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On March 8, Chinacanceled a shipment of 240,000 metric tons of US soft red winter wheat. On March 15, another batch, this time 264,000 tons, was also canceled. US exporters were left with the option to either hold on to the half a million tons or find alternative buyers. Australian wheat deliveries were also affected in March, as Chinese importers either canceled or postponed around 1 million tons of Australian wheat shipments to the second quarter. Andrew Whitelaw, an agricultural consultant with market analysis service Episode 3 in Canberra, Australia, referred to the cancellation of cargoes as “a bearish indicator.” “Whether they…

A New York judge rejected on Monday a bid by former US President Donald Trump to delay his hush money criminal trial, due to start next week, as he tries to move the case out of Manhattan, New York. Associate Justice Lizbeth Gonzalez issued her decision shortly after a half-hour hearing at the Appellate Division in Manhattan. Why was Trump trying to postpone the case? The former president and his legal team argued that Manhattan, where the trial is set to take place on April 15 and the jury is due to be assembled, is a Democrat stronghold with residents biased…

How much will Donald Trump have enjoyed it?A British Foreign Secretary – the same one who had described him, variously, as “stupid,” “wrong” and “misogynistic” – knocking on his door to ask a favour. Toe-curling stuff, but a necessity nonetheless.Lord Cameron’s US detour to Mar-a-Lago acknowledges where power lies in the political arm wrestle over Ukraine aid. Trump is against the $60bn package, as it stands, and his influence shapes opposition on the Republican right. Image: Donald Trump giving a statement on abortion policy on Monday. Pic: Reuters Lord Cameron told Donald Trump that Ukraine’s war was America’s war, too,…

Ernest Hemingway has famously been credited with saying: “It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” But then again, Hemingway didn’t quite have the kind of modern, jet-setting lifestyle that many people have become used to. Air travel is more popular than ever, and is projected to almost double from 3.7 billion global air passengers in 2016 to 7.2 billion in 2035. But it’s also killing the environment: aviation accounts for around 2% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.  So instead of having yet another hypothetical discussion about how we all ought to…

04/08/2024April 8, 2024Zelenskyy says stalled US aid could mean defeat for UkraineUkraine’s allies must step up support and provide proper air defenses, as Kyiv fends off Russian forces in several flashpoints, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. In his nightly address on Sunday, Zelenskyy said the world must “finally hear” the pain inflicted on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, which has been subject to a recent wave of attacks and bombings. “It is quite obvious that our existing air defense capabilities in Ukraine are not sufficient and it is obvious to our partners,” Zelenskyy said. Earlier on Sunday, the president warned during…

Ecuador’s detained former Vice President Jorge Glas was hospitalized on Monday, barely three days after his arrest during a highly controversial raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito, where he was seeking refuge. Glas fell ill at a prison in Guayaquil, prison authorities said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter. The former vice president’s arrest from the Mexican embassy has caused a spat between Mexico and Ecuador and invited an outpouring of condemnation from the latter. Indeed, Quito is accused of violating the 1961 Vienna Convention governing international relations.Ecuador draws outrage after raid on Mexico’s Quito embassyTo view this video please enable…

The Indianapolis Speedway is home to the Indy 500, the biggest single-day sporting event in the world. Emotion in the stands here is not unusual, but the noise that came from the bleachers at 3.06pm was something completely different. The nearly 50,000 spectators knew roughly what to expect, aware that at the period of totality the moon would completely obscure the sun, plunging the arena into darkness.But first-time eclipse watchers were overcome by the feeling.Many of them began to cry as the sky suddenly darkened, turning afternoon into night-time in a matter of minutes. Please use Chrome browser for a…

Around midday on April 8, 2024, the sky over parts of North America will suddenly go dark for a few minutes. The reason is a total solar eclipse that will begin over the continent from near Mazaltan, Mexico and go beyond Montreal, Canada, passing through nearly a dozen states in the US. The path along which the total solar eclipse can be seen is approximately 115 miles (about 185 kilometers) wide, according to NASA. For the millions of people in the path of the eclipse, sunshine will be blocked momentarily, causing a momentary dark dusk-like state during the prime of the…

The trial of 27 people connected with thePanama Papers tax evasion scandal began in a Panamanian criminal court on Monday, some eight years after the revelations first emerged. Among the defendants are German-born Jürgen Mossack, and Ramon Fonseca, the co-founders of a Panama-based law firm that was at the center of the document leak in 2016.  Mossack, Fonseca and other former employees of the law firm are facing money laundering charges based on allegations the law firm set up shell companies in tax havens.  Fonseca has previously said the firm, which closed in 2018, had no control over how its clients might use…

“Sexual harassment leaves a mark” — large white placards with this slogan were placed in three German cities behind three bronze statues of nude women with breasts that have become visibly lighter from frequent touching. The action is part of a campaign called “unsilence the violence,” launched by the German women’s rights organization Terre des Femmes. According to the group, two out of three women experience sexual harassment at some point in their lives. “Sexual harassment is a problem that is far too often trivialized or ignored,” Sina Tonk of Terre des Femmes said in a press release. “We must work together to ensure that the…