World cereal production set to jump 8 percent this year
The outlook for global cereal supply in the 2013/14 marketing season remains generally favourable despite downward adjustments to forecasts for world cereal production and closing stocks, according to the latest issue of FAO's quarterly Crop Prospects and Food Situation report.
Kerry meets Sudan counterpart on South Sudan, Darfur
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Peres: Israel will consider joining chemical weapons ban treaty
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Detention Centers Prep for Safer Transgender Housing
Regulatory reform is expected to gradually improve housing safety for transgender detainees. At the same time the Department of Homeland Security is cutting beds and exploring programs that move at-risk people out of locked-in facilities and into houses and hotels.
Sudanese protest again against Bashir in Khartoum
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Islamists, ruling party members chide Sudan's Bashir amid protests
First sign of dissent inside ruling circles after a week of unrest that has killed dozens
Sudan police fire teargas as thousands demand Bashir quit
Bashir, who seized power in a 1989 coup, has not faced the sort of Arab Spring uprising that unseated autocratic rulers from Tunisia to Yemen since 2011, but anger has risen over corruption and rising inflation in the vast African country
More than 3,000 protesters on Khartoum streets demand Bashir quit
Bashir, who seized power in a 1989 coup, has not faced the sort of Arab Spring uprising that unseated autocratic rulers from Tunisia to Yemen since 2011, but anger has risen over corruption and rising inflation in the vast African country