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Tom Harley’s Dragoman hurriedly updates Foreign Influence register Save Share It sounded more than a little strange when last month (as reported by The Australian), French defence contractor Naval Group “engaged Dragoman consultants … to develop a strategy to better work with Australian suppliers and repair its damaged image in Australia”. Naval Group is, of course, facing the escalating prospect of losing its $90 billion contract to build 12 submarines for the Royal Austra...

March 01, 2021 - 8:28 AM COPENHAGEN - The Norwegian Nobel Committee said Monday that there are 329 candidates — 234 individuals and 95 organizations — that were nominated for the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize by the Feb. 1 deadline. The Oslo-based organization said that it was the third highest number of candidates ever, adding the current record of 376 candidates was reached in 2016. A vast group of people — heads of state or politicians serving at a national level, uni...

This week, local seafood will be distributed and prepared across the North Coast, kicking off a four-month program to increase local access to seafood while providing economic support to local fishermen. DNATL Community Food Council received Fishermen COVID Relief funds from Catch Together, a program of Multiplier, to develop the North Coast Fresh from the Sea Program, a multifaceted approach to address food insecurity and act as a catalyst to establish viable local markets for fishermen. Worki...

Washington, D.C. – Bread for the World welcomed the House of Representatives’ passage of the American Res

Violence in eastern Congo ‘out of control’, bishop says Feb 27, 2021 senior correspondent Father Donatien Nshole, general secretary of the Congolese Episcopalian National Conference (CENCO), speaks at a briefing in Kinshasa, Thursday Jan. 10, 2019. (Credit: Jerome Delay/AP.) Several prominent officials in the Congolese Bishops’ Conference have voiced sadness over an incident earlier this week that left Italy’s ambassador to the country and two others dead, stressing the need to do more ...

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Open Table receives $108K grant Community Content Open Table, the Concord and Maynard charity that works to fight hunger and build healthy communities, received a Massachusetts Food Infrastructure Grant for $108,492. The funds will be used to expand Open Table’s Mobile Meals Program, which provides meals to food-insecure families in the Metrowest area. Prepared by volunteers in Open Table’s industrial kitchen in Maynard, the prepared meals are available for pickup at the Maynard drive-thru ...

Feeding America’s 2018 “Map the Meal Gap” study estimates food insecurity in DeWitt and Piatt counties at approximately 8 percent. University of Illinois Extension serving DeWitt, Macon, and Piatt counties invites social service agencies, food pantries, and individuals interested in serving their communities to Tackling Hunger, a virtual networking meeting. Agenda   Growing Community Gardens, Illinois Extension Horticulture   Using Policy, Systems, and Environmental Change (PSE) in ...

Italy on Wednesday pressed the United Nations for answers about the attack on a U.N. food aid convoy in Congo that left a young ambassador and his paramilitary police bodyguard dead. Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told lawmakers in Rome that Italy has asked both the U.N. and the U.N. World Food Program to open…

ROME (AP) — Italy on Wednesday pressed the United Nations for answers about the attack on a U.N. food aid convoy in Congo that left a young ambassador and his paramilitary police bodyguard dead. Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio told lawmakers in Rome that Italy has asked both the U.N. and the U.N. World Food Program to open an investigation into the security arrangements for convoy, which was attacked two days earlier. The minister said Italy also will spare no effort to determine the truth b...