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Раскрыт план #госпереворот-а в #Азербайджан-е: Москва сдала Мехтиева – YouTube youtube.com/watch?v=k9C9sAkS…— Michael Novakhov (@mikenov) Nov 10, 2025
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Kazakhstan has reported a record harvest for 2025, collecting over 27 million tons of grain and 4.5 million tons of oilseeds for the first time, according to Deputy Minister of Agriculture Azat Sultanov.
The Ministry of Agriculture said the grain harvest reached 27.1 million tons in initial weight, including 20.3 million tons of wheat, an increase of 0.5 million tons compared to last year, despite a reduction in wheat acreage by nearly 900,000 hectares. Of the soft wheat delivered to elevators, 53% was graded 1-3, slightly lower than the 56% recorded in 2024. Class 4 wheat accounted for 35%, up from 28% a year earlier.
“More than half of this volume has a gluten content above 20%, which allows this wheat to be used for food purposes,” Sultanov noted.
Around 12% of the harvest consisted of unclassified wheat, which will be used for animal feed and fodder production, sectors where demand is growing, particularly in neighboring countries.
For the first time, the volume of legumes reached one million tons, while a new record was set for oilseeds at 4.5 million tons, with harvesting still underway in several regions. The country also produced 2.9 million tons of potatoes, 3.8 million tons of vegetables, and 2.6 million tons of melons and gourds. Harvesting of oilseeds, grain corn, and sugar beets is nearing completion.
“The agricultural season that has just ended showed steady growth in production. For the second year in a row, Kazakhstan has demonstrated positive dynamics thanks to the use of modern technologies and crop diversification. The harvest took place at the optimal time, and no serious problems arose,” Sultanov emphasized.
Between September and October, Kazakhstan exported 2.2 million tons of grain from the new harvest, 21% more than in the same period last year. During the previous marketing season (September 2024 to August 2025), exports totalled 13.4 million tons, a 47% year-on-year increase. Sultanov confirmed the government’s intention to maintain the current export potential.
“In 2024, some experts doubted that it would be possible to reach 12 million tons, but in fact, the plan was exceeded. This year, Kazakhstan is developing new export destinations, deliveries have begun to Belgium, Portugal, Poland, Norway, Vietnam, the UAE, Morocco, Algeria, and Egypt, while exports to Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia have resumed. Demand for Kazakh grain remains stable, with export potential estimated at 13 million tons,” Sultanov said.
The Times of Central Asia previously reported that President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has set a target of increasing Kazakhstan’s grain exports to China to 2 million tons annually.
Ryan Gryzbowski, Ian Tuttle for BI
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It’s the diagnosis no one wants to hear: You have cancer.
The disease has become an unfortunate reality in so many of our lives. But an even more troubling trend is cancer’s prevalence among young people.
While there’s no “good” time to get a cancer diagnosis, it can be particularly devastating to receive it as a younger person.
That’s partially due to the financial burden that comes with it. One 2021 report found that a young cancer diagnosis will cost a person roughly $250,000 over their lifetime.
Business Insider spent a year trying to understand the true cost of cancer for young people. You can read the first story in the package here. BI’s Hilary Brueck spoke to cancer survivors about how they navigated their cancer diagnoses.
In the days to come, we’ll have more coverage on the financial, emotional, and systemic costs that come with these young cancer patients.
That includes stories on twins whose lives diverged when one got colon cancer at age 21, how work can often be a lifeline for young cancer patients, and navigating starting a family while dealing with a deadly disease. We’ll also have some exclusive data analysis with the help of GoodRx on the out-of-pocket costs for a young cancer patient in their first year.
As dark a topic as this is, there could be a silver lining.
The tidal wave of AI is approaching the shores of the healthcare industry.
OpenAI is exploring building its own consumer health applications, according to sources close to the company, BI’s Rebecca Torrence reports.
To be clear, OpenAI’s plans aren’t specifically focused on cancer. Instead, it’s weighing several opportunities in the space, such as creating a personal health assistant or a health data aggregator, according to Rebecca’s reporting.
