Sun, 5 May 2024 HISTORY OF COFFEE: Coffee Beans are the Second Most Traded Raw Material Across the Globe coffee’s beginnings are enveloped in mystery and lore | Coffee beans are now the second most traded raw material worldwide, after crude oil, with sales over $55 billion a year. Legend has it that one day, many hundreds of years ago in the Ethiopian highlands, Kaldi’... | Russia Is Pounding Eastern Ukraine’s Industrial Heartland In the coming weeks, Vladimir Putin will be throwing all he’s got against a stretch of high ground between the Russian occupied town of Bahkmut and the city of Kramatorsk to gain complete control of Ukraine’s Donbass region and score a decisive, if limited, ... | China publicizes for the first time what it claims is a 2016 agreement with Philippines TAIPEI, Taiwan — For the first time, China has publicized what it claims is an unwritten 2016 agreement with the Philippines over access to South China Sea islands. | The move threatens to further raise tensions in the disputed waterway, through which much of the worl... | Princess Anne lays wreath at B.C. veteran’s cemetery; receives 21-gun salute ESQUIMALT, B.C. — Princess Anne spent more than an hour Saturday touring God’s Acre veteran’s cemetery and its tiny, wooden chapel, laying a wreath to honour the more than 2,500 military personnel and family members buried there.Advertisement 2 | Story continues b... | Indonesia volcano eruption spreads ash to Malaysia and shuts airports Eruptions at a remote Indonesian volcano have forced more than half a dozen airports to close with ash spreading as far as Malaysia, according to officials, while authorities rushed to evacuate thousands due to tsunami fears. | Mount Ruang erupted three times on Tuesday... | Princess Anne takes part in keys-to-the-ship ceremony for Arctic navy vessel in B.C. VANCOUVER - The first Arctic patrol vessel for Canada's Pacific fleet has officially been commissioned in a ceremony featuring Princess Anne, the sister of King Charles. | She attended the event Friday in North Vancouver in her role as commodore-in-chief for the Can... | Sailor, one of 35 injured in hovercraft collision off coast of Florida transported to Virginia hospital (Tribune News Service) — A Norfolk-based sailor injured in a hovercraft collision off Florida coast earlier this week was transported to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth to continue treatment closer to home, according to the Navy. | The incident happened Wednesday duri... | This Week In History Home News This Week In History | NewsTop Stories This Week In History | May 4, 2024 | Facebook | Twitter | Pinterest | WhatsApp | Linkedin | ReddIt | Email | Print | A total of 33 German sailors were plucked from the water and taken to Fort Bragg and confined as prisone... | IRGC’s indigenous Shahid Mahdavi warship ventures into Southern Hemisphere TEHRAN – The Shahid Mahdavi, an Iranian warship equipped with both long-range ballistic and cruise missiles, has achieved a significant maritime milestone by crossing the Equator during its latest mission, officially entering the southern hemisphere. ... | | |
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