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Facing a national food crisis, Venezuela's pumpkin-growing socialist president is exhorting compatriots to grow fruit and vegetables on balconies and roofs and in barracks across the country. Nathan Frandino reports.
Caracas, Jul 15 (EFE).- Three neighbors chat at the door of Rene Solarte's home, just as they would on any other day in Catia, a poor neighborhood on the Venezuelan capital's west side. (CAMERA: Andry Rincón)
Abandoned animals are filling the streets of Venezuela as owners who are struggling to feed themselves can no longer take care of them.
New Jersey’s gambling hub now teeters on the brink of fiscal ruin. Officials are proposing actions to reverse the fortunes of this once-thriving casino town, involving new revenue sources and a more complete state takeover of operations. No reporter narration.
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen recommends the bloc drop a plan to cut pesticide use in agriculture as a concession to protesting European farmers. The original proposal, put forward by her European Commission as part of the European Union's green transition, "has become a symbol of polarisation," she tells the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. SOUNDBITE