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      Bloomberg: Top wheat exporter Russia targeting corn as crop rises to record
      May22

      Bloomberg: Top wheat exporter Russia targeting corn as crop rises to record

      After overtaking the U.S. as the world`s largest wheat exporter, Russia is becoming a bigger part of the corn market with expectations for a record crop, according to Bloomberg.Russian farmers will boost production to 13.7 million metric tons in the season starting in October, an all-time high, according to Moscow-based consultant SovEcon. While...

      Reuters: Kyrgyzstan seeks to bring in Chinese factories
      May22

      Reuters: Kyrgyzstan seeks to bring in Chinese factories

      Kyrgyzstan is in talks with its giant neighbor China about relocating dozens of Chinese plants and factories to the Central Asian nation, foreign minister Erlan Abdyldayev said on Sunday, according to Reuters.China is a major supplier of consumer and industrial goods to the ex-Soviet Central Asia and an importer of local commodities such oil, gas...

      Avdiyivka under heavy artillery fire at night, civilian wounded, 1 WIA, 1 KIA
      May22

      Avdiyivka under heavy artillery fire at night, civilian wounded, 1 WIA, 1 KIA

      Russian proxies severely attacked the residential area of the town of Avdiyivka in Donetsk region at night, having wounded one civilian, one Ukrainian soldier and killed another soldier; they then turned their weapons to shell the militant-controlled city of Donetsk as an act of provocation, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist...

      BBC: Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour killed, Afghans confirm
      May22

      BBC: Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour killed, Afghans confirm

      Afghanistan`s spy agency has confirmed that Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been killed, after the U.S. targeted him in a drone strike, according to the BBC.The drone targeted his vehicle in a remote area of south-west Pakistan, near the Afghan border, on Saturday, the BBC wrote.U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Mansour had posed...

      Parties to Donbas conflict cannot agree on number of armed police mission
      May22

      Parties to Donbas conflict cannot agree on number of armed police mission

      Participants in negotiations on the settlement of the Donbas crisis have been in dispute over the number of a future police contingent to be deployed in eastern Ukraine to ensure security during local elections in occupied areas in Donbas, according to zn.ua.The minimum possible number begins with 1,500 men, though Kyiv considers it unacceptably...

      EgyptAir MS804: Debris photos released
      May21

      EgyptAir MS804: Debris photos released

      The Egyptian military has released the first images of debris from doomed EgyptAir flight MS804, as the French aviation safety agency confirmed media reports of smoke in the cabin before the plane crashed into the Mediterranean, killing all 66 people on board, according to Australia`s ABC.The Wall Street Journal, citing people familiar with the...

      6 Ukraine troops wounded in past 24 hrs in ATO zone
      May21

      6 Ukraine troops wounded in past 24 hrs in ATO zone

      No Ukrainian soldiers were killed May 20 in the zone of the Anti-Terrorist Operation in the Ukrainian Donbas but six were wounded in the shelling, according to presidential administration spokesman for ATO Andriy Lysenko, an UNIAN correspondent reported from the official`s Kyiv briefing.”Over the past day, no Ukrainian soldiers were killed in...

      Lukashenko goes on 1st EU trip since sanctions lifted
      May21

      Lukashenko goes on 1st EU trip since sanctions lifted

      Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has visited Italy during his first European trip since the EU sanctions have been lifted, according to Ukraine Today.The Belarusian leader has met with his Italian counterpart Sergio Mattarella to discuss trade, economic and investment bilateral cooperation.On May 21, Lukashenko is expected to have a...

      Poroshenko calls on Germany to speed up consideration of deployment of armed police mission in Donbas
      May21

      Poroshenko calls on Germany to speed up consideration of deployment of armed police mission in Donbas

      Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko addressed Germany, as the OSCE Chair, to accelerate consideration of a proposal to deploy an international armed police mission in Donbas, the president`s press service reported on the results of a telephone conversation between President Poroshenko, Germany`s Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of...

      U.S. to not lift Crimea sanctions unless peninsula de-occupied – U.S. official
      May21

      U.S. to not lift Crimea sanctions unless peninsula de-occupied – U.S. official

      The U.S. sanctions against Russian-occupied Crimea will remain in place until the peninsula is de-occupied, said Daniel Fried, U.S. Coordinator for Sanctions Policy, in his interview to Ukrainian media outlet Dzerkalo Tyzhnya, Ukraine Today reports.”The U.S. has already imposed separate sanctions against Crimea,” Fried stated. ”[…] The...