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ByTheEast: What are the short and medium-term threats to countries in North Africa and in the Middle East, regarding their fertilizer supply and food security? Dr. Frédéric Schenider: In the coming two to three months, the most acute pressure is on fertiliser availability and prices for the spring and early summer planting seasons. Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Jordan, and Iraq all rely to varying degrees on Gulf-sourced urea and phosphate fertilisers,...

A lot of good progress [to rach an agreement with Iran] is being made, but we're just going to keep on working at it, and eventually we'll either hit a deal or we won't. We're in a pretty good spot here – but there's an option B, and the option B is that we could restart the military campaign."

JD Vance

U.S. Vice President
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