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Greece's First Deputy Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis said on Tuesday that the country and the EU as a whole should brace for a grain deficit as the result of the conflict in Ukraine and anti-Russia sanctions.See also:
The shortage could mean, "Firstly, a significant increase in prices and, secondly, it could mean that we will see unrest in the wider region and especially in North Africa and the Middle East," he said at a meeting in Brussels.
Russia's military operation in Ukraine has affected grain supplies from the two countries, which are major global exporters. The crisis has sent wheat prices soaring in recent weeks to the highest point since 2008. Global food prices have also hit historic highs amid supply concerns.


"I think that the integrity of women's sport if we don't get this right, and actually the future of women's sport, is very fragile," Coe said, with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) handing over the responsibility to individual bodies to determine their own policies for trans athletes in line with the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) stance.
"There is no question to me that testosterone is the key determinant in performance," Coe went on, as USA Swimming updated its rules for elite swimmers in February which will see testosterone tests for trans athletes 36 months before competitions in a bid to reduce any unfair advantages.
At World Athletics, transgender athletes must prove low testosterone levels across a 12-month period to be allowed to take part in their events.
"Look at the nature of 12 or 13-year-old girls," Coe suggested. "I remember my daughters would regularly outrun male counterparts in their class but as soon as puberty kicks in that gap opens and it remains. Gender cannot trump biology," he claimed.
"You can't be oblivious to public sentiment, of course not. But science is important," Coe stressed. "If I wasn't satisfied with the science that we have and the experts that we have used and the in-house teams that have been working on this for a long time, if I wasn't comfortable about that, this would be a very different landscape."
Meanwhile one of Thomas' rivals has spoken out against the UPenn swimmer, who was on the Ivy League college's men's team for three years prior to beginning hormone replacement therapy in 2019.
In a letter sent to the leading college sports organization, Hungary's Reka Gyorgy accused the NCAA of denying her a "spot in the final" in one of its swimming championships through allowing Thomas to compete.
"It hurts me," Gyorgy allegedly wrote, after failing to make the consolation final by one spot in her last ever college meet with a 17th place showing in the preliminary races for the 500-yard freestyle event, which also left her feeling "frustrated".
"It feels like that final spot was taken away from me because of the NCAA's decision to let someone who is not a biological female compete," said the 25-year-old, who starred at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and has featured on Virginia Tech's swimming team for the past five years.
While Gyorgy noted that Thomas was "doing what she is passionate about and deserves that right", Gyorgy said she wanted "to critique the NCAA rules that allow her to compete against us".
"This is the problem that I had with the New York Post article and the Hunter Biden laptop being suppressed. It's not that I'm a Trump supporter, I didn't vote for him, I've never voted for any Republican in my life."
"You're looking at something that's real information and you're hiding it from people cause you don't like the result you think is going to come out of that information. That's not how we're supposed to be doing things!"
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