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            <title><![CDATA[Baker Hughes Nears $13.6 Billion Deal for Chart, FT Reports]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oil Steadies as Traders Weigh Trump’s Threat of Russia Penalties]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oil Steadies at Start of Week as Market Weighs Trump’s Tariffs]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cyclone Zelia Strengthens Off Australia’s Major Iron Ore Hub]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Olam Confirms Offer From Saudi Arabia for Agribusiness Unit]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2024 04:26:09 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Super Typhoon Strikes Southern China Leaving at Least Two Dead]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2024 22:56:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hong Kong Warns of Flight Disruptions as Super Typhoon Nears]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 23:09:13 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Unseasonal Winter Heat Across Australia Raises Wildfire Risks]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2024 06:00:28 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oil Climbs as Equities Rally and Traders Eye Iran Retaliation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2024 23:29:19 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tropical Storm Alberto Strengthens as System Approaches Mexico]]></title>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oil Holds Biggest Weekly Gain Since April Ahead of China Data]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 23:29:01 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oil Falls After OPEC+ Signals Plan to Return Barrels to Market]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2024 22:10:44 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oil Trades Near $86 as Report Points to Rising US Inventories]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2024 23:15:34 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>The Shell Quest Carbon Capture and Storage facility near Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, on Monday, July 20, 2023. To hit its net zero targets, the world is relying on a controversial technology pioneered by the fossil fuel industry.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Australian Iron Ore Port Starts Clearing Ships Ahead of Cyclone]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:48:06 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Australia’s Sugar Growers Brace for Output Losses After Floods]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 09 Jan 2024 01:31:55 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Crops Get Cheaper on Argentine Currency Plunge]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Dec 2023 01:36:27 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Pork Prices Extend Plunge in Bad Deflationary Omen for Chinese Economy]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Dec 2023 03:28:53 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Pork for sale at a wholesale market in Beijing, China, on Thursday, Jan, 12, 2023. The jump in Covid infections across China is hurting the country’s massive meatpacking industry, adding to signs of growing disruption from Beijing’s sudden dismantling of virus restrictions.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Australia’s Top Sugar Producing State Braces for Cyclone]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 07 Dec 2023 08:03:41 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Sugar cane is harvested on a farm in Bundaberg, Queensland, Australia, on Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009. The 86 percent surge in sugar prices this year will encourage farmers worldwide to increase plantings, potentially leading to a large surplus in two years, said Martin Todd, managing director of LMC International Ltd.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rice on Cusp of Fresh 15-Year High in Asia After Sharp Rebound]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 06:22:11 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A farmer fills up a pick-up truck with paddy rice harvested in a farm land in Kalasin province, Thailand, on Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. Thailand’s government approved 56 billion baht in aid measures to support rice farmers for the 2023-2024 harvest season.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[China’s Rice Exports to Ivory Coast Top 2022 After India Curbs]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2023 06:25:20 GMT</pubDate>
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