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Screens displaying advertisements for an upcoming "Diet Coke party" in New Delhi, India, on May 5, amid an aluminium can shortage caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

Screens displaying advertisements for an upcoming "Diet Coke party" in New Delhi, India, on May 5, amid an aluminium can shortage caused by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.

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David Fickling

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Geopolitics is currently making it harder for India’s 1.4 billion people to cool off in the punishing summer heat.

Things are about to get a whole lot worse.

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