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Total cereal production in 2010 should be close to the average from the last five years. While the yield per hectare will be 5% above average, overall cultivated areas have decreased.
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The new World Bank Group Managing Director Sri Mulyani Indrawati and Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean Pamela Cox will visit Haiti this week to review progress made in the country after the earthquake, and meet with Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive and other high-level officials.
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According to the unaudited data, AB Bank SNORAS profit prior to provisions and tax exemption within the first half of this year comprised LTL 51 million, the bank formed almost LTL 48 million provisions.
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Rare baby leopards, born this spring at Paris' main zoo, are presented for public viewing for the first time.
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A new ban on bullfighting in Catalonia, Spain, sets the future of bullfighting schools in the region at risk.
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An amateur artist from St. Petersburg, Russia, offers paintings which she creates with her breasts.
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President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė sent congratulations on behalf of herself and the people of Lithuania to the President of Macedonia, Gjorge Ivanov, on Macedonia's national holiday, the Day of the Republic.
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From 3 – 6 August, Port Vila, the capital of Vanuatu, will host the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF).
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In response to the worsening food crisis affecting the Sahel and Sudan, Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, Kristalina Georgieva announced today that the Commission has proposed an additional €40 million in humanitarian funding to be drawn from the EU budget's Emergency Aid Reserve.
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Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill holds a mass asking to pray for rain as wildfires continue to cause havoc across the country.
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A tribal community in India's northeastern state of Assam is manufacturing tea coins, an innovative and eco-friendly alternative for tea bags.
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A 45 U.S. dollar garage sale purchase turns out to be long lost Ansel Adams negatives worth 200 million dollars.
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A woman in India says she has to sell her 6-month-old baby in order to pay her husband's medical expenses.
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Massive rabbit Ralph tips the scales at over 42 pounds and costs his owner more than 30 U.S. dollars a week to feed.
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Survivors from devastating flood in Pakistan are seeking shelter in refugee camps as foreign aid begins to arrive in the country.
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The European Commission today approved two applications from Denmark for assistance from the EU Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF).
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A Turkish toddler survives a three-floor fall from a balcony when he lands on a stack of plastic pipes.
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A tourist coach plunges into the River Seine in Paris.
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Summer is the season for cultural festivals. With a bumper harvest of cultural events out there, what better time of year to head off and sample the exceptional places and world-class artists that Europe has to offer?
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President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė sent congratulations on behalf of herself and the people of Lithuania to the President of the Swiss Confederation, Doris Leuthard, on the Swiss National Day.
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