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Oct. 2, 2014 at 4:01 pm CDT

Toronto | Reuters — There are no plans to boycott next year’s Women’s World Cup but players will proceed with a gender discrimination lawsuit against FIFA if forced to play on artificial turf, one of the complainants said on Thursday. Reigning FIFA player of the year Nadine Angerer, who is […]

By Steve Keating

Oct. 2, 2014 at 3:52 pm CDT

Freetown/Dakar | Reuters — The threat of hunger is tracking Ebola across affected West African nations as the disease kills farmers and their families, drives workers from the fields and creates food shortages. In the worst-hit states of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea, Ebola is ravaging their food-producing regions, preventing […]

By Bate Felix, Umaru Fofana

Oct. 2, 2014 at 3:23 pm CDT

Hamburg | Reuters — Rapeseed crops in Germany are suffering unusually high levels of insect damage this autumn following the European Union’s ban on a controversial insecticide previously used to protect the oilseed, German farming association DBV said Thursday. Some farmers may suffer lower yields in the upcoming 2015 rapeseed […]

Oct. 2, 2014 at 3:15 pm CDT

Chicago | Reuters –– Chicago Mercantile Exchange live cattle futures on Thursday rose to a record high for a second consecutive session, supported in part by improved wholesale beef prices, traders said. October closed 0.375 cents per pound higher at 162.85 cents, and December up 0.525 cent to 166.425 cents […]

By Theopolis Waters

Oct. 1, 2014 at 6:35 pm CDT

Reuters — Fertilizer and ag retail firm Agrium said Wednesday it expected third-quarter earnings from continuing operations of 45 cents to 55 cents per share, falling short of Wall Street expectations. Analysts were expecting Agrium to report third-quarter earnings of 68 cents, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Two of Calgary-based […]