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By Krisztina Than BUDAPEST (Reuters) – Five Central European EU members will jointly ask the EU on Wednesday to extend a ban on Ukrainian grain imports beyond a Sept. 15 deadline to avoid major market disruptions, Hungary’s farm minister told Reuters. Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia became alternative transit routes for Ukrainian grain to …

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KYIV (Reuters) – Russia intentionally struck grain terminals and port infrastructure in Odesa in its latest air strikes, a senior Ukrainian presidential adviser said on Wednesday. Political adviser Mykhailo Podolyak said on Twitter that the attacks on Ukraine’s main Black Sea port reflected Russia’s attitude towards food security. “The main objective is to destroy the …

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(Reuters) -A fire that broke out at the military training grounds in the Kirovske district on the Crimean Peninsula has forced the evacuation of more than 2,000 people and a closure of nearby highway, the Moscow-backed governor of Crimea said on Wednesday. “It is planned to temporarily evacuate residents of four settlements – this is …

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By Michele Kambas and Stamos Prousalis ATHENS (Reuters) -Wildfires burned for a third day west of the Greek capital Athens on Wednesday, as authorities braced for a new heatwave stoking tinderbox conditions across the country. At first light, air water bombers resumed operations over the towns of Mandra, west of Athens, and Loutraki, close to …

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By Catarina Demony and Andrew Gray (Reuters) -Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva said on Wednesday he will send the European Union a counter-proposal on the long-delayed trade deal with the South American bloc Mercosur in the coming two or three weeks. Lula, who spoke after the two-day EU-CELAC (Community of Latin American and …

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MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia said on Wednesday that unless the United Nations implemented the terms of a memorandum about Russian agricultural exports within three months, Moscow would not restart talks about a deal to allow Ukrainian exports through the Black Sea. “The UN still has three months to achieve concrete results,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria …

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