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Police in India shoot tear gas at farmers protesting for better crop prices

Former <keyword id="19904807" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Haryana" source="keywords">Haryana</keyword> Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh <keyword id="20201620" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="hooda" source="keywords">Hooda</keyword> on Tuesday said that <keyword id="19934969" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="farmers" source="keywords">farmers</keyword>' plight, <keyword id="21440881" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Agnipath" source="keywords">Agnipath</keyword>, <keyword id="19916979" type="General" weightage="100" keywordseo="unemployment" source="keywords">unemployment</keyword>, <keyword id="19938433" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="law-and-order" source="keywords">law and order</keyword>, and <keyword id="19895000" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="inflation" source="keywords">inflation</keyword> were key issues which the ruling <keyword id="19894848" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="BJP" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="BJP" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="BJP">BJP</keyword> failed to address. As the <keyword id="19895371" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Congress" source="keywords" meta.keywordsubtype="org" meta.entityname="Congress" meta.hostid="261" meta.entityid="Congress">Congress</keyword> appeared set to wrest five Lok Sabha seats from the ruling BJP in Haryana, Hooda said that he had been saying "there is a wave blowing in favour of the Congress". "You asked me about exit polls predicting most seats to the BJP, to which I said wait for the actual poll results on June 4," the Congress veteran said. Haryana is known for "jai jawan, jai kisan, jai pehalwan". "But what did they (BJP) do. They brought Agniveer (Agnipath scheme), which faced opposition from the youth. They did not redress farmers' issues. And everyone knows the treatment that was meted to our wrestler daughters, who had to protest (at Delhi's Jantar Mantar)," he said. Hooda said that unemployment increased in the state during the BJP rule while the law and order situation also deteriorated. He claimed that the Congress' performance in the <keyword id="19912155" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Lok-Sabha-polls" source="keywords">Lok Sabha polls</keyword> in the state will have an impact on the Vidhan Sabha elections, which are due in October. "This is clear indication that people of Haryana have made up their mind to bring the Congress to power in the Assembly polls," Hooda claimed. Referring to the Lok Sabha polls, Hooda said people have supported the Congress. The Congress leader said that he had been maintaining that BJP will be "wiped out in south, halved in north" "Look at Haryana and Rajasthan...People have given us good support," he added. On the BJP's claims that NDA will win 400 seats this time, Hooda said, "I had been saying that it was a mere slogan. In Haryana too, in the 2019 Assembly polls, the BJP had given slogan of 'Abki baar 75 paar' (claiming to win 75 of the 90 seats). Everyone knows how many seats they later won. (BJP had won 40 seats)." Hooda said that he had maintained that it will be a direct fight between the Congress and BJP in Haryana in the Lok Sabha polls. "I had been repeatedly saying that it is going to be a direct fight between the Congress and BJP. And that has been proved," said Hooda. "The people have rejected the 'vote katu' (vote cutters) outfits," he added referring to the JJP and INLD. Going by the trends available late afternoon, the Congress appeared on course to win Ambala, Hisar, Rohtak, Sirsa and Sonipat seats. The grand old party had contested nine of the ten Lok Sabha seats leaving the Kurukshetra seat to its INDIA bloc ally AAP. AAP's Sushil Gupta, was, however, behind BJP's Naveen Jindal from the seat.

