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Farm Bureau: Re-instated July Cattle Inventory Shows Continued Herd Contraction
Tri State Livestock News - South Dakota
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August 1, 2025
Reinstated after its 2024 cancellation, USDA’s July Cattle Inventory report offers a critical midyear snapshot of the U.S. cattle herd, including an estimate of the year’s calf crop. Released alongside the monthly Cattle on Feed report, the two...
Plastic bottles reveal the companies behind a Pacific litter crisis
Earth.com
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Plastic bottles and caps clutter beaches up and down Latin America’s Pacific coast. Most of them aren’t foreign – they’re local. And the bottles can often be traced back to three big names in the beverage industry: The Coca-Cola Company, Aje...
Elon Musk and Claudia Sheinbaum’s $4.5 Billion Panama Canal Rival in Mexico That Could make Interesting Changes
Newsroom Panama
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July 31, 2025
The Panama Canal has long been the backbone of global shipping, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. For over a century, this incredible waterway has saved ships thousands of nautical miles, revolutionizing international trade and commerce....
ASX 200 falls as US finalises tariffs set to begin next week
The Motley Fool Australia
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August 1, 2025
The S&P/ASX 200 Index (ASX: XJO) is trading 0.76% lower on Friday after the US finalised its list of global reciprocal tariffs overnight. The United States issued an Executive Order overnight detailing revised reciprocal tariffs for scores of...
Full list: Donald Trump announces US tariffs on India, other trading partners
Hindustan Times
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August 1, 2025
US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order introducing new tariffs on a broad range of its trading partners, including India, set to come into effect on August 7. The executive order was issued shortly after 7 pm on Thursday...
Background Briefing: July 31, 2025
Background Briefing
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July 31, 2025
50% Tariffs Slapped on Brazil To Force Lula To Drop Charges Against Trump’s Fellow Fascist Bolsonaro We begin with Trump’s tariff war against Brazil with a deadline of August 1 for President Lula to surrender or face the bullying of a 50% tariff...
Find it out, write it down, get it out there.
Meduza
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Derk Sauer, who died in Amsterdam on Thursday at the age of 72, was a figure of rare consequence in the history of post-Soviet journalism. A former reporter and editor in the Netherlands, he departed for the Soviet Union in the late 1980s and went...
Trump Tariff Shake-Up: Full country-wise list with revised rates
Financial Express
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The White House has released the revised tariff rates on imports from 68 countries and the 27-member European Union, with these new tariffs scheduled to come into effect on August 7, 2025. This gives US customs and border officials time to prepare...
Donald Trump unveils new US tariffs for every country, full list here
DNA India
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Imports from some countries, like Brazil, are facing additional tariffs that stack on top of the reciprocal tariffs listed below. On Thursday, US President Donald Trump issued an executive order imposing new tariffs that will take effect on August...
Trump's tariff blitz targets dozens of countries. Which are the worst hit?
India Today
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August 1, 2025
US President Donald Trump imposed reciprocal tariffs ranging from 10% to 41% on imports from dozens of countries, with Syria, Laos and Myanmar bearing the maximum brunt. As announced earlier, imports from India will now be taxed at 25%, while its...
SBU Drones Strike Russian War Plant Making ‘Brains’ for Putin’s Army
Kyiv Post
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July 31, 2025
Long-range drones operated by Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) struck Radiozavod, a key facility in Penza, Russia, that is part of the Rostec state corporation and supports the Russian military-industrial complex, a source in the SBU told Kyiv...
Largest mass delegalization event in U.S. history
OnCuba News
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July 31, 2025
On May 13, 2024, Eduardo, his wife María del Carmen, and their small daughter arrived in the United States from Havana thanks to the Humanitarian Parole Program (HPP) implemented by President Joe Biden. After going through the required paperwork,...
Pilgrim’s overstaffed in Q2 to prepare for visa revocations
WATT Poultry - Illinois
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July 31, 2025
Pilgrim’s Pride CEO Fabio Sandri said that the company intentionally overstaffed its plants during the previous quarter to help it mitigate the potential deportation of workers. During the Pilgrim’s Pride second quarter earnings call on July 31,...
‘America needs fireworks’: No alternative for some Chinese goods amid trade uncertainty
The Straits Times
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July 26, 2025
LIUYANG/YIWU - Fourth of July celebrations in the US may have just passed, but Chinese businessman Marx Wu is already prepared for a dampening effect of tariffs on sales of his fireworks to American customers for the festivities in 2026. This is...
Nicaraguan Dictatorship Orders More Classroom Surveillance
Havana Times
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July 23, 2025
Alison Lolof, Vice President of the National Union of Nicaraguan Students (UNEN). Photo: 100% Noticias The Nicaraguan Student Union (UNEN), a repressive arm of the dictatorship, tries to justify the surveillance of their fellow students. By 100%...
Donald Trump signs executive order imposing reciprocal tariffs up to 41% on imports
DNA India
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August 1, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump announced on Thursday new tariffs of up to 41% on goods imported from dozens of countries With less than 100 days until the presidential election, US President Donald Trump drastically changed the country's trading...
In the struggle against US imperialism, Nicaragua is a model of sovereignty
Geopolitical Economy
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July 25, 2025
The United States has militarily intervened in practically every country in Latin America. The CIA has backed dozens of coups d’etat against democratically elected left-wing governments in Latin America, in an attempt to impose US imperial...
Capitol Beat: Welch seeks exempt businesses from tariffs
Rutland Herald - Vermont
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This week, U.S. Sen. Peter Welch, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, pushed for legislation that would exempt United States-owned small businesses from tariffs imposed on Canada. Welch led Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, of New...
Nicaragua registered economic growth in May
Prensa Latina - Cuba
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July 22, 2025
According to the financial institution, the accumulated variation for the January-May period was 2,9%, and the average annual growth was 2,4%. In the seasonally adjusted IMAE series, growth of 0,4% was observed compared to the previous month and...
The Strength of Peace: Nicaragua Celebrates its 46th Anniversary of July 19, 1979
Dissident Voice
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July 25, 2025
This year was different from celebrations since 2021 when there were perhaps 5,000 people invited – this year there were about 50,000! It took place in the Plaza de la Fe where the July 19th celebrations were held for years and years with open...