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<title>Wheat climbs on seasonal gains</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180263092</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 22:54 GMT</pubDate>
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...  trader said, noting that demand from north African buyers had increased recently. European grains futures  ...  current price levels. Dealers said the feed industry would aim to increase the use of  ...  taxes, that had sparked off months of farmer protests. Soy for August delivery was down  ...
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<title>Muslim charity organizes mass wedding for 27 couples in Jordan</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180262198</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 22:37 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of Sudan staged a public relations campaign. Egypt is relying on an ambitious agricultural project to reinvigorate national food production. The  ...  been abandoned by their country. The South African president continues to support his long-time associate,  ...
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<title>Hope of deal in world trade talks</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180261266</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 22:35 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Lamy, calls for cutting limits of European farm subsidies by 80% and US payments by  ...  proposal also involves cuts in tariffs on agricultural imports and on industrial goods. However, it  ...  think the Doha round would be doomed. African nations called on the seven trading powers  ...
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<title>Bush orders expanded U.S. sanctions on Zimbabwe</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180260832</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 22:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  freeze assets under U.S. jurisdiction of 17 business enterprises controlled by the Zimbabwean government. The  ...  business with the enterprises, which included the Agricultural Development Bank of Zimbabwe and producers of  ...  after Mugabe&apos;s government disregarded calls from the African Union, the United Nations and the Southern  ...
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<title>Obituaries for July 25</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180260702</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 22:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  Delmar Scott McInturff - Troy Elizabeth F. Morocco -Troy Kathleen T. Schendier - Barrington, IL  ...  Connie worked for 36 years at Miller&apos;s Livestock in Argyle where she weighed and tagged  ...  working with and visiting with the local farmers. Horses have been an important part of  ...
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<title>Cracking down on speculators and hedgers = lower gas prices</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180250875</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 22:14 GMT</pubDate>
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...  struggling to meet rising gas bills, every farmer filling up his tractor, every trucker buying  ...  of camelina makes a nutritious feed for livestock. Camelina truly is a win-win solution for  ...  national security to countries like Russia, Venezuela, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. That would be a  ...
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<title>Nigeria: Several Killed in Fuel Tanker Explosion</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180250540</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 22:13 GMT</pubDate>
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...  the news while addressing the press in company of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State  ...  Access Roads. While the 16 suspended tank farms failed to meet the minimum conditions and  ...
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<title>America Must Continue to Stand for Freedom, Bush Says</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180250214</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 22:13 GMT</pubDate>
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...  of conscience worldwide, including Ayman Nour of Egypt, Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma, Oscar  ...  25 percent of future food aid from farmers in the developing world, cutting shipping costs  ...  opportunities. &quot;This would help build up local agriculture; it will help break the cycle of  ...
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<title>Sylvania Resources, Shanta Gold, MobilityOne</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180249940</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 22:13 GMT</pubDate>
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...  to JUne rise 54% to R86.6m (South African rand). PGM production rose 30% to 6,264oz.  ...  delays to some of its projects and business expansion. The discontinuation of all the self-service  ...  Nautical Petroleum has entered into a third farm out agreement with Canamens Energy for an  ...
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<title>Food and energy security: Cassava to the rescue</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180249548</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 22:12 GMT</pubDate>
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...  in research and development needed to boost farmers yields and explore promising industrial uses of  ...  food price inflation. Widely grown in tropical Africa, Asia and Latin America, cassava is the  ...  little or no access to improved varieties, fertilizer and other production inputs, by small scale  ...
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<title>Turning politics upside down</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180248969</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 22:11 GMT</pubDate>
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...  alliance that will threaten the Congress among farmers and under classes that have traditionally been  ...  behind Indonesia and ahead of Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nigeria and Russia.) Mayawati became the first low-caste  ...  is also accused of dumbing down the business of politics. She has little time for  ...
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<title>Full text of speech</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180248967</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 22:11 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and the doors of democracy were opened. Markets opened too, and the spread of information  ...  in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya. Poorly secured nuclear  ...  war criminals to justice; and in South Africa, where the struggle of a courageous people  ...
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<title>Bush expands sanctions against Zimbabwe</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180248382</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 22:10 GMT</pubDate>
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...  regime&apos;s continued &quot;politically motivated violence&quot; and the African leader&apos;s decision to disregard calls from the  ...  is involved in investment in the mining industry and plans government mining projects. &amp;mdash;Zimbabwe Iron  ...  Steel Co., the nation&apos;s largest steel works. &amp;mdash;Agricultural Development Bank of Zimbabwe, a commercial bank  ...
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<title>Bush orders expanded sanctions on Zimbabwe</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180248284</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 22:10 GMT</pubDate>
<description>
...  freeze assets under U.S. jurisdiction of 17 business enterprises controlled by the Zimbabwean government. The  ...  business with the enterprises, which included the Agricultural Development Bank of Zimbabwe and producers of  ...  after Mugabe&apos;s government disregarded calls from the African Union, the United Nations and the Southern  ...
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<title>Text of Obama&apos;s Berlin Speech</title>
<link>http://www.einnews.com/news.php?wid=180240144</link>
<pubDate>25 Jul 2008 21:34 GMT</pubDate>
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...  and the doors of democracy were opened. Markets opened too, and the spread of information  ...  in the Atlantic, and bringing drought to farms from Kansas to Kenya. Poorly secured nuclear  ...  war criminals to justice; and in South Africa, where the struggle of a courageous people  ...
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