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Catalonia's Puigdemont says pro-independence party close to taking back control of region
Catalonia's former president Carles Puigdemont, who has been living in self-exile since a failed independence bid seven years ago, believes his party is "neck and neck" with Spain's ruling Socialists to win control of the region in an election in May. Puigdemont said that if it failed to do so, he may reconsider his party's critical support for the national government.
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North Korea is buying Chinese surveillance cameras in a push to tighten control, report says
North Korea is putting surveillance cameras in schools and workplaces and collecting fingerprints, photographs and other biometric information from its citizens in a technology-driven push to monitor its population even more closely, a report said Tuesday. The state's growing use of digital surveillance tools, which combine equipment imported from China with domestically developed software, threatens to erase many of the small spaces North Koreans have left to engage in private business activit
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Sunak Faces Election With Second Lowest Growth in G-7, IMF Warns
(Bloomberg) -- UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will go into an election having beaten the inflation crisis but having annual economic growth this year weaker than in any other Group of Seven nation other than Germany, according to the International Monetary Fund.Most Read from BloombergBeyond the Ivies: Surprise Winners in the List of Colleges With the Highest ROIChina Tells Iran Cooperation Will Last After Attack on IsraelS&P 500 Futures Steady After Selloff Rattles Globe: Markets WrapMicrosoft I
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German minister praises Romania's efforts on EU asylum cooperation
German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser has praised Romania's efforts toward European solidarity on asylum issues as part of its bid to fully join the Schengen zone. "I would like to express my gratitude for the good cooperation in this area," the minister said after talks with her Romanian counterpart, Interior Minister Cătălin Predoiu, in Bucharest on Tuesday. Germany is supporting Romania and Bulgaria, where Faeser visited the border with Turkey on Monday, in their endeavours to fully join the
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UN's Türk says more must be done to end 'horrific' crisis in Gaza
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk is calling for fresh efforts by "all states with influence" to ease the "horrific" conditions in Gaza and the West Bank. "Resolving the catastrophic situation of civilians in Gaza must remain a priority," Türk's spokeswoman said, while also adding that violence in the West Bank is a matter of "grave concern." Israel continues to obstruct the import and distribution of aid supplies in the Gaza Strip, which is a violation of international law, the
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Australia's leader says French worker who intervened in stabbing attack can stay as long as he likes
Australia's prime minister said Tuesday a French construction worker who confronted a man who stabbed six people to death in a Sydney shopping mall is welcome to stay in the country as long as he likes. Damien Guerot was nicknamed “Bollard Man” on social media after security camera footage showed him standing at the top of an escalator on Saturday and menacing Joel Cauchi with a plastic bollard — or barrier post — as he approached. Cauchi fled down the escalator and people on Guerot’s floor we
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Apple CEO says that he wants to increase investments in Vietnam
Apple CEO Tim Cook said Tuesday that he wants to further increase investment in Vietnam a day after the company announced it would spending on suppliers in the Southeast Asian manufacturing hub. Vietnam has become more important to Apple as the company seeks to diversify its supply chains away from China, where most of its smartphones and tablets are assembled. The company began looking at moving its production to countries like Vietnam, and more recently India, after shutdowns to fight COVID-
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The artist running Israel’s Venice Biennale pavilion says she won’t open it until hostage deal and Gaza ceasefire is reached
Israel’s representative at Venice’s Biennale exhibition has said she won’t unveil the country’s pavilion until a hostage and ceasefire deal has been reached in Gaza.
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Argentina buys 24 of Denmark's aging F-16 fighter jets
Argentina's defense minister signed a deal Tuesday worth about 2.1 billion kroner ($300 million) to buy 24 of Denmark’s aging F-16 fighter jets. Denmark is getting new F-35 aircraft, and the sale of the nearly 40-year-old F-16s that "have been thoroughly maintained and technologically updated” means that Argentina will “become part of the global F-16 family,” said the Danish defense minister, Troels Lund Poulsen. Denmark has 30 operative F-16s.
