the unending violence between the IDF and the Hamas forces. Sameh Habeeb is a freelance journalist and photographer based in Gaza City, Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories. He worked previously as a producer for Ramattan News Agency.

Gaza residents are suffering extreme shortages of electricity and other necessities due to the extreme cold weather of winter and the suffocating siege on the coastal strip being carried out by the Israeli and Egyptian regimes. Recorded January 21, 2010 at 200GMT.

[11 June 2012] Pakistanti protesters march towards PM office - English These members of the Pakistan's main opposition party were marching towards the offices of the president and prime minister as part of their protest campaign against the government.Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz lawmakers have boycotted the parliament's budget proceedings to join the protest rally.They have staged a sit-in outside the President House to seek the removal of the Peoples Party government for what they call its failure to improve the country's economy including energy crises. Pakistan is currently in the midst of severe energy shortages with many parts of the country witnessing long power outages.The opposition party does not consider Yousaf Raza Gilani as the country's legitimate Prime Minister following his conviction over his refusal to reopen corruption cases against the President.The government has rejected the opposition protest saying they should have attended the important budget proceedings of the Parliament.Despite strong calls by the opposition, the government has no plans to quit.

[14 Aug 2012] Experts worried about Iranians health after US sanctions - English In the official letter to the UN chief Ban Ki-moon, Iran's Charity Foundation for Special Diseases has stated that the country is running short of medicine for rare disease because of sanctions imposed by US. This has affected the Iranian nation as the illegal sanctions are hindering the production and import of such medicine in the country. Margarita Bogdanova, Press TV, Moscow

[23 Dec 2012] Medicine shortage threaten Gaza patients lives - English

Appealing to an angry public due to difficult economic and social circumstances, president Morsi started his speech by admitting failures of the presidency in his first year in office and apologizing for recurrent shortages of key oil products and power outages. While enumerating the challenges Egypt faces, magnified by what he described as the Egyptian revolution\'s enemies at home and abroad, Morsi admitted that he had made a lot of mistakes. The Egyptian president said he is working on the necessity of correcting those mistakes.

Mohamed Morsi, was elected with a little over 51 % but with many Egyptians hoping that the change will bring positive developments in the country that was ruled with an iron grip for 30 years. Today, one year on, the support for Morsi is dwindling down with polls placing public approval ratings to his performance at 28%. Many Egyptians are dismayed over economic hardships in the form of surge in prices, high inflation as well as power cuts and gas shortages. Many also heavily criticize the presidency and the Muslim Brotherhood, the organization the president hails from for failing to bridge the divide between Islamists who now have power and the secular opposition. Karim Gamal el-Deen, Press TV, Cairo

[11 Sept 2013] Fishermen in Gaza suffer fuel crisis - English

Keeping a roof over your head in the UK is becoming more and more expensive, according to the group representing the housing industry in Britain. Because of chronic housing shortages, house prices are set to leap by 35% by 2020, leaving thousands struggling to find a place to live.

Thousands of people have been evacuated from flood-damaged homes in northern Gaza. The United Nations and Gazan officials are talking of a humanitarian crisis. The flooding, caused by days of torrential rains, has been so severe that many homes could only be accessed by rowing boat. The Gaza Health Ministry says one person has been killed and score of others injured as flood waters damaged poorly-built homes in the coastal territory. The government also says schools and other centers have turned into temporary shelters for thousands of homeless Palestinians. The deadly deluge has added to the woes of Palestinians in the coastal enclave, which continues to suffer from electricity cuts, a sewage crisis, and drinking water shortages-- all under a crippling Israeli blockade.

Palestinians at the al-Aroub refugee camp in Hebron al-Khalil have appealed to the international community to help them with their worsening living conditions. The residents say they\'re facing daily abuse and arrests by Israeli soldiers. Add to that the severe winter cold which has caused constant power shortages and lack of access to basic resources

The UN is asking for 95 million dollars in food aid for almost a million Gazans, suffering under an Israeli blockade since 2006. Scores of UN projects have been shut down and thousands made jobless since Israel refused to allow in construction material in the besieged Gaza Strip. Palestinians are facing severe electricity shortages and reeling from devastating floods amid the cold winter weather. Meanwhile, the Israeli prime minister has said Tel Aviv will not stop even for a moment settlement construction on occupied Palestinian land despite the fact that U-N Resolution 4-4-6 and a ruling by the International Court of Justice conclude the Israeli settlements violate international law. Is Israel enjoying immunity from prosecution for its violations? On this edition of the Debate, we\'re discussing how a growing Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign is affecting the global discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian problem.

Tribesmen have blown up a major oil pipeline in southern Yemen. Officials say the flow of crude has been halted due to the explosion in Ash-Shihr town of Hadramawt province. This is the second such attack in the past three days. On Thursday, the country\\\'s main oil pipeline was bombed in the central province of Ma\\\'arib. Over the past two years, oil and gas pipelines in Yemen have come under repeated attacks, causing fuel shortages and slashing export earnings in the impoverished country. Yemen depends on oil exports for some 70 percent of government spending.

[28 Apr 2014] Pakistan energy woes continue - English