Bloomberg Ministers from the Group-of-Seven nations agreed to promote agricultural innovation and investment as farmers face the twin challenges of an aging workforce and extreme weather at a time when global food demand is increasing. “Motivated, skilled and enterprising farmers are essential for the growth of the agricultural sector,” the ministers said in a joint statement after two days …

  Vienna / AFP Austria’s anti-immigration far-right triumphed on Sunday in the first round of presidential elections, dealing a wake-up call to Vienna’s cosy political establishment two years before the next scheduled general election. Norbert Hofer of the Freedom Party (FPOe) won 36.7% of the vote, projections showed, with candidates from the two governing parties failing to even make it …

  Aleppo / AFP Rebel and regime bombardment in Syria’s Aleppo on Sunday killed at least 14 civilians, emergency workers and a monitor said, on the third day of renewed violence in the battered city. Rebel rocket fire on government-held parts of the northern city killed six civilians, including a woman and two children, said the Syrian Observatory for Human …