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Jaishankar also noted the 1,100 tons of relief material, along with medicine and other necessary equipment, sent to India's southern neighbour in the cyclone's immediate aftermath.
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We have tons of people moving from the Bay Area and Los Angeles, partly for that reason.
Doha is expanding from roughly 77 million tons a year of LNG export capacity to more than 110 million tons before the end of the decade, with potential plans to grow to 142 million tons.
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It now runs 200 flights monthly between China and Europe, hauling over 8,000 tons of mostly e-commerce packages bound for Europe, with Temu as one of its biggest customers.
The villages present a paradox: they enable reuse of some of the 1.8 million tons of plastic waste Vietnam produces each year, and allow employees to earn much-needed wages.
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