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Spanish fruit farmers arrested for using illegal wells during long-term drought
Farmers are turning to desperate measures in drought-hit Spain, which just had its warmest April on record. Twenty six people have been arrested for tapping illegal wells to grow tropical fruit in southern Spain, police said on Tuesday. During a four-year investigation, authorities uncovered more than 250 illegal wells, bore holes and ponds in the…
Breaking News | Germany | NewsGermany Nationalizes Biggest Gas Importer Uniper to Avert Collapse of Energy Sector
Germany nationalized Uniper, its largest utility company and importer of natural gas, on Sept. 21, in a move to keep its domestic energy industry afloat and to avert a collapse of the energy sector. The government in Berlin had earlier bailed out its largest gas importer in July with a $14.95 billion rescue loan, in…
China Maneuvers for Leadership of Anti-Western ‘Global South’ at BRICS Summit
The 2023 BRICS summit is scheduled for Tuesday through Thursday this week, bringing together the five member nations of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa to lay the groundwork for a world of post-American “inclusive multilateralism.” Judging by the coverage in Chinese state media, that world looks like a China-dominated rejection of Western security…
World’s oldest person on the keys to longevity: ‘stay away from toxic people’
María Branyas Morera, born in 1907, now in Guinness record books after death of Lucille Randon, 118, in French town of Toulon María Branyas Morera has lived through two world wars, the Spanish civil war, the 1918 flu pandemic and Covid. Now the California-born woman is the world’s oldest living person. Branyas, 115, became the…
House passes new rules for Congress as McCarthy clears first major test as House speaker
Rules passed with 220-213 vote that saw just one Republican vote against it The House of Representatives passed a new rules package Monday that overhauls the way it functions by putting up more barriers to congressional spending and creating a more deliberate process for passing legislation, which were key demands of the more conservative members…


