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Gas Pipeline Explosion Causes Power Outage Across Syria
An explosion hit a major natural gas pipeline near the Syrian capital of Damascus early Monday and triggered power outages across the country, state media reported.
The explosion, which struck the Arab Gas Pipeline that feeds southern areas of the nation, might have been the result of a terrorist attack, state-run Sana reported, citing the oil minister.
The outage is the latest blow to a nation battered by years of civil war and an economy already under sanctions from the European Union. The U.S last month said it would also slap sanctions on President Bashar Al-Assad and others close to him, a move aimed to force his regime to negotiate an end to the war that began in 2011 and has killed hundreds of thousands of Syrians.
Electricity Minister Mohammad Kharboutli said that the explosion occurred between Al-Dhumayr and Adra in the suburbs of Damascus, which led to a power outage in Syria, according to Sana. Natural gas is commonly used as a fuel to run power plants.
The 1,200 kilometer Arab Gas Pipeline delivers the fuel from Egypt to Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. This is the sixth explosion at that part of the pipeline in Damascus, Kharboutli said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-24/gas-pipeline-explosion-causes-power-outage-across-syria-sana
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>>10398120 China pledges 100 years of gold backed currency in a deal to reopen trade negotiation
China July pork imports hit record 430,000 tonnes
China imported 430,000 tonnes of pork in July, customs data showed late on Sunday, up 136% from the same month a year earlier and a record monthly volume, despite tough new checks on cargoes that had slowed clearing at ports. Chinese importers have been bringing in huge volumes of meat this year to fill a large domestic supply shortage after an epidemic of African swine fever killed millions of pigs in China. July imports were even larger than June’s 400,000 tonnes, which had been the highest ever, along with the same amount in April. The huge imports came even after China started testing containers of frozen food for the presence of the novel coronavirus in June, which had slowed the clearing of meat cargoes at ports through July. China has also asked overseas plants to suspend shipments if they experience coronavirus cases among workers. Work at dozens of plants has been temporarily suspended, even though most experts say there is no evidence to show the virus can be transmitted through food. January to July pork imports reached 2.56 million tonnes, up from just over 1 million tonnes a year ago. Imports of pork including offal in July came to 560,000 tonnes, bringing total imports for this year to end-July to 3.38 million tonnes, the data also showed.
Beef imports in July came to 210,000 tonnes, said customs, with shipments for the first seven months reaching 1.2 million tonnes.
https://www.reuters.com/article/china-economy-trade-pork/china-july-pork-imports-hit-record-430000-tonnes-customs-idUSL4N2FM1D6
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SAM466 USAF C-40B on ground at Tel-Aviv, Israel-Ben Gurion Airport
you are forgetting the bill for all of the chinavirus fuckery is going to be handed to them as well.