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GRAIN 211 ships carrying 4.7 million tons of agricultural products have so far left Ukraine under an agreement brokered by the United Nations and Turkey to unblock Ukrainian sea ports, the ministry of infrastructure in Ukraine has announced. The agreement signed on July 22nd in Istanbul provides for setting up safe corridors for the transport of Ukrainian grain. Ukraine's grain exports slumped after the Russian invasion in late February and the blockade on the country's Black Sea ports, driving up global food prices and prompting fears of shortages in Africa and the Middle East. Ukraine, a major grain producer and exporter, used to have monthly grain shipments up to 6 million tons before the war. After the Russian invasion, Ukraine had to shift to the road and river transport infrastructures to ship its grain to Eastern Europe, but the quantities exported have been significantly lower due to some logistic shortcomings.
MEDALS Romanian rowers walked away with four gold medals from the World Championships in Racice, the Czech Republic. The winners are the lightweight single women's scull, the men's double scull, the women's double scull and the women's eight. The Romanian delegation participated with 11 boats and managed to qualify in nine finals. In the medals' standings Britain ranks first followed by Italy and Romania. At the previous edition of the aforementioned competition in Ottensheim, Austria, the Romanian men's four and women's double sculls obtained two silver medals.
VISIT Over September 26-28, Romania's Prime Minister, Nicolae Ciuca is paying a visit to Tokyo to participate in the state funeral staged in the honor of the country's former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. According to a government communiqué, the former Japanese Prime Minister made a significant contribution to lifting the bilateral relations between the two countries to the degree of a strategic partnership during the visit he paid to Bucharest in 2018, being the first Japanese Prime Minister to have visited Romania. "Japan is one of Romania's main partners in Asia both at political and economic level and there are all the prerequisites to transform this bilateral relation spanning more than one century into a privileged relation at the level of strategic partnership", Prime Minister Ciuca has said. On the sidelines of his visit to Tokyo, the Romanian official will be received by his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida and will be having talks with the delegation of the Japan-Romania Parliamentary Friendship League chaired by Ichiro Aisawa and with Hosoda Hiroyuki, Speaker of the House of Representatives of Japan.
REFUGEES Roughly 10,400 Ukrainian nationals entered Romania on Saturday, 6.3% more than in the previous day, the Romanian border police have announced. Since February 10th, over 2.4 million Ukrainians have entered Romania most of them transiting it. In the past 24 hours, the Romanian authorities have issued 77 residence permits for the Ukrainian citizens. According to the Interior Ministry in Bucharest, 70 thousand such permits have been issued since March 18th. Since the beginning of the conflict in Ukraine, roughly 44 hundred Ukrainians have applied for asylum in Romania.
IT Romania has this week become European champion in the 2022 Junior Informatics Olympiad. According to the Society for Excellence and Performance in Computing, students from Romania won two gold, four silver and one bronze medal at the aforementioned competition staged online by Ukraine, which brought together 170 competitors from 132 countries. The winners are students from the cities of Bucharest and Ploiesti in southern Romania and according to the teachers training them Romania is the only country that has managed to win gold in every edition of the aforementioned competition.
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