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The tree and shrub seeds join more than two billion seeds of the rarest and most important species of plants from around the planet which have been conserved at the Millennium Seed Bank, the largest wild plant seed bank in the world.
In a message to Pret a Manger customers, CEO Pano Christou announced a handful of stores in the capital will also open from today to 'help give frontline healthcare workers better access to freshly prepared food'.
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This year, Newsom had proposed expanding those benefits to seniors 65 and older. California has been the most aggressive state in the nation when it comes to giving benefits to immigrants living in the country illegally. Last year, California became the first state to give taxpayer-funded health benefits to low-income adults 25 and younger living in the country illegally.
MOSCOW, April 15 (Reuters) - Russia enjoyed strong demand for its government bonds on Wednesday as central bank data showed that major Russian banks and foreign investors could Autocad homework help Moscow raise funds to finance its response to the coronavirus outbreak.
But cocaine with a street value of around half a million euros ($545,700) was recovered when police caught up with a car that sped away from a checkpoint in Dublin's city centre in the early hours of Tuesday before colliding with a wall near the city's River Liffey, 2 km (1.2 miles) away.
It is hoped the "time-traveller" seeds, along with data records such as the location and surrounding habitat of the tree they were collected from, will help scientists understand and tackle the threats woodlands face.
DUBLIN, April 15 (Reuters) - Irish police made one of their largest drug seizures of the year when a car tried to evade one of their checkpoints set up to enforce strict measures to curtail the spread of the coronavirus.
Two days earlier, on April 6, police found cocaine with a street value of about 51,000 euros after stopping a car at a checkpoint in southern Waterford. ($1 = 0.9163 euros) (Reporting by Graham Fahy; Editing by Padraic Halpin and Peter Cooney) On April 8, the first day of the increased Easter operation, police seized 20,000 smuggled cigarettes from a driver at a checkpoint in County Mayo.
The seeds have been collected with the help of more than 400 volunteers and staff at 30 partner organisations, from Cornwall to the Outer Hebrides and from sea level up to 600 metres up in the mountains.
The project aims to build up a genetically diverse collection of UK trees and shrubs to help protect woods in the face of new pests and diseases such as ash dieback, which is devastating one of the country's most common trees.
These trees provide habitat for other plants and animals, help with flood prevention and storing carbon, as well playing an important role in woodland industry, tourism and recreation, the experts said.
Ian Willey, fieldwork officer at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, said: "As we've seen with ash dieback, pests and pathogens can cause a huge change to our woodlands and the many plants and animals they support.
"In current conditions, the finance ministry has every chance of hitting the quarterly target but, as today's auctions showed, it requires a premium to the secondary market," said Evgeniy Vertiporokh, an analyst at Rosbank.
Net purchases of OFZs by systemically important Russian banks reached 200.7 billion roubles in March, while foreigners' share among OFZ holders slipped to 30.9% as of April 10, down from 34.1% in early March, the central bank said.
And Newsom said the state will begin distributing federal unemployment benefits by the end of the month to people who usually aren't eligible for them, including the gig workers and the self-employed. On Wednesday, Newsom announced the state's call center will expand its hours to 8 am to 8 pm, seven days a week. More than 1,300 state employees have been reassigned to help process the claims.
Demand for OFZ bonds, popular among foreign investors thanks to their lucrative yields, is seen as a gauge of attitude towards Russian assets at a time when Moscow plans to step up borrowing to fight the aftermath of the novel coronavirus.
The fact that the finance ministry did not cancel auctions despite a sharp drop in the rouble, as it has done in the past, highlights Russia's need for extra funds. On Wednesday alone, the ministry fulfilled one sixth of its quarterly borrowing plan.
Russia's fiscal position remains strong as its total external debt shrank in the first quarter to its lowest level since 2009, below the central bank's gold and forex reserves that stood above $564 billion in early April. ($1 = 74.9809 roubles) (Additional reporting by Alexander Marrow and Katya Golubkova Writing by Andrey Ostroukh Editing by Mark Heinrich)
