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World News | Europe Faces Record-breaking Wildfires as Climate Change Worsens 2025 Season
Brussels [Belgium], August 29 (ANI): Europe is witnessing a record-breaking wildfire season in 2025, with experts attributing the intensity to climate change, Euro News reported. Higher temperatures and lower rainfall are aggravating forest fires...

EU Proposes Removal Of Tariffs On US Industrial Goods To Accelerate Lower Duties On Car Exports
The European Commission on Thursday proposed the removal of tariffs on U.S. industrial goods imported into Europe in a bid to accelerate the reduction of duties on cars exported from the EU to the United States. According to a statement posted by...

EU Proposes Removing Tariffs on US Goods After Trump Demand
The European Union said it’s following through on a demand by President Donald Trump and is putting forward proposals to remove all tariffs on US industrial goods, give preferential treatment to some US agricultural and seafood products and...

EU proposes 'preferential' access to US goods; Tesla sales plunge
Ata mārie and welcome to your Friday recap of international business and political news. First up, the European Union proposed to remove trade tariffs on US industrial goods to ensure lower automotive tariffs for vehicles manufactured in the EU,...

EU begins plan to scrap tariffs on U.S. industrial goods
The European Commission on Thursday set in motion plans to eliminate duties on U.S. industrial products, opening the EU’s procedure for a trans-Atlantic trade arrangement that would also backdate reductions in U.S. levies on European cars. In a...

Redefining the Cocoa Trade and Nigerian Agriculture
With a new regime for Cocoa trade in Nigeria and other part of the world, Olasunkanmi Owoyemi, a young entrepreneur, appears to be changing the game through his Sunbeth’s agribusiness institution. RaheemAkingbolu reports. Long before the...
Farmers join forces to train future UK farm vets
VetPartners Farm Academy pairs students with working farms Farmers have been joining forces with VetPartners to help tackle a critical shortage of farm vets in the UK by welcoming veterinary students onto working farms, according to a recent press...

EU deforestation rules open trade doors for Morocco
Morocco is set to gain a trade edge in Europe as the European Union rolls out strict anti-deforestation rules later this year, with the North African country classified as “low risk” under the new regulation. The law, which takes effect in...
EU looks to scrap tariffs on US industrial goods as part of a wider trade deal
The European Commission on Thursday proposed removing tariffs on U.S. industrial goods as part of a trade deal that would also reduce American duties on European cars, Reuters reports. The proposal is the EU’s first step in enacting the framework...

Italy: Dig for (Rare Earths) Victory
The European Union (EU) got an alarming reminder about its fragile standing in great power competition when, in a recent speech, former Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi reiterated a hard truth: dependence on strategic resources is incompatible...

Invenergy Proposes Third SD Wind Farm Amidst DC War Against Clean Energy
Published 2025-08-28 by Cory Allen Heidelberger Chicago-based multinational Invenergy has built or is building over 210 energy projects, mostly in the U.S. but some in Mexico, Scotland, Poland, Spain, Uruguay, and Japan. Invenergy built the...

Ancient DNA shows what really spread the farming revolution
Farming spread across prehistoric Europe mostly because farming communities moved, not because local hunter-gatherers copied their ways. Cultural adoption played only a minimal role in the Neolithic transition, the period when agriculture took...

Britain is OUR home first & foremost – PM’s first duty of care is to us NOT the rest of the world
THE British people have a long history of opening their arms and their wallets to those suffering from tyranny, war or disease in far-flung countries around the globe. We have a strong track record of donations to disaster relief funds and for...

King Felipe and Queen Letizia continue visits to areas hit by wildfires in Spain
King Felipe and Queen Letizia have continued their visits to communities hit by wildfires across Spain. They are undertaking three days of trips to the regions most impacted by the blazes. They are spending time with firefighters and emergency...

FARM CLASSICS: SiteMaster was king of the construction site
‘JCB’ has become a universal term for any form of yellow digging machine from a tracked excavator to a wheel loader. The term JCB is actually an acronym for the company’s founder, Joseph Cyril Bamford. A man with a fascinating life story, leaving...

EU plans to cut US industrial tariffs to protect its carmakers
On Thursday, the European Commission put forward new legislation aimed at removing tariffs on U.S. industrial goods, a step expected to pave the way for Washington to lower its tariffs on European automobiles. Putting forward the legislation is a...

Wind farm waste is an all too familiar problem in modern Britain
Wind farms sometimes have to be paid to turn off when there is no grid capacity for the electricity they produce DANNY LAWSON/PA It has been well over a year since Labour pledged to slash energy bills by £300 by the end of the decade. This...

France sees sharp drop in lumpy skin disease outbreaks in livestock
PARIS (Reuters) -France has reported a sharp decline in outbreaks of an illness in cows called lumpy skin disease, with no new cases since August 22, after launching a mass vaccination campaign around the outbreaks, the agriculture ministry said...

Four Oaks HortWeek plants import/export panel looms as EU minister reveals timeline for SPS agreement
Join our panel of industry experts: Matthew Appleby HortWeek (chair), with Craig Francis of Cargo Logistics, Malcolm Catlin of Plant Healthy and Sally Cullimore (HTA). EU minister Nick Thomas-Symonds spoke on 27 August about how the deal could...

European Union to remove tariffs on U.S. industrial goods, triggering cuts for EU autos
Rows of Volkswagen ID Buzz electric buses are parked at the National City Marine Terminal, a major port for vehicle imports and exports to the U.S. Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty Images The European Union formally proposed Thursday to...