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<ul class="summary-list"><li>European farmers have blocked roads and sprayed government buildings with manure in recent weeks.</li><li>They're rallying against the European Union's "Green Deal" and soaring inflation.</li></ul>Europe's farmers aren't happy — and they're using tractors, tires and manure to show it.In recent weeks they've been taking to the streets over a string of grievances, including the European Union's efforts to go climate-neutral and high inflation that's pushed up their costs.As well as protests in the center of cities such as Paris and Barcelona, farmers have blocked major roads with their tractors and even taken to setting hay bales alight and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240125-en-grab-french-farmers">spraying liquid manure</a> at government buildings to show their displeasure.<div type="image" title="Farmers have captured France's attention by showering government offices with manure and besieging Paris with traffic-snarling barricades of tractors and hay bales." height="5623" width="8435" msid="107556138" hostid="261" sizebytes="2258940"></div><h2>What are the farmers angry about?</h2>The main source of discontent is the <a target="_blank" href="https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/european-green-deal_en">Green Deal</a>, the European Union's initiative to make Europe "climate neutral" by 2050.Russia's invasion of Ukraine almost two years ago fueled double-digit inflation across the continent, with the cost of everything from <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/pope-francis-global-food-crisis-russia-black-sea-grain-deal-2023-7">grain</a> to <a target="_blank" href="https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/commodities/diesel-prices-soar-supply-crisis-gas-station-rationing-inflation-2022-5">diesel</a> soaring.Farmers say their profits aren't high enough to justify investing in sustainable agriculture and say they need more help from the EU, despite it setting aside about $300 billion of aid over the next three years.<div type="image" title="Farmers in Italy protest the EU's agricultural policies." height="5122" width="7682" msid="107556140" hostid="261" sizebytes="1365856"></div>They're also rallying against the EU decision to sign free-trade agreements with other countries, including New Zealand, <a target="_blank" href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2024/02/08/could-the-eus-trade-deal-with-kenya-strengthen-the-african-continental-free-trade-area/">Kenya</a>, and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-29/macron-asks-eu-s-von-der-leyen-to-stop-mercosur-trade-deal">South America's Mercosur group</a>, arguing that those deals will allow overseas farmers to undercut their prices.<h2>How are they protesting?</h2>Protesters across the continent have marched under banners reading "no farmers, no food" to show their opposition to the EU's agricultural policies.Last week, the situation escalated when farmers from Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, and Greece all gathered at the European Parliament in Brussels where they <a target="_blank" href="https://time.com/6632372/farmer-protests-europe-france-germany-brussels/">set bonfires and hurled eggs</a> at EU offices.<div type="image" title="Farmers gather to protest outside the European Parliament in Brussels." height="3335" width="5000" msid="107556144" hostid="261" sizebytes="706576"></div>Over the past few days, further protests have broken out in Barcelona, where tractors have <a target="_blank" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spanish-farmers-blockade-roads-second-day-against-eu-policies-2024-02-07/">clogged up key roads</a>, and Cyprus, where farmers <a target="_blank" href="https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/farmers-rev-up-tractors-in-protest-against-eu-agricultural-policies">took to the streets</a> for the third time in eight months.They've also dumped tires on roads in France to demand government aid worth hundreds of millions of euros.<div type="image" title="Tires dumped on a road in Vesoul, eastern France." height="683" width="1024" msid="107556148" hostid="261" sizebytes="117402"></div><h2>How has the EU responded?</h2>The EU said Wednesday that it would scrap plans to force farmers to halve their pesticide use by 2030 — one contentious element of the Green Deal.It's also tweaked the constraints imposed by a key nature-restoration policy and punted on a requirement to force farmers to leave more of their land fallow.<div type="image" title="Farmers in Strasbourg protest the EU's anti-pesticides proposal." height="4002" width="6000" msid="107556150" hostid="261" sizebytes="572368"></div>But EU president Ursula von der Leyden has doubled down on plans to cut emissions by 90% by 2040, suggesting that she's gearing up for a longer-term fight with the agricultural sector. Politicians have been reluctant to join her in that battle.French president Emmanuel Macron has publicly rebuked the EU deal with Mercosur, likely in a bid to quell protests at home, while right-wing leaders like Hungary's Viktor Orban have stoked tensions in a bid to boost their anti-green and anti-EU credentials."The government stands together with the farmers and not against them," Cyprus' agriculture minister Maria Panayiotou said this week after protests broke out in the capital, Nicosia.Farming subsidies accounted for almost a third of the EU's budget in 1980, but that proportion has now fallen to just under a quarter.

