Throughout the night and into Friday morning, Israeli enemy reconnaissance aircraft continued to fly over villages in the western and central sectors, extending to the Litani River, amid the release of flare bombs at night over border villages adjacent to the Blue Line.
On Thursday evening, the enemy raided the triangle of towns, Tayr Harfa, Shehin, and Al-Jebein, targeting a mini-market that had been bombed multiple times.
In the midnight hours, the enemy targeted the southern Lebanese town Dhaira three times consecutively, resulting in significant property damage.
After midnight, the Israeli enemy aimed heavy artillery shells at the outskirts of the southern Lebanese towns of Naqoura, Yarin, and Al-Jebein.
Source: National news agency – Lebanon
ROME: The benchmark for world food commodity prices fell further in January, albeit slightly, led by decreases in the prices of cereals and meat, which more than offset an increase in the sugar prices, the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO) reported today.
The FAO Food Price Index, which tracks monthly changes in the international prices of a set of globally-traded food commodities, averaged 118 points in January, down 1 percent from December and 10.4 percent from its corresponding value a year ago.
The FAO Cereal Price Index declined by 2.2 percent from the previous month. Global wheat export prices declined in January driven by strong competition among exporters and the arrival of recently harvested supplies in the Southern Hemisphere countries, while those of maize fell sharply, reflecting improved crop conditions and the start of the harvest in Argentina and larger supplies in the United States of America.
The FAO Meat Price Index declined for the seventh consecutive month by
1.4 percent from December, as abundant supplies from leading exporting countries drove down international prices.
Source: Emirates News Agency