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The U.K.’s wheat area may be 29 percent smaller than a year earlier after rain prevented farmers from planting winter crops, the National Farmers Union said.
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Bipartisan agreement is so rare in Washington these days that no common ground, however plain, should escape notice: It turns out that both Republicans and Democrats believe that food aid for international emergencies should feed people.
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Vietnam will find it “difficult” to cut interest rates further this year, central bank Deputy Governor Nguyen Dong Tien said, as the nation moves to create an asset company that would clean up bad debt and revive growth.
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The corpse of Indian farmer Bengali Singh burned to ash atop a blazing funeral pyre on the banks of the river Ganges in 2006.
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Vietnam plans to force the sale of non-performing loans to a soon-to-be established asset management company and clear up nearly $5 billion of bad debt, as the government steps up its banking overhaul efforts.
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Storms last month in the U.K. killed at least 43,000 sheep and goats in Northern Ireland, after animals were stranded by snowdrifts at the time in early spring when lambs are typically born.
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Southern Sudan ’s Minister of Cooperatives and Rural Development, Jimmy Lemi Milla, was shot dead today along with his bodyguard by a brother-in-law in Juba, the government said.
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David Myers was at the epicenter of one of the biggest corporate frauds in U.S. history. Now the former WorldCom Inc. controller is rebuilding his life a decade later with the help of the federal government.
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When Eleni Gabre-Madhin climbed onto a cafeteria table as a junior at Cornell University almost 30 years ago and begged students to end the tradition of dinnertime food fights, she was mocked.
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Tanda Srinivas was lounging in the yard of his two-room house in the southern Indian village of Mondrai shortly after noon on Oct. 28 when his wife, Shobha, burst out of the door covered in flames and screaming for help.
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