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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…
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Iranian navy launches military exercises ahead of nuclear talks
Iranian naval forces began military exercises Monday in the strategic waterway of the Strait of Hormuz, the day before a second round of talks with the United States for a nuclear deal amid heightened tensions. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s naval drills are dubbed “Smart Control of Hormuz Strait” and are rehearsing scenarios to respond…
Nagorno-Karabakh: Conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenians explained
Azerbaijan says it has begun a military operation in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The territory is recognised internationally as part of Azerbaijan but large areas of it have been controlled by ethnic Armenians for three decades. Nagorno-Karabakh, which lies in the mountainous South Caucasus region, is at the heart of one of the world’s…