Angry European farmers are blocking freeways with tractors and spraying manure on buildings over green push

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Ahmed Sourani of Gaza came to the UN climate summit to accept a $1 million prize for his nonprofit.</li><li>He said the money will go to emergency food aid and rebuilding small farms when the war ends. </li></ul>DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Ahmed Sourani was physically in Dubai, but his mind was in Gaza.The founder of a nonprofit that promotes local food production and women-owned businesses traveled to this year's UN climate summit to accept a $1 million sustainability prize from the United Arab Emirates.Back home, his wife, children, and grandchildren were in the south of Gaza in shelters, having fled from the northern part of the strip that's <a target="_blank" href="https://sheltercluster.s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/public/docs/SC-PC%20Joint%20advocacy%20note_241123-1.pdf?VersionId=kPEn3lsQx.2lA5.f5YXzNV3vuWmntrxi">largely been reduced to rubble</a> by the Israeli military's bombardments."We are praying all the time for a lasting ceasefire," Sourani, founder and general coordinator of Gaza Urban and Periurban Agriculture Platform, told Business Insider over Zoom. "That's our most important wish."The Israel-Hamas war erupted after the militant group Hamas and other Palestinian fighters attacked Israel on October 7, killing about 1,200 civilians, according to Israeli authorities. Israel has responded with a now two-month-long air and ground campaign that has killed more than 17,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them civilians and many of them children, according to Gazan health officials.<div type="image" title="UN workers gesture as trucks carrying aid arrive at the Palestinian side of the border with Egypt, as the conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas continues, in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, October 21, 2023." height="2496" width="3744" msid="105912529" hostid="261" sizebytes="276328"></div>Israel has pushed into southern Gaza, where millions of residents were previously told to evacuate. Hospitals, refugee camps, and schools have all been hit by bombing, and Gazans are in desperate need of food, water, and shelter, humanitarian groups say."Nowhere is safe in Gaza," United Nations Secretary General <a target="_blank" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WW1HFaHcl0c">Antonio Guterres said</a>. He <a target="_blank" href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/12/1144447">invoked a rarely used power, known as Article 99</a>, to call on the 15-member UN Security Council to vote for a ceasefire. But the US for the third time blocked the resolution on Friday, the sole veto. The UK abstained and 13 other countries voted in favor.Even before the war, the majority of Gazans struggled to find food on a daily basis and relied on aid distributed by the UN, Sourani said. Most farming in the densely populated strip is done on small plots in urban areas or just outside the cities.Israel has maintained tight control over the territory through a land, air, and sea blockade since 2007, after Hamas was elected to power, while Egypt controls the southern border. Israel provides half of the Gaza Strip's electricity and there are restrictions on the movement of people and goods.<h2>Food insecurity is a constant problem in Gaza</h2>Sourani said the food insecurity crisis is why he founded the Gaza Urban and Periurban Agriculture Platform six years ago. The nonprofit has helped expand access to local food and boost incomes for family farmers, particularly women.Before the war, there were about 3,000 micro-agricultural businesses led by women, such as crop and animal production and food processing, Sourani said. The nonprofit works on developing more markets in grocery stores and malls, securing quality control certificates for their products, and providing opportunities for women to network and speak with policymakers."We need to help women restore their enterprises and the thousands of families who are in need of food, especially those who are displaced in the shelters," Sourani said.He estimated that at least 50% of those enterprises have been completely or partially destroyed during the war, with hundreds of millions of dollars lost.Sourani said it was a difficult decision to leave Gaza to accept the Zayed Sustainability Prize, but he had the support of his family and help from the UAE and its humanitarian arm, the Emirates Red Crescent, to get to Dubai.He felt it was important to share the mission of the Gaza Urban and Periurban Agriculture Platform and be a voice for Palestine at the UN summit attended by more than 100,000 world leaders, foreign diplomats, corporate executives, reporters, and activists.Palestine can speak at UN meetings, but <a target="_blank" href="https://www.un.org/unispal/history/">has non-member observer status</a> and therefore can't vote on resolutions — including on the war in Gaza.<h2>Protests spill into the UN summit in Dubai</h2>The war has at times spilled into the UN climate summit, known as COP28, including during the first days as world leaders arrived to give speeches. The Iranian delegation left Dubai in <a target="_blank" href="https://www.irna.ir/news/85308217/%D9%87%DB%8C%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%AC%D9%85%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%DB%8C-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C-%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86-%D9%85%D8%AD%D9%84-%DA%A9%D9%86%D9%81%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3-%D8%AA%D8%BA%DB%8C%DB%8C%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%82%D9%84%DB%8C%D9%85%DB%8C-%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D8%AA%D8%B1%DA%A9-%DA%A9%D8%B1%D8%AF">protest of Israel's presence</a>. On Saturday, hundreds of climate activists, many wearing the black and white checkered keffiyeh and holding up watermelon signs that are both symbols of Palestinians, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/climate-activists-join-palestinian-cause-during-rare-protest-in-dubai-2023-12">marched through Expo City</a> where the summit is being hosted. They called for a ceasefire and an end to Israel's occupation of Palestine.<div type="image" title="Protesters march at the UN climate summit in Dubai." height="3024" width="4032" msid="105912530" hostid="261" sizebytes="887804"></div>"We cannot talk about climate change in isolation from the humanitarian tragedies unfolding around us," Jordanian King Abdullah II said during his speech at the start of COP28. "The massive destruction of war makes the environmental threats of water scarcity and food insecurity even more severe."Palestinians have little say over land and water resources, Sourani said, which is why climate justice is so important.He said the prize money awarded to the Gaza Urban and Periurban Agriculture Platform will be used for emergency response to help distribute food aid to the 1.9 million Gazans – or 85% of the population – <a target="_blank" href="https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/unrwa-situation-report-47-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-jerusalem-information-valid-6-december-2023-2230-local-time-day-61-hostilities-published-8-december-2023-enar#:~:text=Since%207%20October%2C%20up%20to,again%20in%20search%20of%20safety.">who've been displaced by the war</a> and to help women restore their businesses when the war is over."The world is thirsty for real and just peace," Sourani said.

