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Nyeri, May 31 (EFE/EPA).- Kenya's tea industry is recovering from COVID-19 pandemic.Kenya’s tea export for 2020 rose by 4 percent to 518 million kilograms, up from 496 million kilograms recorded in 2019, despite the pandemic, according to Kenya’s Ministry of Agriculture. Earnings from tea export stood at at 120 billion shillings (about 1.11 billion USD), also slightly improved, against 1.08 billion USD in 2019. Kenya is the world's largest exporter of black tea. (Camera: DANIEL IRUNGU). SHOT LIST: KENYAN PEOPLE PICK TEA LEAVES FROM A TEA PLANTATION BEFORE TAKING THEM TO A TEA COLLECTION CENTER WHERE THEREAFTER THEY ARE TAKEN TO THE IRIANI TEA FACTORY TO BE PROCESSED, IN NYERI, KENYA.
Pakistan rejects India's claim that it killed many militants in an air strike. Pakistan officials have said that Indian warplanes did breach its airspace and drop a payload over Balakot in the country's northwest, but said there was no damage or casualties. SOUNDBITE
Kenyan tea growers say taxes and high costs of labour are hurting earnings and discouraging production expansion. Grace Pascoe reports.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a surprise stopover in Pakistan to meet his counterpart, Nawaz Sharif, in the first such high-level meeting between the nuclear-armed rival nations in over a decade. Mana Rabiee reports.
The head of the International Energy Agency urges the United States and China to put aside their 'tensions' and align on climate change, warning in an interview that geopolitical fractures risked holding back the clean energy transition. Speaking at the African Climate Summit in Nairobi, Fatih Birol told AFP that these international rifts, partly stoked by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, are “becoming more and more pronounced”. SOUNDBITE
At least nine people were killed Saturday after a train coach parked in southern India caught fire when a passenger tried to make tea, officials said. The coach, which had been detached from a train, was stationed at the Madurai railway yard in the southern state of Tamil Nadu when the fire broke out before dawn. Local media reports said the passengers had illegally smuggled aboard a gas cylinder which exploded when they tried to use it. IMAGES
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