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Farm machinery through the lens

  DPA Joern and Tammo Glaeser are out on a shoot – taking still photos, film and drone footage. Judging by their equipment, anyone might think they were making a music video. But the brothers’ cameras are trained not on a pop star, but on a tractor with a short disc harrow. “This is a Fendt 939 Vario, only just ...

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India’s ‘paid labour’ shut down raises concerns

  AFP At a hostel for dozens of pregnant women, impoverished widow Sharmila Mackwan weighs up her decision to carry twins for another couple — her only ticket out of poverty — as the government moves to close India’s multi-million dollar surrogacy industry. She has left her own children at an orphanage for the whole nine months of her pregnancy ...

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OPEC may hold talks if members reach consensus

  Bloomberg OPEC may convene an extraordinary meeting if the group’s ministers reach a consensus on oil markets at an informal gathering next week in Algiers, Secretary General Mohammed Barkindo said, according to Algeria’s official news agency. Barkindo said he is “optimistic” about the informal session in Algiers to be held Sept. 27 on the sidelines of a conference of ...

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