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Global Media Forum continues ... Massive flooding in northern India has displaced nearly two million people and led India's prime minister to call the floods a "national calamity".
Manmohan Singh toured the eastern Indian state of Bihar which has been ravaged by the monsoon-swollen Kosi river which breached its banks ten days ago and changed its course. Singh announced an aid package of more than 1.5 million euros. Food and medicine is being airdropped to stranded people. More than 800 people across India have been killed this monsoon season, which lasts until September.
(Deutsche Welle)
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