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Israeli settler set fire to hundreds of olive trees in the West Bank
Middle East Eye
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July 1, 2025
Hundreds of olive trees were destroyed after Israeli settlers set fire to large swathes of agricultural land in the Palestinian village of Duma, south of Nablus, according to officials cited by the Wafa news agency. Head of the village council,...
Farmers plant rice seedlings at field in Sharqia Governorate, Egypt
Xinhua News Agency
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Farmers plant rice seedlings at a field in Sharqia Governorate, Egypt, on July 1, 2025. Despite challenges such as water scarcity, rice cultivation remains a vital source of income for many farmers in northern Egypt. (Xinhua/Ahmed Gomaa) Farmers...
Turkmenistan Launches Competition of Innovative Projects “Digital Solution – 2025”
Turkmenportal
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The Turkmenaragatnashyk Agency announced the launch of the Digital Solution 2025 innovation projects competition, aimed at developing digital technologies in the country. Registration of participants is open on the Turkmentelecom EC website. The...
Turkey’s largest private bank issues $100m digital bond on Euroclear’s D-FMI
Ledger Insights
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July 1, 2025
Türkiye İş Bankası (İşbank) has issued a $100 million digital native note (DNN) on Euroclear’s D-FMI distributed ledger technology (DLT) infrastructure, with the International Finance Corporation (IFC), part of the World Bank Group, as the sole...
2025 FAO Awards honour organizations from Colombia, Egypt, and the Philippines for their contributions to agrifood systems transformation
Food and Agriculture Organization
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Rome - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) announced the winners of the 2025 FAO Awards, recognizing organizations from Colombia, Egypt, and the Philippines, whose work has led to outstanding progress in building more...
Letter to the Editor: Israel Uses False-Flag Attacks to Manipulate Us
Daily Bulldog - Maine
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July 1, 2025
I’ve told the story of how Pakistan and Saudi Arabia used what remained of the Taliban and Mujahidin to convince the United States it should restructure the Middle East, but I have not yet explained how Israel was involved. It is thanks to the...
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...
Engie Completes Africa's Largest Wind Farm Four Months Early
Offshore Engineer News
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July 1, 2025
French utility Engie has completed Africa's largest wind farm four months early, it said on Tuesday, as it targets the Middle East and North Africa as a priority region for future renewables growth. The 650 megawatt (MW) Red Sea Wind Energy...
Quneitra Residents Reopen Vital Road Closed by Israel
Enab Baladi
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July 1, 2025
Residents in Syria’s southern Quneitra countryside have reopened the Al‑Asbah–Kodna road, which was closed by Israel over ten days ago. Local officials and residents told Enab Baladi that villagers have cleared part of the route, now allowing...
Uzbekistan repatriates 50 women deported from Turkey over migration violations.
Kun.uz
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July 1, 2025
The Migration Agency has issued a warning to Uzbek citizens working illegally in Turkey, urging them to legalize their status to avoid deportation. Meanwhile, 50 women have already been repatriated, and another 28 are awaiting return. According to...
OIC: Israel Commits 3,496 Crimes, Killing, Injuring 2,652 Palestinians in 7 Days
Sada Elbalad
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July 1, 2025
Tue 01 Jul 2025 | 04:27 PM The Organization of Islamic Cooperation's Media Observatory for Israeli Crimes Against Palestinians has reported on the number of Palestinians killed by Israeli occupation forces between October 7, 2023, and June 30,...
Public anger grows as wildfires rage in Turkey amid government inaction and media silence
Stockholm Center for Freedom
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July 1, 2025
Wildfires tearing through three provinces in Turkey have sparked public outrage, with residents turning to social media to condemn what they describe as government inaction in getting the fires under control and a lack of media attention to the...
UN Rapporteur Accuses Multinationals of Profiting from Israeli Genocide
teleSUR
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July 1, 2025
Francesca Albanese demands sanctions, reparations for Palestine, and legal action against involved executives and corporations. July 1, 2025 Hour: 3:23 pm Among the main beneficiaries are investment giants like BlackRock and Vanguard, which...
Asamoah Gyan ventures into poultry farming
GhanaWeb
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July 1, 2025
Former Black Stars striker Asamoah Gyan, famously known as “Baby Jet,” is once again commanding attention, but this time, it’s not on the football pitch. In a TikTok video making waves online, Gyan is seen inspecting his poultry farm while dressed...
UN report lists companies complicit in Israel’s ‘genocide’: Who are they?
Yahoo News
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The United Nations special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) has released a new report mapping the corporations aiding Israel in the displacement of Palestinians and its genocidal war on Gaza,...
Carbondale Farmers Market to celebrate 50th anniversary
KFVS - Missouri
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July 1, 2025
CARBONDALE, Ill. (KFVS) - The Carbondale Farmers Market will mark its 50th anniversary. Join them on Saturday, July 5 for customer appreciation day to celebrate. Organizers say Cold Blooded Smokehouse & Catering will be cooking up donated food...
Students of the Tashkent Institute are interning in Turkmenistan
Turkmenistan Golden Age
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July 1, 2025
Students of the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Agricultural Mechanization Engineers of the Republic of Uzbekistan are undergoing an internship in S.A. Niyazov Turkmen Agricultural University, organized in the period from June 25 to July 4....
Young scientists from Turkmenistan won gold at an international competition in Malaysia
Turkmenistan Golden Age
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June 30, 2025
Young scientists from Turkmenistan have won gold medals, having performed with great success at the prestigious International competition of innovative creativity Borneo BIICC-2025 (Borneo International Innovation Creativity Competition), held in...
Letters to the editor: Readers weigh in on proposed Medicaid cuts, Iran
Lincoln Journal Star - Nebraska
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Journal Star readers touched on the "Big Beautiful Bill," proposed Medicaid cuts and Iran. Past letters Cutting Medicaid is self-destructive I’m a pediatric nurse practitioner and former nurse educator. I worked my way through school as a single...
95% of Gaza's farmland no longer usable as Israeli aggression wipes out food production: FAO
The Peninsula
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July 1, 2025
A Palestinian boy checks the wreckage of a car at the rubble of a residential house in Deir el-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on July 1, 2025. (Photo by Eyad BABA / AFP) Rome: The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)...