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Washington, DC - A Chinese scientist was sentenced to 121 months in a federal prison for conspiring to steal samples of a variety of rice seeds from a Kansas biopharmaceutical research facility.
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Rome, Italy - "Greetings from Rome! This week, I'm attending the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Second International Symposium on Agroecology. Yesterday, I was honored to speak on a panel discussing "Innovative Markets, Food Systems, and Cities." I have met so many inspiring people working to scale up, and scale out agroecology, including our friends at the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, Practical Action, the AgroEcology Fund, More and Better, the McKnight Foundation, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, Oxfam, and many more. I am grateful to have this opportunity to listen and engage in discussions with food systems leaders from all over the world who are focused on promoting agroecology as a pathway to achieving the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Washington, DC - Securing the Southern Border of the United States:
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Washington, DC - The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), in partnership with Israel's Ministry of Energy (MOE) and the Israel Innovation Authority, announced a new funding opportunity for 2018 through Binational Industrial Research & Development (BIRD) Energy, a program for joint U.S.-Israel industrial research and development (R&D) in renewable and energy efficiency technologies.
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Washington, DC - Acting Secretary of State John J. Sullivan met today with Chinese Ambassador Cui Tiankai at the State Department. Acting Secretary Sullivan and Ambassador Cui agreed on the importance of pursuing a constructive U.S.-China relationship that produces meaningful results and reaffirmed the commitment of the United States and China to the complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
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Washington, DC - The United States filed a civil complaint seeking to permanently bar Michael L. Meyer, of Southwest Ranches, Florida, from providing federal tax advice for compensation because Meyer allegedly promotes, organizes, and executes a national charitable giving tax scheme that has cost the United States Treasury more than $35 million. The complaint alleges that Meyer executes his scheme through three bogus charities that he controls. The United States also seeks to disgorge the fees that Meyer received from the scheme.
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