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HANOI (Reuters) - The mastermind of Vietnam's largest-ever financial fraud, Van Thinh Phat Holdings Group Chairwoman Truong My Lan, was sentenced to death on Thursday after a month-long trial. Lan and dozens of other defendants were found guilty of involvement in a real estate scam that siphoned off more than $12 billion from large private lender Saigon Joint Stock Commercial...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden's administration is offering farmers money for adopting practices that store carbon in the soil to fight climate change, but Reuters interviews with soil science experts and a review of U.S. Department of Agriculture research indicate doubt that the approach will be effective. Farm practices like planting cover crops and reducing farmland tilling are key...

CHICAGO, April 11 (Reuters) - Dairy farmers in the United States are raising their defenses to try to contain the spread of bird flu: banning visitors, cutting down trees to discourage wild birds from landing, and disinfecting vehicles coming onto their land. North Carolina on Wednesday became the seventh state to report an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI)...