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European Commission President to visit flood-hit Polish area on Thursday

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen will visit flood-hit areas in Poland on Thursday at the invitation of Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the commission said on Wednesday. Von der Leyen will “visit the risk area in Wrocław to assess the situation caused by the recent heavy flooding and rainfall in Poland,” a spokeswoman

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Rising rivers threaten southern Poland as floods ease elsewhere in Central Europe

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Soldiers and volunteers in southwestern Poland laid sandbags near swollen rivers in the Wroclaw region on Wednesday, trying to protect homes and businesses after days of flooding in Central Europe. Several countries in Central Europe have been hit by serious flooding, including Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Romania as a

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GOTS AI project for organic cotton detection found successful

Representation of Gujarat in the CoCuRA software with identification of biological fields. Credit: GOTS. Describing the software’s use, GOTS said that once the algorithm was trained, it was applied to India’s vast agricultural areas, which cover 2.7 million square kilometers: “Within seconds, CoCuRA detected all organic and conventional cotton fields with remarkable accuracy. A project

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Donors to Germany’s rebellious populist party deny ties to Russia

A German couple who donated more than €5 million ($5.6 million) to the rebel populist Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) have denied speculation that the funds could have ties to Russia. The anti-immigration BSW has shaken up German politics this year, becoming the driving force in coalition negotiations in two eastern states after winning more than

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Ten killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, Palestinians say

At least eight people, including children, were killed and others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a former school building in Gaza, the Palestinian Civil Defense said on Wednesday. According to the Israeli military, the air force attacked a command center of the militant organization Hamas in the former school. According to the military, Hamas

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Ukrainian boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk released after ‘misunderstanding’ led to arrest in Poland

Undisputed heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk was released after being detained by police at Krakow airport in Poland, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday. Zelensky said he spoke with Usyk on Tuesday and was “disappointed by this attitude towards our citizen and champion.” “I have instructed the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Andrii

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German court dismisses AfD lawsuits over Bundestag committee chairs

Germany’s Constitutional Court on Wednesday dismissed a complaint by the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, which alleged the party’s exclusion from parliamentary committees. The ruling concerns two lawsuits brought by the party’s parliamentary group, which holds 77 of the 733 seats in the Bundestag, Germany’s lower house. Judge Doris König, deputy president of the

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Analysis – Brazil’s bungling to meet budget target threatens to undermine credibility

By Marcela Ayres and Bernardo Caram BRASILIA (Reuters) – As Brazil struggles to meet its year-end budget target, the government is getting increasingly creative in how it accounts for spending, tax breaks and new revenues, raising concerns among experts about the credibility of the new fiscal regime. While most private economists argue that President Luiz

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