Blog - In the quiet, peri-urban community of Kuje in Abuja, Nigeria's Federal Capital, Amina Hassan, 34, wakes up at 4 a.m. each day to join a long queue to fetch water.

A potential water war in the making: Crucial India-Pakistan agreement hangs in the balance. The Indus Water Treaty (IWT) has governed how the six rivers that flow through India are shared since 1960.

DANGJIN, South Korea — Despite braving rain, snow, and sleet, more than 35 U.S. Soldiers from Camp Humphreys joined local residents and international guests at the annual Gijisi Tug-of-War ...

This Day in History, 1948: Persistent gabbers tug-o'-war over telephone 'party lines' Neighbours sometimes shared phone lines, which could get contentious when people stayed on the line too long ...

MILWAUKEE (WKRC) - A man allegedly intentionally threw a 1-year-old off of a second-story balcony after getting into a "tug-of-war" fight over the baby with the child's mother.

The Palm Beach Post, a Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper, fired its editorial page editor after he ran a cartoon on the war in Gaza that local Jewish groups slammed as antisemitic.

The teams line up on each side of the Detroit River to try and pull 1,500 feet of thick rope out of the water faster than the other. The first team to tug in 1,000 feet, marked by a bright orange ...

"One on One soldier Tug of War, Ukraine vs Russian," reads the caption of the March 9 video, which generated more than 3.6 million views and 62,000 reactions in two days. Duplicates of the video ...

Notre Dame football recently shared a 30-second video on X (formerly known as Twitter) of several different players competing in a tug-of-war battle during 2025 winter workouts.

Tug of war has been played for thousands of years. ... The teams line up on each side of the Detroit River to try and pull 1,500 feet of thick rope out of the water faster than the other.

Tug of war has been played for thousands of years. ... The teams line up on each side of the Detroit River to try and pull 1,500 feet of thick rope out of the water faster than the other.

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