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Iran's president again warns Israel against counterattack
Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi has once again warned Israel against mounting a military counterattack following Iran's recent air assault on Israel. During a telephone call with Qatar's Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, Raisi warned that "the slightest action" by Israel against Iran's national interests "will have extensive and painful consequences." Details of the call were published on the web portal of Iran's presidential office. Iran has recently warned Israel several times of a military respon
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Armenia insists top UN court has jurisdiction to hear case accusing Azerbaijan of racial hatred
Armenia insisted Tuesday that the top United Nations court has jurisdiction to hear its case accusing Azerbaijan of breaching an international convention that aims to stamp out racial discrimination. At a preliminary hearing Monday, Azerbaijan had urged the International Court of Justice to toss out for lack of jurisdiction the case Armenia filed in 2021 that accuses Azerbaijan of a “state-sponsored policy of Armenian hatred” that has led to “systemic discrimination, mass killings, torture and
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Flood death toll in Afghanistan rises to at least 50 people
Flooding caused by heavy rains over the past four days has claimed the lives of at least 50 people in Afghanistan, the country's National Disaster Management Authority reported on Tuesday. Another 36 people were injured in the floods, agency spokesman Janan Sayaq said. Officials previously reported 33 deaths nationwide. Sayaq added that the floods caused significant damage, including destroying agricultural land and homes. Afghanistan is reeling from the after-effects of decades of conflict and
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Stabbed Iran International journalist Pouria Zeraati 'feeling much better'
Iran International's Pouria Zeraati says he was approached by a man asking for change before he was stabbed.
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World’s No. 2 Citrus Exporter Challenges EU on Restrictions
(Bloomberg) -- South Africa has taken a preliminary step toward filing a complaint with the World Trade Organization against the European Union over its treatment of citrus purchases from the country. Most Read from BloombergBeyond the Ivies: Surprise Winners in the List of Colleges With the Highest ROIChina Tells Iran Cooperation Will Last After Attack on IsraelS&P 500 Futures Steady After Selloff Rattles Globe: Markets WrapMicrosoft Invests $1.5 Billion in UAE’s G42 in Pivot From ChinaIran’s A
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New Zealand PM Says Fiscal Restraint Key to Taming Prices, Stoking Growth
(Bloomberg) -- New Zealand needs to check government spending for it to successfully tame inflation, Prime Minister Christopher Luxon said weeks before releasing his administration’s first fiscal blueprint.Most Read from BloombergBeyond the Ivies: Surprise Winners in the List of Colleges With the Highest ROIChina Tells Iran Cooperation Will Last After Attack on IsraelS&P 500 Futures Steady After Selloff Rattles Globe: Markets WrapMicrosoft Invests $1.5 Billion in UAE’s G42 in Pivot From ChinaIra
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Singapore Charts New Path After Decades of Lee Family Rule
(Bloomberg) -- For most of Singapore’s history as an independent nation, there has been a Lee at the helm. That’s now coming to an end. Most Read from BloombergBeyond the Ivies: Surprise Winners in the List of Colleges With the Highest ROIChina Tells Iran Cooperation Will Last After Attack on IsraelS&P 500 Futures Steady After Selloff Rattles Globe: Markets WrapMicrosoft Invests $1.5 Billion in UAE’s G42 in Pivot From ChinaIran’s Attack on Israel Sparks Race to Avert a Full-Blown WarLee Hsien Lo
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Xi Rebuffs Scholz Pressure to Rein In Chinese Manufacturing
(Bloomberg) -- Chinese leader Xi Jinping told the German chancellor that a surge in clean-technology exports from the Asian nation has helped the world tackle inflation, pushing back against European and US pressure to rein in the country’s powerhouse industries.Most Read from BloombergBeyond the Ivies: Surprise Winners in the List of Colleges With the Highest ROIChina Tells Iran Cooperation Will Last After Attack on IsraelS&P 500 Futures Steady After Selloff Rattles Globe: Markets WrapMicrosoft
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Alfa Romeo changes name of first EV after row with Italian government
Alfa Romeo is changing the name of its first electric vehicle from "Milano" to "Junior", after legal threats from the Italian government over the company's decision to make the car in Poland. Alfa Romeo parent company Stellantis announced last week that the EV would be called Alfa Romeo Milano after the city where the Italian carmaker was founded in 1910. But the country's government then warned that to do so could be against the law, with Industry Minister Adolfo Urso adamant that "a car called
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'Go home': Overtourism sparks backlash in Spain
Anti-tourism movements are multiplying in Spain, the world's second most visited country, prompting authorities to try and reconcile the interests of locals and the lucrative sector.- 'Go home' - Similar anti-tourism movements have sprung up elsewhere in Spain and are active on social media.
