Food Security

The White House recommends 77 Chinese and more than 1,600 U.S. lines; Commerce on Monday puts around 90 percent of a $30bn package at MFN.

USDA said it reopened the Douglas, Arizona port to cattle imports from Mexico on 24 August under a joint science-based protocol. Santa Teresa and Columbus remain closed. APHIS will pause openings if risk rises in Sonora or Chihuahua.

Reclamation set a ten-year operating framework for Lakes Powell and Mead, with wider modeled limits and roughly two-year decisions. The first binding rules remain unfinished before the new water year.

SAF and allied forces claim gains along the northern route to El Obeid. The offensive may alter the siege geometry, but public reporting still shows no commercial truck, aid convoy or sustained military logistics movement using the road.

Sudan once supplied 70–80% of the world’s crude gum arabic. A UN warning now shifts the burden toward the brands, traders, auditors and insurers that depend on it.

Parliament dissolved Yuliia Svyrydenko’s cabinet as Serhiy Koretskyi emerged, still unappointed, as the likely successor. At sea, cheap Ukrainian drones are forcing Russia to reroute shipping and absorb a new cost along its grain artery.

The UN's rights chief issued a rare public red alert as the RSF massed around North Kordofan's capital, drones hit schools and displacement sites, and cholera took hold under the siege. Half a million remain inside the ring, and the EU and UN's aid chief have both stepped in.

The RSF has ringed North Kordofan's capital and pounded it with ten straight days of drone strikes; the UN warns of a coming catastrophe and calls El Obeid the likely next El Fasher. Whoever holds the city holds the gate between Darfur and central Sudan.

Investigators found the RSF's El Fasher atrocities bear the markers of genocide, and in a 6 July resolution passed without a vote the Human Rights Council opened an urgent inquiry into El Obeid, a city the RSF has now encircled. The wager is that naming a crime in advance can raise its cost.

Drone strikes by both warring parties have intensified around Sudan's North Kordofan capital as Rapid Support Forces expand their perimeter. No source has confirmed an RSF ground assault on the city, but UN and WFP officials say the interval to prevent mass displacement is narrowing fast.

A late-June heatwave broke June temperature marks from Spain to Switzerland, left hundreds dead including an estimated 212 in Spain over four days, and loaded hospitals, farms, power systems and outdoor labour with concurrent strain. WMO ties the pattern to Europe's fastest-in-the-world warming and a roughly 80% El Niño probability this summer.

North Kordofan's capital faces sustained air attack and a tightening RSF ring; the Security Council has flagged imminent atrocity risk, yet no verified urban ground assault has been confirmed.

RSF forces are massing around North Kordofan’s capital as drone attacks raise the civilian toll. Officials warn that the prevention window remains open, but protective action still trails the alarm.

Aid groups, the UN and European governments are pressing for action while Sudan’s North Kordofan capital is still under encirclement and bombardment, with no confirmed RSF ground entry inside the city.

Odesa’s terminals are the visible target. The quieter strike lands on Ukraine’s export cash flow, repair queue, freight bill and winter power ledger.