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Ranked: The 50 Most Food Self-Sufficient Countries in the World
Visual Capitalist
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July 21, 2025
See this visualization first on the Voronoi app. Use This Visualization Ranked: 50 Countries That Can Feed Themselves This was originally posted on our Voronoi app. Download the app for free on iOS or Android and discover incredible data-driven...
USAID food for nearly 30,000 hungry kids to be destroyed: Official
Al Jazeera
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July 16, 2025
Food intended to feed 27,000 starving children in Afghanistan and Pakistan will soon be incinerated in the wake of President Donald Trump’s closure of the United States’ aid agency. A senior US official on Wednesday said nearly 500 tonnes of...
Should we treat rivers as living things?
Nature
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Is a River Alive? Robert Macfarlane Hamish Hamilton (2025) Thirst: In Search of Freshwater Wellcome Collection, London 26 June 2025–1 February 2026 Thirst: In Search of Freshwater Foreword by Robert Macfarlane. Wellcome Collection (2025) When...
China-made F-7 BGI jet under fire after Bangladesh crash — is this aircraft a safety risk?
The Economic Times
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July 21, 2025
A routine training flight went horribly wrong when a Bangladesh Air Force jet crashed into a school in Dhaka, leading to many casualties. The F-7 BGI jet, which was made in China, hit Milestone School and College soon after taking off. The...
Trade tensions set the stage as US and Chinese representatives hold talks in Malaysia
Cryptopolitan
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July 11, 2025
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday met with Chinese Foreign Affairs Minister Wang Yi in Malaysia on the sidelines of an East Asia Summit and ASEAN Regional forum on the backdrop of escalating trade tensions between Washington and Beijing....
US Signs Strategic Civil Nuclear Agreement with Malaysia– while Planning a Security Alliance in the Asia-Pacific Region
Inter Press Service
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July 16, 2025
Armed Conflicts, Editors' Choice, Featured, Global, Headlines, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Energy - Nuclear Weapons, TerraViva United Nations Malaysia is Chair of ASEAN for 2025. UNITED NATIONS, Jul 16 2025 (IPS) -...
Indonesia seizes $590m in meth, uncovers maritime drug route in South-east Asia
The Straits Times
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July 21, 2025
JAKARTA – Indonesia is on track to record the largest seizure of drugs by the National Narcotics Agency (BNN) in six years, said the agency’s chief, with confiscation of methamphetamine reaching 3.41 tonnes – with a street value of $590 million –...
Surat.. From Local City to Global Diamond Capital
Sada Elbalad
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July 20, 2025
Sun 20 Jul 2025 | 11:44 PM When the name “Surat” is mentioned, it doesn’t merely evoke a city on India’s western coast in the state of Gujarat, but rather a global hub for diamond cutting and trading, a place where rough stones from the farthest...
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How India is challenging China’s chokehold on critical minerals
Firstpost
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July 20, 2025
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent five-nation tour to Africa and the Americas (July 2-9) was strategic to the core from a geopolitical to geoeconomic context to acquire the geotechnological heft. Mutually beneficial collaboration in exploring...
Deported—To a Country You’ve Never Been To
Slate Magazine
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July 16, 2025
His client, Nyo Myint, is a refugee from Myanmar who was deported by the Trump administration—first to Djibouti, then to South Sudan—along with seven other men. His lawyer is now reaching out to the United Nations to intervene. Guest: Jonathan...
Indonesia to Japan: A Guide to Working Abroad
Tempo.co
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July 21, 2025
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The rumor that Indonesian migrant workers (PMI) would be blacklisted from entering Japan starting in 2026 has recently gone viral on social media. The speculation is believed to have stemmed from a series of criminal cases and...
Three-day illegal trade crackdown seizes goods worth K2.187 bln
Global New Light Of Myanmar
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July 20, 2025
Under the supervision of the Illegal Trade Eradication Steering Committee, efforts to combat the illicit trade are continued effectively by the law. On 17 July, the combined teams impounded a Forland truck (estimated value of K18 million) carrying...
Crohn’s Can’t Wait: Rethinking Care Across the Middle EastCrohn’s Can’t Wait: Rethinking Care Across the Middle East
MedEdge MEA
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July 21, 2025
Crohn’s disease is more than a gastrointestinal condition; it’s a lifelong, often invisible battle that disrupts routines, diets, work, and even identities. Across the Middle East, rising cases are pushing the condition out of the shadows and into...
Over 53 million Kyats’ worth of cement to be provided for reconstruction of homes damaged by powerful earthquake
Eleven Myanmar
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At the coordination meeting (3/2025) of the Myanmar Cement Manufacturers Association held at Meeting Room (30) of the Ministry of Industry yesterday, the Director General from the Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement announced that...
Govt: Not All U.S. Products Eligible for 0% Tariff, Alcohol and Pork Excluded
Tempo.co
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July 21, 2025
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - The Secretary of the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Susiwijono Moegiarso, clarified that Indonesia’s zero percent import tariff will not apply to all goods from the United States. Although the two countries had...
The Everywhere Insiders 8: U.S. Foreign Aid, Human Rights, and Global Security
The Good Men Project - California
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July 21, 2025
Irina Tsukerman is a human rights and national security attorney based in New York and Connecticut. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in National and Intercultural Studies and Middle East Studies from Fordham University in 2006, followed by a Juris...
Declining Western aid creates opportunity for China to expand development footprint in South-east Asia
Malay Mail
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July 21, 2025
SYDNEY, July 21 — China is set to expand its influence over South-east Asia’s development as the Trump administration and other Western donors slash aid, a study by an Australian think tank said Sunday. The region is in an “uncertain moment”,...
Daily seafood flow hits 500,000 tonnes at Yangon markets
Global New Light Of Myanmar
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July 10, 2025
Myanmar Fisheries Federation stated that about 500,000 tonnes of freshwater and saltwater fish and seafood steadily flow into the Yangon market daily starting from July. The fish spawning season ended, so the Myanmar sea is open to fishing. With...
1,777 companies, factories seek GACC certification
Global New Light Of Myanmar
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July 14, 2025
A total of 1,777 Myanmar food processing companies and factories have submitted 3,704 applications to the General Administration of Customs of the People’s Republic of China (GACC) as of 11 July 2025, according to the Domestic Trade Division (GACC...
Finepoint | India Plays Hardball With ASEAN After $45 Billion Trade Disaster
News18
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July 21, 2025
Last Updated:July 21, 2025, 11:58 IST India, facing a $45 billion trade deficit with ASEAN, is taking a tough stand—threatening to exit the FTA unless core concerns are addressed. India may be considering terminating its trade pact with ASEAN....