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Israel launches 'diplomatic offensive' against Iran
Israel's foreign minister has launched what he called a "diplomatic offensive" against Iran following the major Iranian attack on Israel. "This morning I sent letters to 32 countries and spoke with dozens of foreign ministers and leading figures around the world," Israel Katz wrote on Tuesday on the X platform, formerly Twitter. He called for sanctions to be imposed on Iran's missile programme and for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to be declared a terrorist organization. Katz beli
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Qatar Airways and Latin America best in March for punctual flying
Travellers hoping to avoid airport delays are best to book with Qatar Airways or fly in Latin America. That's because Qatar Airways was the world's most "on-time" carrier in March, according to data published by Cirium, an aviation industry analytics business, which show Latin America as the region with the most timely arrivals and departures. Turkish carrier Pegasus Airlines was listed second overall, but the rest of the top 5 was made up of Colombia’s Avianca, AeroMexico and Chile's LATAM Airl
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China is not a party to Ukraine war, Xi tells Scholz in Beijing
Chinese President Xi Jinping said that China is not involved in Russia's war against Ukraine during talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. China is neither a party nor a participant in the Ukraine crisis, according to a statement on Tuesday following the meeting between the two in Beijing. Instead, China has always "promoted peace talks in its own way," Xi said. Beijing would support an international peace conference "in due course," but Russia and Ukraine would have to accept it, the Chinese
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Emmanuel Macron says Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony could be changed in case of terrorism threat
French President Emmanuel Macron has said authorities will have an alternative plan in case of a terrorism threat at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony.
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Russian Crude Shipments Surge to the Highest in Almost a Year
(Bloomberg) -- Russia’s seaborne crude exports soared to an 11-month high in the second week of April with flows from all major ports near peak levels.Most Read from BloombergBeyond the Ivies: Surprise Winners in the List of Colleges With the Highest ROIChina Tells Iran Cooperation Will Last After Attack on IsraelS&P 500 Futures Steady After Selloff Rattles Globe: Markets WrapMicrosoft Invests $1.5 Billion in UAE’s G42 in Pivot From ChinaIran’s Attack on Israel Sparks Race to Avert a Full-Blown
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Germany's Scholz meets China's Xi in Beijing for talks
On the final day of a three-day trip to China, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has met with President Xi Jinping in Beijing to discuss economic cooperation and geopolitical flashpoints. In a brief statement before their meeting, Scholz addressed the Ukraine war, climate protection and trade ties. Scholz said he would emphasize to Xi, who has friendly relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, that Moscow's war against Ukraine negatively impacts not only Europe, but the world. The West accuse
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Germany's avocado imports more than quintuple over past decade
The number of avocados imported into Germany last year amounted to 157,800 tons, marking a quintupling in volume over the past decade, figures released on Tuesday showed. The value of the imports rose from €68.3 million in 2013 to €484 million ($513 million) in 2023, the Federal Statistical Office said. Because avocados need a warm climate to grow, they often travel thousands of kilometres before they end up in consumers' shopping baskets in German supermarkets. The most important country of ori
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Nissan says it will make next-generation EV batteries by early 2029
Nissan expects to mass produce electric vehicles powered by advanced next-generation batteries by early 2029, the company said Tuesday during a media tour of an unfinished pilot plant. Japan's legacy automakers have fallen behind newer rivals like America's Tesla and China's BYD in the emerging all-electric auto sector.
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Germany's far-right AfD admonishes Bavarian MPs for Russia trip
The federal leadership of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party has issued a warning to three of its members in Bavaria's regional parliament for travelling to Russia for the presidential election in March. The three members of the Bavarian parliament - Ulrich Singer, Andreas Jurca and Elena Roon - said they had travelled to Russia as election observers at the invitation of the Russian government. Jurca explained that the aim was to assess the organization and conduct of the election
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EU Goes on China Trade Offensive After Getting ‘Played’
(Bloomberg) -- European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen is unleashing a barrage of trade restrictions against China as she seeks to follow through on a pledge to make the EU a more relevant political player on the global stage. Most Read from BloombergBeyond the Ivies: Surprise Winners in the List of Colleges With the Highest ROIChina Tells Iran Cooperation Will Last After Attack on IsraelS&P 500 Futures Steady After Selloff Rattles Globe: Markets WrapMicrosoft Invests $1.5 Billion in
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Germany's Scholz and China's President Xi call for closer cooperation
At the start of his meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for close cooperation between the two countries. "Together we can breathe more stability and security into the world," said Xi, according to an official translation. "As long as we stick to the principles of mutual respect, seeking common ground despite differences and learning from each other, bilateral relations can continue to develop stably." Xi said that a "new era of turbulence and upheaval"
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Australia Is Planning Its First National Environmental Agency
(Bloomberg) -- Australia plans to set up an independent regulator to hold business to account over environmental breaches. Most Read from BloombergBeyond the Ivies: Surprise Winners in the List of Colleges With the Highest ROIChina Tells Iran Cooperation Will Last After Attack on IsraelS&P 500 Futures Steady After Selloff Rattles Globe: Markets WrapMicrosoft Invests $1.5 Billion in UAE’s G42 in Pivot From ChinaIran’s Attack on Israel Sparks Race to Avert a Full-Blown WarThe Environment Protectio
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Chinese city Zhengzhou tells state-owned company to buy second-hand homes to reduce new housing inventories
China's central city of Zhengzhou has asked residents to sell their second-hand homes to a local state-owned company and buy new ones instead, in a bid to reduce new-home inventories and boost the local property sector. Local state state-owned company Zhengzhou Urban Development Group Co. will buy 500 second-hand homes from April 20 to June 30, according to a notice released by the Zhengzhou Real Estate Association on Monday. Most of China's small and medium-sized cities have suffered frail pr
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What will happen to protesters who were arrested in the Bay Area?
