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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday his country expected a record-high grain harvest in 2022 as Moscow blames Western sanctions over Ukraine for preventing its exports, especially to poor countries.  "The preliminary estimate (for 2022) already stands at 150 million tonnes, including around 100 million tonnes of wheat. This will be a record in the history of Russia," Putin said in televised meeting on agriculture.  According to Putin, "138.7 million tonnes of grain have already been harvested".  Russia has for several weeks accused Western countries of hindering its exports of agricultural products, insisting the situation creates a risk for global food security.  "The delivery of our grain and our fertiliser abroad unfortunately remains... difficult," Putin said.  "Sanctions against Russia risk leading to a further deterioration of the situation, to a global food crisis," he added. -- AFP

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A fundamentally flawed study claiming that scientific evidence of a climate crisis is lacking should be withdrawn from the peer-reviewed journal in which it was published, top climate scientists have told AFP. Appearing earlier this year in The European Physical Journal Plus, published by Springer Nature journal, the study purports to review data on possible changes in the frequency or intensity of rainfall, cyclones, tornadoes, droughts and other extreme weather events. It has been viewed thousands of times on social media and cited by some mainstream media, such as Sky News Australia. "On the basis of observation data, the climate crisis that, according to many sources, we are experiencing today, in not evident," reads the summary of the 20-page study. Four prominent climate scientists contacted by AFP all said the study -- of which they had been unaware -- grossly manipulates data, cherry picking some facts and ignoring others that would contradict their discredited assertions.  -- AFP

8 hours ago

Dozens of people take part in a rare protest in the southern Chinese tech hub of Shenzhen, social media footage shows, after officials announced a snap lockdown over a handful of COVID-19 cases. The megacity of more than 18 million people reported just 10 infections on Tuesday, but officials have still ordered residents in three districts to stay home as China sticks to its strict zero-Covid policy. Officials are also under pressure to snuff out outbreaks quickly ahead of a key political meeting in Beijing next month. — AFP

10 hours ago

Thousands of Japanese people wait to offer flowers and prayers for slain former premier Shinzo Abe, even as others march nearby in protest. The decision to hold a state funeral for the assassinated ex-leader split public opinion, and the rival scenes in Tokyo laid bare the divisions. Foreign dignitaries joined Japanese officials for the ceremony inside the Budokan. Outside the storied venue, businessmen, retirees and teenagers waited in the late September sunshine, some of them dusted by cooling mist jets. — AFP

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The Commission of Human Rights announces Tuesday the appointment of lawyer Beda Angeles Epres as a new commissioner of the body. Epres is set to serve a seven-year term—from 2022 until 2029.

12 hours ago

Exiled to Latvia since the invasion of Ukraine, Russian free media have made it their mission to provide independent information to millions of their compatriots subjected to Kremlin propaganda. "Those who control the information, they control the situation," said Tikhon Dzyadko, editor-in-chief of independent Russian TV channel Dozhd, now headquartered in Riga.  He said the channel's goal was to make it possible for people to access "real information about what is happening and not this propaganda spread by Russian TV stations." Moscow tries to block what it considers dissident news sites online and has restricted access to top social media sites. Fortunately "it's possible to get information from Russia through the internet, social media. The digital Iron Curtain is not strong enough," he told AFP..

13 hours ago

US Vice President Kamala Harris will visit the heavily fortified Demilitarized Zone on a trip to South Korea later this week, the White House says. Harris, who is currently in Tokyo to attend the state funeral of assassinated former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, will go to the DMZ on Thursday, a White House official says. The move is likely to spark an angry reaction from North Korea, which denounced US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi as the "worst destroyer of international peace" when she visited the DMZ in August. — AFP

15 hours ago

A police official says they have confiscated P680,000 worth of shabu from a dealer who fell in a sting Monday in nearby Datu Odin Sinsuat, Maguindanao. Brig. Gen. John Guyguyon, director of the Police Regional Office-Bangsamoro Autonomous Region, says Tuesday they are to prosecute the suspect, Amilodin Guima Akmad, for violation of the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002. Akmad fell in an entrapment operation in the town proper of Datu Odin Sinsuat, some 40 kilometers south of this city. — The STAR/John Unson

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Apple will manufacture its new flagship smartphone in India, the US tech giant says, as it seeks to diversify production away from a dependence on China. The iPhone supply chain is based mainly in China but the country's zero-Covid policies and tensions with the United States have hurt production, analysts say. "We're excited to be manufacturing iPhone 14 in India," Apple says in a brief statement.

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