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Lisa Marie Richardson shares some special time with Lady Diana, who is the mother of four male and five female piglets at Oasis Acres Potbelly Pig Foster Home. Richardson is inviting youth to come visit the pigs, paint flower pots with flowers and enter an art contest during the Easter Piglet Shower from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 3, at 1234 Bird Street.
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Rabie said the figure is based on canal revenue losses, the cost of equipment and machinery, and the manpower hours for the 800 rescuers who freed the ship. We will ask for a fair amount, Rabie said, according to a NBC News translation, without specifying who might be liable to pay. We saved them so much by rescuing the ship without any major damage or losses, he added. The whole ship could ve been lost.
The 200,000 ton mega-container carrier was successfully refloated on Monday, six days after coming stuck sideways in the Suez Canal. The incident sparked a crisis in international shipping, held up $9 billion in global trade a day and left 422 vessels carrying everything from crude oil to cattle waiting to pass.
“I’ll only continue to grocery shop at stores concerned about our community’s health by continuing to require masks until the CDC gives the ‘all-clear.”
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Workers sit on cotton bales being transported to a factory on a truck during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spreading of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, India, May 16, 2020. REUTERS/Amit Dave
(Corrects lead to say cotton and sugar, not cotton and rice)
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan’s cabinet, chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, on Thursday put on hold a decision made by the country’s top economic decision-making body to allow imports of cotton and sugar from neighbouring India, a source told Reuters.
In an effort to cool local demand and prices, Pakistan’s Economic Coordination Committee on Wednesday gave the go-ahead for the imports, which was to have ended nearly two years of trade suspension between the nuclear-armed rivals.
Avoiding fish waste in Lake Tanganyika
With silverfish catch levels decreasing each year, Tanzanian fishing communities are looking for solutions. A factory for fish storage and processing is considered a crucial initiative to avoid waste and improve income.
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