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Bloomberg Illinois farmer David Erickson admits that what he and many U.S. farmers are about to do doesn’t seem to make much sense. With bulging stockpiles of corn and soybeans left over from last year’s harvest, they’re planting more in 2016 — even though the crops probably won’t be profitable. “It’s hard to get your head around the idea of ...

Bloomberg A move by Brazil’s largest party to depart from the ruling coalition further weakened the government and raised the odds that President Dilma Rousseff will lose the impeachment vote. The latest blow capped a month in which the least popular president in decades faced a wave of massive protests, fought accusations that she tried to obstruct a corruption probe, ...

Berlin / AFP Russia is running a “shadow government” in rebel-held territories of eastern Ukraine under the control of the FSB intelligence service, German daily Bild reported on Wednesday, citing minutes from an official commission. The report said that basic administrative functions of the cities of Donetsk and Lugansk are being run by six working groups at five Russian ministries. ...

Moscow / AFP Russia launched an investigation on Wednesday after a police officer was killed and two were injured in a bomb attack in the volatile Dagestan region that was claimed by the IS group. Two explosive devices were detonated on a main road near the city of Kaspiysk late Tuesday as two police vehicles passed, Russian authorities said. The ...

Brussels / AFP Brussels airport said it would not reopen on Wednesday despite drills to test resuming partial services after the suicide bombings that struck its departure hall and a metro train, as Belgium lowered the death toll to 32. Zaventem airport has been closed since twin bombings wrecked the departure hall on March 22, in coordinated suicide attacks that ...

PARIS / AP Police evacuated nearly 1,000 migrants on Wednesday from a makeshift camp near a Paris subway station, and hundreds of people sought to cross from Turkey to Greece despite European efforts to slow down the arrivals. The Paris operation was peaceful and authorities offered the migrants temporary lodging and help applying for asylum, the Interior Ministry said in ...

Bloomberg All three of the remaining Republican presidential candidates said at a CNN Town Hall in Milwaukee that they no longer feel beholden to the “loyalty pledge” they signed in September not to run as a third party candidate and to support the party’s presidential nominee. When asked point blank if he would pledge his support to the nominee, Trump ...

Republican peculiarities in this political season are so numerous and lurid that insufficient attention is being paid to this: The probable Democratic nominee’s principal credential, her service as secretary of state, is undermined by a debacle of remarkable dishonesty. Hillary Clinton’s supposedly supreme presidential qualification is not her public prominence, which is derivative from her marriage, or her unremarkable tenure ...

Southern Africa is reeling under an unprecedented dry spell. The region’s worst drought in over three decades has unleashed a severe hunger crisis. It is also taking a huge toll on economy. Ethiopia will miss the targeted economic growth due to the agriculture mayhem, caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon. Food imports are stuck in port logjams and the ...

Catherine Putz SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS Afghan refugees have returned to the headlines as European countries pursue avenues to send many of those waiting for asylum back to Afghanistan. A larger number reside in Pakistan and Iran, where they are stuck in the limbo of refugee camps. Meanwhile, many of those who have already returned remain in a difficult situation, ...