Agriculture News Updates
Agriculture News Updates
By SAMY MAGDY, Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — Yemen’s Houthis criticized a new U.S.-led task force that will patrol the Red Sea following a series of attacks by the Iran-backed rebels in a waterway that’s essential to global trade. Mohammed Abdul-Salam, the Houthis’ chief negotiator and spokesman, said late Friday that the U.S. move in …
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KATHMANDU (Reuters) – Nepal is asking citizens living abroad to deposit funds in domestic banks as part of efforts to ensure the financial system has enough liquidity and to preserve foreign exchange reserves, finance finister Janardan Sharma said on Saturday. Speaking to Reuters, he denied Nepal was facing an economic crisis despite the impact …
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KYIV (Reuters) – One person was killed and several wounded in missile strikes on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Saturday morning, Kyiv’s mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said in televised comments. Klitschko added that medics were fighting for the lives of those who had been wounded. “Kyiv was and remains a target of the aggressor,” he said. …
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG, Associated Press SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attended a massive civilian parade in the capital, Pyongyang, celebrating a milestone birth anniversary of his state-founding grandfather in which thousands marched in a choreographed display of loyalty to the Kim family, state media said Saturday. The reports didn’t …
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US Lawmakers Affirm Japan Alliance Eyeing China, North Korea TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and visiting U.S. lawmakers reaffirmed their commitment to working together under a longstanding bilateral alliance on Saturday at a time of heightened global tensions including threats from China and North Korea. In a meeting over breakfast, the delegation, …
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Climate Change Protesters Block Central Paris Square to Protest Election Choices PARIS (Reuters) – Climate change activists forced the closure of the main square in central Paris on Saturday to protest against the environmental programs put forward by France’s remaining presidential candidates. The Extinction Rebellion (XR) had said on its website that it planned to …
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PARIS (Reuters) -Protests were expected around France on Saturday as opponents of far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen seek to form a united front to prevent her from winning an election runoff against incumbent Emmanuel Macron on April 24. Police have warned of possible incidents as demonstrators convene in some 30 cities. Macron, a pro-European …
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Ukraine Working With Turkey, Understands Parallel Ties to Russia -Ukrainian Diplomat ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Ukraine is working with NATO member Turkey as much as possible for more support over Russia’s invasion and understands – even though it is not happy with – the reality of Ankara’s parallel ties to Moscow, a Ukrainian diplomat said. …
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Elderly in Ukraine By CARA ANNA and RODRIGO ABD, Associated Press MYKULYCHI, Ukraine (AP) — This is not where Nadiya Trubchaninova thought she would find herself at 70 years of age, hitchhiking daily from her village to the shattered town of Bucha trying to bring her son’s body home for burial. The questions wear her …
‘I Feel So Lost’: the Elderly in Ukraine, Left Behind, Mourn Read More »
BEIJING (Reuters) – Two COVID-19 vaccine candidates developed by units of China National Biotec Group (CNBG) to target the Omicron variant were approved for clinical trials as boosters in Hong Kong, the Sinopharm subsidiary said on Saturday. Scientists worldwide are racing to study upgraded injections against Omicron, as data indicated that antibodies elicited by vaccines …
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