NEW YORK, Aug. 2 -- The United Nations issued the following news release on Aug. 1, 2022: * * * The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The Secretary-General warmly welcomes the departure of the M/V Razoni, the first commercial ship leaving Ukraine's port of Odesa since 26 February. The ship is bound for the port of Tripoli, Lebanon, carrying a cargo of 26,527 tons of corn, and is the first vessel to depart under the Black Sea Grain  more

WASHINGTON, July 30 (TNSrep) -- The Congressional Research Service issued the following In Focus white paper on Libya and U.S. policy (No. IF11556) on July 29, 2022, by Middle Eastern affairs specialist Christopher M. Blanchard. Here are excerpts: * * * Eleven years after a 2011 uprising that toppled long-time authoritarian leader Muammar al Qadhafi, Libya has yet to make a transition to stable governing arrangements. Elections and diplomacy have produced a series of interim governments (Figu  more

LONDON, England, Aug. 3 -- The European Union's European Bank for Reconstruction and Development issued the following news on Aug. 2, 2022: The EBRD is enhancing food production and security in Romania and beyond by approving Euros20 million to Agricover Credit IFN, a non-bank agricultural lender, to on-lend to farmers for their investment or working capital financing needs. The loan is part of the EBRD's Euros2 billion Resilience and Livelihoods Framework helping countries and companies affect  more

ODESSA, Ukraine, Aug. 3 (TNStalk) -- The International Rescue Committee issued the following statement on Aug. 1, 2022: * * * The International Rescue Committee (IRC) welcomes news that the first grain shipment since February left Ukraine's Black Sea Port today after a deal reached last week set the parameters for freeing regular exports of up to 20 tons of wheat awaiting export. This shipment is the first step in providing relief to a growing global hunger crisis - one that is significantly w  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- The Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, a journal that says it deals with chemistry and biochemistry of agriculture and food from the American Chemical Society, published research articles, including the following topics, in its Aug. 3, 2022 edition: Reviews: * Advances in Metabolic Engineering Paving the Way for the Efficient Biosynthesis of Terpenes in Yeasts Agricultural and Environmental Chemistry: * Protoporphyrin IX-Chitosan Oligosaccharide Conjugate wit  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, Aug. 3 (TNSpol)(TNScapv) -- The National Grain and Feed Association issued the following news release on Aug. 2, 2022, and a July 26, 2022, letter: The National Grain and Feed Association (NGFA) commended House Transportation and Infrastructure Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee Chairman Donald Payne Jr., D-N.J., today for introducing a bill to reauthorize the federal Surface Transportation Board (STB) and help address insufficient, unreliable freigh  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 -- Rep. Peter A. DeFazio, D-Oregon, chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, issued the following news release on Aug. 3, 2022: The Freight Rail Shipping Fair Market Act, introduced earlier today by Chair of the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Donald M. Payne, Jr. (D-NJ), Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chair of the House Committee on Agriculture David Scott (D-GA),  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 (TNStalk) -- The U.S. Agency for International Development issued the following transcript of an interview on Aug. 4, 2022, by Administrator Samantha Power with Nick Schifrin of PBS NewsHour: * * * NICK SCHIFRIN: The U.S. says 40 million people have become hungry since Russia invaded Ukraine. The war is combined with COVID, rising food prices, and the worst drought in a hundred years in East Africa. A Senegalese minister recently warned more people could die from the food cr  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- The White House issued the following transcript of a news briefing on Aug. 1, 2022, by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby: * * * MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Good afternoon, everybody. All right. I see -- oh, my goodness -- some waving happening. And welcome back. I see some folks are back. All right. And Happy Monday, everyone. So, joining me today is NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications, Joh  more