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) – Protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza took over several highways in the Bay Area on Monday. The protests come five months after protesters blocked off the Bay Bridge. Eighty people were charged for those protests, 78 of whom made a deal with prosecutors to do five hours of community service […]
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Video shows women dancing in India metro, not Bangladesh
Footage of two women performing an intimate dance in a train carriage was filmed in India, contrary to social media posts falsely claiming the incident occurred in Bangladesh. Posts accused the pair of "promoting homosexuality" in the conservative Muslim-majority country. However, a Delhi metro official confirmed the stunt took place in the Indian capital. Police were reportedly investigating the women for allegedly breaking laws on "nuisance" and "obscene acts and songs".
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Modi Defends Scrapped Electoral Bonds Ahead of National Vote
(Bloomberg) -- As India heads into an election, follow Bloomberg India's channel on WhatsApp for how money and business intersect with politics and power. Sign up here.Most Read from BloombergBeyond the Ivies: Surprise Winners in the List of Colleges With the Highest ROIChina Tells Iran Cooperation Will Last After Attack on IsraelS&P 500 Futures Steady After Selloff Rattles Globe: Markets WrapMicrosoft Invests $1.5 Billion in UAE’s G42 in Pivot From ChinaIran’s Attack on Israel Sparks Race to Av
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Philippines-China Tensions Hitting Peso, Central Bank Chief Says
(Bloomberg) -- Tensions between the Philippines and China over competing maritime claims have added to pressures on the peso that has slumped to a seven-month low, and “an escalation would be a big concern” for investors, according to the Southeast Asian nation’s central bank chief.Most Read from BloombergBeyond the Ivies: Surprise Winners in the List of Colleges With the Highest ROIChina Tells Iran Cooperation Will Last After Attack on IsraelS&P 500 Futures Steady After Selloff Rattles Globe: M
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AP PHOTOS: What's on the voters’ minds as India heads into a 6-week national election
Raj Sud, 94, has voted in almost every election held in independent India, bearing witness to the eventful journey of a diverse, and now the world’s most populous, democracy over the last 76 years. Nearly 970 million people are eligible to vote in India’s 6-week national election starting Friday, and the elderly homemaker has a clear favorite in the race. Most polls have predicted a victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party for a third straight f
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Kazakhstan, Russia grapple with floods along Siberian rivers
PETROPAVLOVSK, Kazakhstan (Reuters) -More than 2,000 houses were flooded in Kazakhstan's northernmost region as of Tuesday, authorities said, while across the border in Russia, Kurgan and Tyumen provinces were also evacuating thousands of people due to the deluge. Water levels in rivers in swathes of Russia's Ural and southwestern Siberian regions, as well as adjacent areas of Kazakhstan, were still rising rapidly, officials said. More than 300 houses and nearly 700 residential plots have been
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OnePlus runs into a setback in its biggest market
Over 4,500 retail outlets in key parts of India will discontinue sales of OnePlus phones, tablets, and accessories from May 1.
