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Chicago corn, soybeans and wheat were lower on Thursday, curbed by a sharp rise in the dollar and ample short-term supplies in international grain markets.

Russia has introduced temporary restrictions on exports of gasoline and diesel in order to stabilise the domestic market, the government said on Thursday.

Indian budget carrier Akasa Air has accused the aviation regulator of causing it "significant financial and operational hardship" by not intervening to stop pilots from abruptly quitting and disrupting operations, legal filings showed.

Vietnamese and Thai rice export rates declined further from recent highs this week, while India's curbs on parboiled rice exports brought activity to a standstill for the top exporter as buyers held off for cheaper deals.

Malaysian palm oil futures ended at a three-month closing low on Thursday, mirroring steep declines in Dalian's soyoil contract. The last comparable trading level recorded was on June 27.

Poland is only carrying out previously agreed arms deliveries to Ukraine, a government spokesman said on Thursday, amid souring bilateral relations due to a grain dispute just weeks before a Polish parliamentary election.

Ryanair said on Thursday it did not see a risk of the European Union introducing minimum prices or compulsory limits on flights because it would disenfranchise poorer people, making it politically impossible.

India's sugar production is expected to improve due to good rains in September, the country's food secretary said on Thursday, adding the government would ask mills to sell extra stocks of sugar in local markets to cool prices.

South Africa faces chicken meat shortages in the coming months as a bird flu outbreak and electricity cuts ravage the poultry industry, the country's largest producer Astral Foods said on Thursday.

Travel boom has delivered bumper earnings for U.S. carriers, but no-frills airlines such as Frontier and Spirit are struggling to return to sustainable profitability.

Copper prices fell to the lowest in five weeks in London on Thursday as the U.S. Federal Reserve signalled policy would remain restrictive for longer, the dollar rose to a six-month high and data showed further growth in the metal inventories.

Coffee trading in Vietnam continued on a sluggish note this week due to empty stocks, with traders awaiting the new crop season that begins next month, while premiums eased slightly in Indonesia, traders said on Thursday.

Slovakia and Ukraine's farm ministers have agreed to establish a licensing system for trading in grains, allowing a ban on imports of four Ukrainian commodities to Slovakia to be lifted once the system is set up, the Slovak Agriculture Ministry said on Thursday.

Egypt is in talks with an Abu Dhabi-based bank for a loan facility that would finance wheat purchases from Kazakhstan, three traders told Reuters.

A group of South Korean flour mills bought an estimated 94,400 metric tons of milling wheat to be sourced from the United States in an international tender on Thursday, European traders said.

Ryanair said on Thursday it will cut 17 routes from its winter schedule at Dublin airport and move all 19 of its new Boeing 737 MAX planes to other European airports that offer incentives to fly quieter, lower CO2 emission aircraft.

A group of South Korean flour mills bought an estimated 94,400 metric tonnes of milling wheat to be sourced from the United States in an international tender on Thursday, European traders said.

India's soybean production is expected to drop as patchy monsoon rains in August stunted the crop in some key growing areas, industry officials and farmers said on Thursday.

Most nonferrous metals fell on Thursday, weighed by a firmer U.S. dollar, with copper and lead also pressured by higher inventories.

Australia's Qantas Airways' chairman has refused to step down even as investors continued to demand his resignation amid a slew of scandals that have affected the carrier, ABC News reported on Thursday, citing an interview to a radio program.