World News: 27 June 2022

Qatar to host indirect Iran-U.S. talks on reviving 2015 nuclear deal-media
Iran’s indirect talks with the US on reviving the 2015 nuclear pact will resume soon, the Iranian foreign minister said on Saturday amid a push by the EU’s top diplomat to break a months-long impasse.

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France wants Iran, Venezuela return to oil markets
These moves include a possible price cap on Russian oil exports to reduce Moscow's revenues while limiting damage to other economies.

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Heatwave and fires damaging Tunisia's grain harvest
Loss of grain production comes as the North African country struggles with food importation costs driven higher by the war in Ukraine.

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Drug use high in West and Central Africa, trafficking funds conflict: U.N.
Opioid and cannabis abuse are above global averages in West and Central Africa, while cocaine trafficking through the region is financing militant violence in the Sahel, the United Nations said in a report on Monday.

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Japan braces for power crunch as heat mounts after rains end
Weather officials said the end of the annual rainy season across much of Japan, including the Tokyo metropolitan area, had come at its earliest since the data began to be kept in 1951.

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Climate change protesters arrested at Sydney 'mobilisation to resist climate destruction'
Blockade Australia began its threatened protests "to cause disruption to the political and economic systems of Australia which are driving climate destruction", with a group converging about 8am at Hyde Park.

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