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Global urea prices rise with Middle East conflict
Farm Talk - Kansas
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Courtesy Adobe Stock. “Global prices of key fertilizer ingredient urea have surged alongside escalating [conflict] in the Middle East, which threatens to choke supplies of [urea] from a significant producing and exporting region,” reported...
Agritech startup Eeki raised $7 million from Sixth Sense Ventures
The Economic Times
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July 1, 2025
Agritech startup Eeki has raised $7 million from consumer-focussed fund Sixth Sense Ventures. The funds will be used for scaling up and expanding farm operations across India, as well as accelerating its technology rollouts. “We are expanding to...
Iran: The Things It Won’t Do to Say
Common Dreams
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July 1, 2025
In his unpublished preface to Animal Farm, George Orwell remarks that “the sinister fact about literary censorship in England is that it is largely voluntary. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that, or the other, but it is ‘not done’ to say...
Egypt raises the stakes against Ethiopia over Nile dam row
The New Arab
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July 1, 2025
Since the beginning of its construction in 2011, the GERD has fallen at the centre of tensions between Egypt and Ethiopia. [Getty] Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty has raised speculation about what his country might be up to in its...
Israel has killed 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7, 2023
St. Kitts Gazette
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July 1, 2025
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has escalated its violence in the occupied West Bank, killing 1,000 Palestinians. As the world was distracted by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which has killed more than 56,331 people and uprooted nearly the entire...
Iran is sinking in sinkholes from overwatering
Green Prophet
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July 1, 2025
What’s that sinking feeling? In Iran, the very ground under your feet may drop away. The issue here isn’t war. The issue is land subsidence, a human-caused phenomenon that’s been ignored and mismanaged In Iran for decades. Over-pumping of...
Türkiye Evacuates Over 50,000 People Due to Wildfires
teleSUR
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July 1, 2025
Damaged houses after wildfire in Seferihisar district, Türkiye, June 30, 2025. X/ @turkiyetodaycom July 1, 2025 Hour: 7:57 am On Monday, Türkiye evacuated more than 50,000 people from regions affected by forest fires across the country, with the...
Israeli army detains Palestinian family members after settlers attack village
Middle East Eye
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July 1, 2025
The Israeli army on Monday detained several members of the same Palestinian family in Masafer Yatta, in the occupied West Bank, after they attempted to remove a group of settlers encroaching on their land. Armed Israeli settlers brought their...
Israel has killed 1,000 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7, 2023
Al Jazeera
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July 1, 2025
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has escalated its violence in the occupied West Bank, killing 1,000 Palestinians. As the world was distracted by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, which has killed more than 56,331 people and uprooted nearly the entire...
Turning Point or Temporary Measure? Trump's Decision to Lift Sanctions Raise Questions in Syria
Zaman Al Wsl
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July 1, 2025
Syrian social media platforms witnessed a wave of joy and controversy following the White House's announcement on Monday that US President Donald Trump had signed an executive order to end sanctions imposed on Syria. Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad...
Who are the West Bank settlers attacking the Israeli army?
The New Arab
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July 1, 2025
Israeli settlers are turning on the military as they seek to curtail their extremist agenda [Getty] A wave of settler violence in the occupied West Bank has taken an unexpected turn inward, with dozens of Israeli settlers rampaging through...
FAO, Norway conclude agrifood systems transformation project in Jordan
Zawya
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AMMAN — The Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) and the government of Norway, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture in Jordan, on Monday held the closing ceremony for the “impactful” project,...
South Shropshire farmer's plan to turn hop store into farm shop gets green light
Shropshire Star
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July 1, 2025
Frank Matthews has been granted permission to change the use of an agricultural building to a farm shop at Burford Mill Farm, on the Shropshire/Worcestershire border, near Tenbury Wells. It will allow Mr Matthews to sell a selection of trees,...
Scorching temperatures no barrier for bumper Arable Event crowds
Farming Life
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July 1, 2025
Attend the 2025 Arable Event, an annual showcase of all things agricultural. Visitors enjoyed a day of knowledge-sharing and networking at the event held in Weston Under Lizard on the Shropshire/Staffordshire border on 18 June, which featured...
Claim too late for farm-to-forestry ban
Otago Daily Times
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July 1, 2025
The farm-to-forest ban passed its first reading last week but a Southland Federated Farmers executive says it is too late, the damage has been done and is continuing. Executive member and farmer Dean Rabbidge said since the ban’s announcement on...
Anti-Israel band plays victim after being hammered for saying ‘death to the IDF’ during music festival
Fox News
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The Punk-Rap duo Bob Vylan is under scrutiny after shouting anti-Israel rhetoric during the Glastonbury Festival on June 28, 2025. (Rockaway Park) NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! British punk-rap duo Bob Vylan doubled down on their...
Pakistan in BIG trouble after Israel-Iran war; petrol, diesel prices skyrocket, 1 litre costs Rs...
India.com
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July 1, 2025
Home News Pakistan in BIG trouble after Israel-Iran war; petrol, diesel prices skyrocket, 1 litre costs Rs… Pakistan on Monday hiked prices of petrol and diesel in wake of surging global crude oil prices due to the recent Israel-Iran war. (File)...
Senate President Proposes Direct Flights between Cambodia and Saudi Arabia
AKP
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AKP Phnom Penh, July 01, 2025 -- Samdech Akka Moha Sena Padei Techo Hun Sen, President of the Senate of Cambodia, has proposed the establishment of direct flights between Saudi Arabia and Cambodia to boost bilateral cooperation and enhance...
Terrifying Turkey wildfires rage through holiday district as 50,000 evacuated
The Mirror
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July 1, 2025
Tens of thousands of people have fled their homes as ferocious wildfires rage across Turkey. For the past three days, forest fires whipped up by robust winds have wreaked havoc in İzmir, which sits in the west of the country in an area loved by...
Record paddy procurement and global red rice export signal Assam’s agricultural leap: CM
The Statesman (India)
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July 1, 2025
Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday announced that the state has achieved its highest-ever paddy procurement, clocking an impressive 6.97 lakh metric tonnes (MT) during the Kharif Marketing Season (KMS) 2024–25, significantly surpassing...