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China Tells Iran Cooperation Will Last After Attack on Israel
(Bloomberg) -- China’s top diplomat told Iran that the nations can work together across a range of areas in the future, signaling their ties remain solid following Tehran’s unprecedented attack on Israel.Most Read from BloombergBeyond the Ivies: Surprise Winners in the List of Colleges With the Highest ROIChina Tells Iran Cooperation Will Last After Attack on IsraelS&P 500 Futures Steady After Selloff Rattles Globe: Markets WrapMicrosoft Invests $1.5 Billion in UAE’s G42 in Pivot From ChinaIran’
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South Korean President Yoon ‘Humbly’ Accepts Election Loss
(Bloomberg) -- South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol pledged to listen to people’s voices more closely and improve the lives of the needy in his first public comments since his conservative party suffered a stinging defeat in parliamentary elections last week.Most Read from BloombergBeyond the Ivies: Surprise Winners in the List of Colleges With the Highest ROIChina Tells Iran Cooperation Will Last After Attack on IsraelS&P 500 Futures Steady After Selloff Rattles Globe: Markets WrapMicrosoft Inv
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Mexico’s Sheinbaum Plans to Spend Billions on Gas, Solar Plants
(Bloomberg) -- Mexico’s leading presidential candidate would spend around $13.6 billion to boost her country’s use of renewable energy while still adding gas-burning power plants, according to a plan she presented to business leaders. Most Read from BloombergBeyond the Ivies: Surprise Winners in the List of Colleges With the Highest ROIChina Tells Iran Cooperation Will Last After Attack on IsraelS&P 500 Futures Steady After Selloff Rattles Globe: Markets WrapMicrosoft Invests $1.5 Billion in UAE
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UK MPs Reject Changes to Rwanda Bill and Send It Back to Lords
(Bloomberg) -- Members of Parliament rejected changes made by the House of Lords to Rishi Sunak’s controversial legislation to declare Rwanda a safe destination for deported asylum seekers, punting the bill back to the UK’s upper chamber.Most Read from BloombergBeyond the Ivies: Surprise Winners in the List of Colleges With the Highest ROIChina Tells Iran Cooperation Will Last After Attack on IsraelS&P 500 Futures Steady After Selloff Rattles Globe: Markets WrapMicrosoft Invests $1.5 Billion in
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Protesters demand Georgia government withdraw proposed 'Russian law'
Critics say the bill mirrors similar legislation introduced by President Vladimir Putin in Russia.
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Israeli defence minister discusses next steps in Rafah
Israel's Defence Minister Yoav Gallant discussed further action in Rafah on Monday evening with representatives of his ministry and the Israeli COGAT authority which oversees contacts with the Palestinians and aid. They focused on the evacuation of civilians from Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip and the expansion of food and medicine deliveries, according to the government press office. More than a million people have fled to Rafah from attacks throughout the densely populated strip and the
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Huge Saharan dust blob cooling eastern Atlantic
A huge plume of Saharan dust is now visible on satellite loops coming off of Africa into the eastern Tropical Atlantic Ocean.
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Colombia's capital announces new measures to cut water consumption as dry weather persists
The mayor of Colombia's capital on Monday announced new measures to reduce water consumption in the city of eight million people, where a drought associated with the El Niño weather pattern has already prompted officials to ration water in most neighborhoods and ask residents to change their showering habits. In a statement aired by local media, Bogotá's Mayor Carlos Fernando Galán said homes that use more than 22 cubic meters of water per month will have to pay additional fees. “We have start
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Chad’s Closed Election Pits Leader Against Own Prime Minister
(Bloomberg) -- Chad’s interim president Mahamat Deby, who seized power after his father’s death, is running for the top job against his prime minister, raising concerns that he has no real opposition.Most Read from BloombergBeyond the Ivies: Surprise Winners in the List of Colleges With the Highest ROIChina Tells Iran Cooperation Will Last After Attack on IsraelS&P 500 Futures Steady After Selloff Rattles Globe: Markets WrapMicrosoft Invests $1.5 Billion in UAE’s G42 in Pivot From ChinaIran’s At
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Israeli general staff chief says there will be a response to Iran
There will be a response to the unprecedented Iranian missile and drone attack on Israel, according to Israeli Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi, who addressed the Nevatim airbase on Monday. "As we look ahead, we are considering our steps," he told the base that was involved in defending Israel against the attack that occurred late Saturday night. An attack involving so many rockets on Israeli territory would be followed by a response, Halevi said. Israel is weighing a response that is painful to Iran
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Iran may face new EU sanctions after attack on Israel
The EU could impose new sanctions on Iran after Tehran's direct attack on Israel, several diplomats said on Monday evening after talks between members' envoys. The issue is likely to be discussed this Tuesday during a video conference of foreign ministers called by the bloc's top diplomat Josep Borrell. It comes after Iran directly attacked Israel on Saturday, for the first time in the history of the Islamic Republic, in retaliation for the killing of high-ranking Iranian officers in Syria at th
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