Too small for fries: Drought shrinks Belgian potatoes Andrew Zinin Chief Editor Mathieu Comijn inspected rows of potatoes in a field of cracked earth and browned leaves, pulling from the ground tubers barely the size of pingpong balls. "How do you expect to make fries out of these?" asked the Belgian farmer in frustration as he uprooted another…
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MOSCOW, August 26. /TASS/. Over the past 24 hours, units of the Ukrainian armed forces have lost 71 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a Bucephalus armored personnel carrier (APC), and 46…