A big piece of that could be consolidating consumers’ health data in one place. (The scattered and siloed nature of health records is what has tripped up tech companies before.)
But if OpenAI (or another Big Tech player) is successful in leveraging AI in healthcare, it could go a long way toward helping people recognize and address problems sooner.

President Donald Trump has suggested that the majority of Americans could receive $2,000 in dividends, claiming that the U.S. is bringing in “trillions of dollars” due to an influx of tariff revenue.
“People that are against tariffs are fools. We are now the richest, most respected country in the world. We are taking in trillions of dollars and will soon begin paying down our enormous debt… Record Investment in the USA, plants and factories going up all over the place,” claimed Trump via Truth Social. “A dividend of at least $2000 a person (not including high-income people) will be paid to everyone.”
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This isn’t the first time Trump has floated the idea of paying some kind of stimulus check or tax rebate to the majority of Americans as a direct result of the money raised from tariffs. But thus far, the promise has yet to be enacted by his Administration.
Here’s what you need to know about the idea put forward by Trump, why experts have challenged the suggestion, and where things currently stand with the legal battle over the aforementioned tariffs.
What exactly is Trump proposing and where would the dividend come from?
Trump is proposing a $2,000 payment for Americans, except “high-income” people. (The President failed to specify who would qualify as “high-income” by his estimation.)
The dividend would come from the funds gained via Trump’s global tariffs, which have been a source of revenue and controversy since he initially announced the various levies during his self-titled “Liberation Day” earlier this year.
The President said that the tariff revenue would also soon begin paying off the national debt, which is listed as over $38 trillion.
During an appearance on ABC’s This Week on Sunday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that he is yet to speak with Trump about his latest promise to supply most Americans with these funds.
“The $2,000 dividend could come in lots of forms… It could be just the tax decreases that we are seeing on the President’s agenda. No tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, deductibility of auto loans,” said Bessent, listing possible ways in which the $2,000 payment could come to fruition.
When has Trump previously floated this idea?
The possibility of most Americans receiving some kind of payment from tariff revenue has previously been floated by Trump.
On July 25, when talking to reporters outside the White House, Trump said: “We have so much money coming in [from tariffs], we’re thinking about a little rebate… a little rebate for people of a certain income level might be nice.”
Just over a week later, the President spoke again about the possibility of a rebate for Americans from tariff earnings.
“There could be a distribution or dividend to the people of our country. I would say for people that would be middle-income people and lower-income people, we could do a dividend,” he said.
In an interview on Oct. 1 with One America News, Trump again said that tariff revenue would be used to pay off national debt, but could also go towards a dividend.
“We also might make a distribution to the people,” said Trump, floating that the figure would be between $1,000-$2,000.
What challenges could Trump encounter, according to experts?
An immediate issue that arises with the potential total of the dividend is how much it would actually cost. Should the payment be made to Americans from low and middle-income households, this would include over 80% of the total U.S. population, per a Pew Research study from last year, or over 274 million people.
Erica York, Vice President of the non-partisan think tank Tax Foundation, has warned about the lack of funds, should such a payments be implemented.
“The President just proposed a $2,000 tariff ‘dividend’ for each person, excluding high-income earners,” she remarked via social media. “If the cutoff is $100,000, 150M adults would qualify, for a cost near $300 billion. If kids qualify, that grows. Only problem, new tariffs have raised $120 billion so far.”
“The math gets worse accounting for the full budgetary impact of tariffs: a dollar of tariff revenue offsets about 24 cents of income and payroll tax revenue,” York continued, adding “adjusting for that, tariffs have raised $90 billion of net revenues compared to Trump’s proposed $300 billion rebate.”
Read More: The Chaotic, Fantastical World of Donald Trump’s Tariffs
What is the current status of Trump’s tariffs battle?
Trump’s tariffs are currently being reviewed by the Supreme Court in a high-stakes case, of which he has been vocal in his disapproval.
The court heard oral arguments last week, and a number of justices expressed concern about how the White House justified Trump’s import duties.
