This aerial photo shows a boat during low water levels at the Chibaish marshes in Nasiriyah of southern Iraq, Thursday, June 16, 2022. (AP Photo/ Nabil al-Jurani)
Muslim worshippers pray around the Kaaba, Islam's holiest shrine, at the Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia's holy city of Mecca on June 11, 2024 ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage. (Photo by FADEL SENNA / AFP)
Voters queue up to cast their ballots at a polling station in Varanasi on June 1, 2024, during the seventh and final phase of voting in India's general election. (Photo: AFP)
A man takes a shower under water pouring from a pipe along the Yamuna flood plains on a hot summer afternoon in New Delhi on May 29, 2024, amid ongoing heatwave. (Photo: ARUN SANKAR/AFP)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani speaking in the symposium on Drought and the Impact of Climate Change on the Political, Economic, and Demographic Situation of Iraq, May 12, 2024. (Photo: Kurdistan24)
The irrigation channel in the district of Dawwayeh is dry due to low water levels as a result of back to back drought and severe cuts by the Iraqi government. (Photo: AP)
