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02.09.25 - 21:36
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Erdogan Slams US For Blocking Palestinian Leaders At UN; Belgium Sanctions Israel (ZeroHedge)
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Erdogan Slams US For Blocking Palestinian Leaders At UN; Belgium Sanctions Israel
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is fuming after the Trump administration blocked Palestinian Authority (PA) leaders from attending the upcoming United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York scheduled for later this month.
PA leader Mahmoud Abbas is not being issued a visa to enter US soil (along with his delegation), as retribution for his leading the charge in support of a Palestinian state, and for waging a 'lawfare campaign' against Prime Minister Netanyahu and other Israeli officials. Erdogan said this only plays into Israel's hands, which is busy conducting "massacres" and "cruelty" in Gaza.
Source: Xinhua
The move "does not fit the United Nations' raison d'etre," Erdogan told reporters on a flight after leaving China, where he attended the SCO Tianjin Summit 2025. "The decision needs to be urgently revised. The United Nations General Assembly exists for...
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29.08.25 - 13:06
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Belgium Tops US As Most ′Calorific′ Country In The World (ZeroHedge)
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Belgium Tops US As Most 'Calorific' Country In The World
Why count calories at the national level?
Average daily food supply is a snapshot of a country's entire food system: crop yields, imports, subsidies, and consumer preferences.
When availability climbs well above the 2,000–2,500 calories (kcal) most adults need, it can foreshadow rising public-health costs such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
Conversely, a lower figure flags lingering food insecurity or supply-chain gaps.
This infographic, via Visual Capitalist's Pallavi Rao, ranks the top 40 countries with the largest food supplies.
Data for this visualization come from Our World in Data. They processed 2022 figures from the UN to track the average daily calories in a country's food output, a measure that factors in imports and local production.
Because the metric captures supply rather than plate-level intake, it also hints at the scale of food lost in retail and households, an often-overlooked environmental co...
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25.08.25 - 17:01
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Belgium Business Confidence Improves In August (AFX)
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BRUSSELS/FRANKFURT/PARIS (dpa-AFX) - Belgium's business confidence rose in August after weakening in the previous month, survey data from the National Bank of Belgium showed Thursday.The business ......
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