By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) – The U.S. Agriculture Department has proposed allowing farmers to bulk test the milk of their dairy cows for bird flu rather than test milk from individual cows before gaining…
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Malaysia plans to gift orangutans to major economic partners, as a way of improving its international image and building alliances. The “orangutan diplomacy” plan was confirmed by the nation’s plantation and commodities minister, Johari Abdul…
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Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai (Hunga Tonga for short) erupted on January 15 2022 in the Pacific Kingdom of Tonga. It created a tsunami which triggered warnings across the entire Pacific basin, and sent sound waves around…
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Investing.com– Oil prices steadied in Asian trade on Thursday as optimism over a bigger-than-expected draw in U.S. inventories was offset by caution ahead of key economic data that is likely to factor into interest rates. …
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Access to electricity – measured by the share of individuals who use electricity as their main energy source – has significantly improved in lower-income countries in recent decades. Thanks to large-scale rural electrification and infrastructure…
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By Jake Spring SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Latin America’s human rights court holds a final hearing in Brazil on Wednesday in a case that’s part of a global wave of climate litigation, as several international courts…
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Every day, 750 million people around the world engage with Tiktok – the short-video sharing app. Kenyans are among its top users. According to a Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2023, 54% of Kenyans sampled…
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Israel’s finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, announced on May 22 that Israel will withhold Palestinian tax revenues from the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank “until further notice”. The move came on the same day that…
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Sveriges Riksbank governor Erik Thedéen will take over as chair of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the committee’s oversight body said on May 13. The Group of Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS) appointed…
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Investing.com– Oil prices rose in Asian trade on Wednesday, extending recent gains on hopes that demand will pick up with the onset of the travel-heavy U.S. summer season. Traders also bet that the Organization of…
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