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Russian President Vladimir Putin continues his war on Ukraine. Russia is now blockading Ukraine’s Black Sea ports, which prevents upwards of 25 million tons of grain and other agricultural goods from delivery to international markets. Left unchecked, this will likely create a food crisis due to severe shortages in parts of the Middle East . . .
“Committed reckoning with history is a necessary stop on the road to healing and reconciliation,” Tonya Matthews, who was named as the museum’s president and CEO last week, said in a news release. Plans for the museum were first publicly announced by the former Mayor of Charleston, Joseph P. Riley, Jr., in 2000. “Our journey […]
Italy’s Prime Minister Mario Draghi meets with U.S. President Joe Biden in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington, U.S., May 10, 2022. REUTERS/Leah Millis Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register ROME, May 26 (Reuters) – Italy aims to free grain exports blocked in Black Sea ports, Prime Minister Mario […]
More than 44 million people in 38 countries facing a hunger crisis have been prevented from receiving lifesaving shipments of Ukrainian grain by a Russian naval blockade, and now they’ve become a bargaining chip in an unprovoked war that’s contributed to food insecurity worldwide. Russia is now pushing for the lifting of some international sanctions […]
Ears of wheat are seen in a field near the village of Zhovtneve, Ukraine, July 14, 2016. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko/File Photo/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register CHERNIHIV, Ukraine, May 26 (Reuters) – Ukraine is desperately trying to export its vast stores of grain by road, river and rail to help avert […]
A dockyard worker watches as barley grain is mechanically poured into a 40,000 ton ship at a Ukrainian agricultural exporter’s shipment terminal in the southern Ukrainian city of Nikolaev July 9, 2013. REUTERS/Vincent Mundy/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register UNITED NATIONS, May 25 (Reuters) – A senior U.N. official is […]
New York CNN Business — David Beasley, head of the United Nations World Food Programme, is pleading with Russian President Vladimir Putin to reopen Ukraine’s Black Sea ports before global calamity strikes.
CNN has identified the vessel as the bulk carrier Matros Pozynich. On April 27, the ship weighed anchor off the coast of Crimea, and turned off its transponder. The next day it was seen at the port of Sevastopol, the main port in Crimea, according to photographs and satellite images. The Matros Pozynich is one […]
According to the UN World Food Programme WFP, if Ukrainian Black Sea ports are not restored soon, people all over the world would starve. “We have to open up these ports so that food can move in and out of Ukraine. The world demands it because hundreds of millions of people globally depend on these […]
The cost of insuring merchant ships sailing to ports in the Black Sea has spiraled out of control, becoming a huge potential impediment to the movement of Russian cargoes from the region. Underwriters are charging as much as 10% of the value of a ship’s hull — basically the vessel’s worth as an asset — […]