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Fancy a dip? Dredging programme gives Jakarta’s polluted and smelly rivers a new lease of life

A group of children gathered on the banks of the Ciliwung river in the Indonesian capital Jakarta, staring into the water and casting nets to try to catch fish.

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Loads of rubbish clogging up Malaysian rivers

​Two thousand, two hundred tonnes of rubbish - equivalent to the combined weight of more than 300 adult African elephants - is dumped into rivers, drains and waterways of Malaysia every month.

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2 killed in flooding in N. India

To people have been killed and two others missing in rivers in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand which has seen incessant showers for the fifth consecutive day on Sunday, police said Monday.