World News: 16 April 2023

Poland, Hungary ban grain and food imports from Ukraine
Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) party leader, Jarosław Kaczyński, said that the Polish countryside is facing a “moment of crisis,” and that while Poland supports Ukraine, it was forced to act to protect its farmers.
Kyiv's ministry of agrarian policy has deplored the decision as "drastic and unilateral", arguing that Ukrainian farmers were "facing the most difficult situation” given Russia's invasion.

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Over and out: Germany switches off its last nuclear plants
The shutdown of Emsland, Neckarwestheim II and Isar II shortly before midnight was cheered earlier in the day by anti-nuclear campaigners outside the three reactors and at rallies in Berlin and Munich. Inside the plants, staff held more somber ceremonies to mark the occasion.
Decades of anti-nuclear protests in Germany, stoked by disasters at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima, had put pressure on successive governments to end the use of a technology that critics argue is unsafe and unsustainable.

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Fighting continues in Sudan as death toll climbs
Impossible as it is to know which force is holding what. The RSF announced that it had taken the airport in a few hours on Saturday, but the army denied this. The RSF also claimed to be holding the presidential palace. The army denied this and said it was holding the headquarters of its general staff, one of the main power complexes in Khartoum.

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Saudi prince gives 4% Aramco stake to public investment firm
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's decision, announced by the state-run Saudi Press Agency, sends the stake to the Saudi Arabian Investment Co., known as Sanabil Investments. Sanabil is under the sovereign wealth fund known as the Public Investment Fund.

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Major prisoner swap raises hopes for Yemen
The release and swap of nearly 900 detainees by the two sides in Yemen’s conflict has begun, a significant confidence-building measure as peace talks between Saudi envoys and Houthi rebels intensify.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), which is managing the prisoner exchange, said on Friday its planes would be used to carry the released detainees between six cities in Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

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Researchers in the US are turning dead birds into hi-tech drones
Scientists in New Mexico are working to turn taxidermic birds into drones to study flight patterns. For now, the bird drone prototype can fly for a maximum of 20 minutes, scientists told Reuters. The research has no relation to the Gen Z conspiracy that "Birds Aren't Real," a project lead told Insider.

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