As hunger worsens in Gaza, one man wants to help local farmers feed families

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Two protesters hurled soup at Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa in the Louvre Museum, Paris.</li><li>Bullet-proof glass protects the world-famous image. No damage has been reported.</li></ul>Two protesters hurled soup at the world-famous Mona Lisa painting in the Louvre Museum in Paris on Sunday. <a target="_blank" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2024/01/28/mona-lisa-attack-soup-climate-protesters-louvre-paris/">Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece was left covered in what appeared to be tomato soup</a> while the protesters made a speech about sustainable agriculture and the food supply chain.The priceless artwork is protected behind a glass panel and the museum has not reported any damage so far.Videos on social media show the activists wearing T-shirts with the words "Food Counterattack" written on them in French. "What's the most important thing?" they shouted. "Art, or right to a healthy and sustainable food?" They added: "Our farming system is sick. Our farmers are dying at work."<a target="_blank" href="https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/french-farmers-maintain-protests-despite-government-concessions-2024-01-27/">French farmers have been protesting and threatening roadblocks around Paris</a> this month, demanding better pay and living conditions, Reuters reported.The 16th-century Italian Renaissance painting, one of the world's most recognizable artworks, holds the <a target="_blank" href="https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/highest-insurance-valuation-for-a-painting">Guinness World Record for the highest-known painting insurance valuation in history</a>.It was valued at $100 million in 1962, equivalent to about $1 billion in 2023.The <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-creator-mona-lisa-stolen-louvre-museum-2023-paris-2023-1?r=US&amp;IR=T">Mona Lisa</a> has been the target of a number of protests and acts of vandalism over the years and has been <a target="_blank" href="https://harpersbazaar.com.au/mona-lisa-vandalism-incidents/">protected by bulletproof glass since the 1950s</a> after one person threw acid at it.In 2009, a "disgruntled Russian woman" who had been denied French citizenship also threw a ceramic mug at the painting, per Harper's Bazaar. The mug shattered after hitting the safety glass.In 2022, a <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mona-lisa-pastry-cream-man-in-disguise-louvre-2022-5?r=US&amp;IR=T">man disguised as an elderly woman smeared a pastry on the safety glass</a> after failing to smash it.He threw rose petals around before being escorted out by security.On his way out, he told fellow museumgoers, "There are people who are destroying the Earth. Think about it. All the artists tell you think about the Earth, all artists think about the Earth, that's why I did this. Think about the planet."In 2022, anti-oil protesters targeted the UK's National Gallery, <a target="_blank" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/activists-throw-tomato-soup-van-gogh-painting-climate-protest-2022-10?r=US&amp;IR=T">throwing a can of tomato soup onto one of Van Gogh's "Sunflowers" paintings.</a>

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