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The United Nations-supported Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) reports that around one million species are on the verge of extinction. There are a number of species listed as threatened, including giraffes, parrots, oak trees, cacti, and seaweed. The world’s giraffe population is estimated to be less than 600; the species is hunted for its meat and their habitat is degraded due to unsustainable harvesting of wood and increased agricultural demand. If humans do not interact with nature more sustainably, the current biodiversity crisis will worsen, resulting in catastrophic outcomes for humanity, according to UN experts. It…

According to Ministry of Finance statistics, Abu Dhabi’s public spending in the first quarter of 2022 totaled AED87.4 billion, an increase of 19.6 percent and equivalent to AED14.34 billion over the same period last year. Moreover, the figures showed that the country’s public spending in the first quarter of 2022 included some AED28.7 billion for employee compensation payments, as compared to AED24.6 billion in 2021, an increase of 16.6 percent and equivalent to AED4.1 billion. In addition, public spending included AED30.9 billion in goods and services, AED14.1 billion in social benefits, AED6.4 billion in financial aid, AED1.7 billion in interest,…

An international buyer-seller meet in Ladakh attended by buyers from Dubai and Oman and buyer-seller meetings in the UAE on agricultural and food products with registered geographical indications (GIs) tags, as well as a mango festival in Bahrain, resulted in India exporting these items by 31 percent between April and June. From April to June 2022, the export of agricultural and food products in India increased by US$7,408 million from $5,663 million in the previous fiscal year, according to data released by the Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCI&S). This quarter’s export target was $5,890 million, which was…

On Sunday, a bomb dating back to World War II was detonated in northern Italy, forcing 3,000 people to evacuate for safety. The 450-kilogram bomb was spotted in the Po river near Mantua, some 160 kilometers south-east of Milan, according to the German press agency (dpa). A controlled explosion was carried out in a cave 45 kilometers away after the detonator was removed from the bomb. Sunday afternoon, near the Po river in Italy, the bomb was neutralized by controlled means. Massive fear was triggered when the bomb was discovered, which weighed 450 kilograms. Police in Borgo Virgilio immediately began…

During his remarks during an event marked by the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, United Nations Secretary General, Antonio Guterres underscored the fact that it is entirely unacceptable for states possessing nuclear weapons to acknowledge the possibility of a nuclear war. “Nuclear weapons are nonsense. Three-quarters of a century later, we must ask what we’ve learned from the mushroom cloud that swelled above this city in 1945”, he urged during the solemn event at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park attended by dozens of people, including Hibakusha, young peace activists, Japan’s Prime Minister and other local authorities. World leaders…

It has been reported that 160 cases of monkeypox have been reported in Austria. It has already been recorded in the epidemiological register (EMS) that 45 of these patients have already recovered from their illness. This is evident from the update of the number of cases on the Austrian Agency for Health and Food Safety (AGES) website on Friday. There have been 28 new cases added since then. There are reports that the second delivery of vaccines against monkeypox has arrived in Austria, according to the Ministry of Health. Vaccines will be given to individuals who have direct contact with…

Egypt’s U20 football national team defeated Algeria 3-1 in their semi-final match held in Saudi Arabia to qualify for the 2022 U-20 Arab Cup Finals. The Egyptian team led 2-0 after the first half before Algeria scored in the 69th minute of the second half to reduce the score to 2-1. However, the Egyptians succeeded in adding a decisive third goal in the 79th minute to ensure that they would qualify for the final match of the 2022 U-20 Arab Cup against their Saudi counterparts, who beat Palestine 5-0 in the semi-final, on August 6th at the Prince Sultan bin…

As a result of the efforts of the Indian Government under the progressive leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, almost 1.4 million electric vehicles (EVs) are currently running on the roads throughout the country. A total of over half a million two-wheelers, almost 800 thousand three-wheelers, and more than fifty-four thousand four-wheelers are included in this number. Minister of State for Heavy Industries Krishan Pal Gurjar informed the Rajya Sabha of this today. Based on information available on VAHAN-4’s centralized database of registration certificates, the sale of Electric Vehicles in the Financial Year 2021-22 increased over three times compared to…

Under the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Anna Yojana, 824,000 Metric Tonnes of free foodgrains have been provided to the poor across the country with a subsidy outlay of around two lakh 79 thousand crore rupees as of July 31. Minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti provided this information in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today. In the wake of the outbreak of COVID-19, which started in March 2020, the Minister said the Department had started distributing additional and free-of-cost foodgrains under the scheme to a total of…

In the wake of the developments in Ukraine, food prices fell for the fourth consecutive month in July, according to the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). As expected, the UN agency has published its latest Food Price Index, a barometer that tracks changes in prices of five food commodities: cereals, vegetable oils, dairy products, meat, and sugar. In July, the index averaged 140.9 points, down 8.6 points from June. As a result of the UN-brokered agreement on Ukrainian grain exports, vegetable oils and cereals experienced double-digit percentage drops in price. “Especially from a food access perspective, the decline in food…