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Kenya to insure livestock farmers against drought in $140 million plan

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya will spend $140 million to roll out an expanded insurance scheme for livestock farmers to cushion them against the vagaries of frequent droughts, officials said on Tuesday.

G7 climate ministers drop language on growing LNG demand in draft

By Kate Abnett and Makiko Yamazaki BRUSSELS/TOKYO (Reuters) - Climate ministers of the Group of Seven countries have backtracked for now on earlier language touting growing future demand for liquefied

India expected to see normal monsoon rains, to boost crop output

By Neha Arora and Rajendra Jadhav NEW DELHI/MUMBAI (Reuters) -India is likely to receive normal monsoon rainfall in 2023, the state-run weather office said on Tuesday, the fifth straight year of

India expected to see normal monsoon rains this year, says Ministry of Earth Sciences

A spell of good rains could lift farm & wider economic growth and help bring down food price inflation, which jumped in recent months and prompted the RBI to raise lending rates.

India likely to receive normal monsoon rains in 2023 -govt official

MUMBAI (Reuters) - India is likely to receive normal monsoon rains in 2023, the state-run weather office said on Tuesday, the fifth straight year of normal or above normal summer rains that spur farm

Australia’s iron ore hub of Port Hedland to be cleared ahead of cyclone

MELBOURNE (Reuters) -Western Australia's iron ore hub of Port Hedland will be cleared early on Wednesday as a tropical cyclone approaches, the Pilbara Ports Authority (PPA) said on Tuesday. A low

South Korea city wildfire fanned by strong winds, evacuations begin

SEOUL (Reuters) - More than 150 people evacuated from their homes in South Korea's eastern coastal city of Gangneung as strong winds and dry weather fanned a wildfire on Tuesday, officials said.

Eruption in Russia’s Kamchatka threatens aviation -response team

(Reuters) -The Shiveluch volcano in Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula erupted early on Tuesday and sent up an ash plume 10 kilometers (six miles) high, posing an increased threat to air traffic

Sandstorms, dangerous pollution return to Beijing

(Reuters) - Thick sandstorms will hit Beijing and several provinces through Wednesday, and Chinese forecasters have advised citizens of respiratory dangers and very low visibility while travelling,

New Zealand’s lower North Island hit by tornadoes

WELLINGTON (Reuters) - Tornadoes continued to plague New Zealand with one hitting north of the country's capital city of Wellington early on Tuesday, lifting roofs off houses and leaving one person

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FTA partners drive India’s trade surge as reliance on non-FTA countries dips, says NITI Aayog report

Share of trade with FTA partners rose from 4.6% in 2006 to 28.8% in 2024. India is currently negotiating or advancing agreements with US, Israel, GCC, Canada & Mexico.

Japan overhauls post-World War II pacifist military approach, lifts restrictions on defence exports

Since October last year, Japan PM Sanae Takaichi has planned to increase defence spending target to 2 percent of GDP.

Trump, Netanyahu’s Iran gamble: The regime change rebound

American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.