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#ICYMI TheTribuneOpinion: Punjab’s unfolding crises and India’s shifting geopolitical landscape
The Tribune (Chandigarh)
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June 15, 2025
The border state of Punjab dominated the Edit and Op-Ed pages of The Tribune this week, from its land acquisition policies to its fight against drugs and the stand of the Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) on its water war with Haryana. Former...
Single Payment Scheme and foot-and-mouth - what was agriculture like under the last Labour Government?
Farmers Guardian
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June 15, 2025
Last year saw the end of a 14-year Conservative Party reign, as Labour's Sir Keir Starmer entered Number 10 Downing Street as Prime Minister. Since the Autumn Budget was announced in October, farming has felt the pressure of funding cuts and...
India to subsidize ferry to Sri Lanka for another year
EconomyNext
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June 14, 2025
ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka will be deprived of key benefits in marine ecosystem research by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) due to the government’s delay in formulating standard operating procedures (SOP) to handle foreign...
India not ready to restart composite dialogue: Bilawal
The Nation
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June 15, 2025
BRUSSELS - Head of Pakistan’s high-level parliamentary delegation and PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari on Satur-day emphasised the need for comprehensive dialogue between Pakistan and India for resolution of all is-sues including Jammu and...
Russia’s aerial attack on Poltava region leaves homes, energy infrastructure damaged
Ukrinform
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June 15, 2025
Tonight, the enemy carried out a massive missile and drone attack targeting Poltava region. This was reported on Telegram by the head of the Poltava Regional Military Administration, Volodymyr Kohut, Ukrinform saw. "Last night, the enemy carried...
World Gin Day 2025: From Gin and Tonic's malaria connection to an almost $3 billion market by 2032, the gin boom hits India
Business Today
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June 14, 2025
What does your weekend G&T share with colonial India’s battle against malaria? Quite a lot, actually. The gin and tonic, now an iconic cocktail, owes its origins to the fight against malaria during the British Raj in the 19th century. Gin &...
Baku’s balanced policy under disinformation attack amid escalation in Middle East
AzerNews
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June 15, 2025
As Israeli jets tore through Iranian airspace on the night of June 12–13, targeting facilities linked to the IRGC missile program in Isfahan and Bushehr, the Middle East lurched toward a frighteningly familiar abyss. Internet outages, partial...
Rick Steves’ Europe: Berner Oberland hike offers dose of Swiss bliss
Honolulu Star-Advertiser - Hawaii
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June 15, 2025
1/2 Swipe or click to see more COURTESY CAMERON HEWITT Few restaurants can put you at eye level with snowy peaks as dramatically as this one atop Switzerland’s Schilthorn peak. 2/2 Swipe or click to see more COURTESY DOMINIC BONUCCELLI A...
Death toll rises to five, two missing as Typhoon Wutip floods submerge farmland in Vietnam
Malay Mail
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June 15, 2025
HANOI, June 15 — Typhoon winds and rains that lashed central Vietnam killed five people and left two more missing, according to an official toll, with huge tracts of farmland flooded by the deluge. Typhoon Wutip made landfall in southern China...
Indian Rat Snake vying for official reptile of Kerala status
The Hindu
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June 15, 2025
Rat snakes, also known as friends of farmers, have great conservation value and shall be protected by declaring it as the State Reptile. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu Indian Rat Snake (Ptyas mucosa), regionally known as Chera, may be notified as...
Trump Orders ICE to End Raids on Farms, Hotels, Restaurants — Focus Shifts to ‘Criminal’ Aliens Only
[your]NEWS
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June 15, 2025
New directive limits workplace enforcement to protect key industries from labor disruption By yourNEWS Media Newsroom President Donald Trump has directed Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to immediately halt all immigration raids on...
AFU Soldier Warns Ukraine’s Air Defenses Are Thinning as Russia Hammers With 194 Strikes
Kyiv Post
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June 15, 2025
Russia launched 194 drones and missiles into Ukraine from 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, June 14, until the morning of Sunday, June 15, the Ukrainian Air Force reported. According to the report on Telegram, Russia fired 183 Shahed strike UAVs and...
PM’s Europe trip helps realize Vietnam’s national development aspirations, determination
Vietnam Pictorial
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June 14, 2025
PM Pham Minh Chinh’s tour to Europe served as a source of inspiration for Vietnam to continue realizing its national development goals and attracting international resources in the new era. Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh (R) is welcomed by French...
Governance failure is the root of Nigeria’s farmer-herder crisis
The Cable
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June 15, 2025
BY THOMAS SAMUEL Last month, while presenting my paper titled “Reporting for Resolution: Climate Change, Resource Conflict, and Solution Journalism in Nigeria’s Farmer-Herder Crisis” at the NNPC Foundation Symposium on Energy and Sustainable...
Economic Watch: China's new energy technologies support green development in African countries
Xinhua News Agency
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CHANGSHA, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Green energy cooperation is a hot topic at the 4th China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo, which is taking place in central China from June 12 to 15. During the expo, cooperation deals between Chinese and African...
India’s space journey enters a new orbit
Navhind Times
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June 14, 2025
NANDKUMAR M. KAMAT India stands poised at the edge of a transformative moment in its space journey as group captain Shubhanshu Shukla prepares to become the first Indian astronaut to visit the International Space Station. This marks the nation’s...
Xi Focus: Xi Jinping drives China's relentless fight against desertification
Xinhua News Agency
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BEIJING, June 15 (Xinhua) -- Beijing's spring sandstorms in Xi Jinping's childhood weren't just natural phenomena to him; they were a persistent nuisance. "We had to wear thick masks," he once recalled. "If we left the windows open for just a day,...
After Musk’s Feud With Trump and Exit From Government, Will the White South African Refugee Cause Survive?
The New York Sun
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June 15, 2025
Two waves of white South African refugees have arrived in the United States under a Trump-era program granting asylum to Afrikaners claiming racial persecution. With 59 resettled in Virginia and a second group just landed in Atlanta, the policy —...
Japanese government confirms fresh US trade talks
Cryptopolitan
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June 15, 2025
Ryosei Akazawa, Japan’s top tariff negotiator, and US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick held a 30-minute phone call on Saturday. The Japanese government confirmed today that the two continued discussing a possible trade agreement. Akazawa also had...
China Weekly News Quiz: June 9-15, 2025
CGTN
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Do you know what happened in China last week? Take our weekly news quiz to test your knowledge and get up to speed on the latest developments in case you missed something. Select an option to find out if you got it right and click Next. China's...