TORONTO, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - Oct. 6, 2014) - AgriMinco Corp. (the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:ANO) would like to announce the resignation of Pamela Hueston from the board of directors (the "Board"), effective immediately.

The Company would also like to announce the appointment of Russel Swarts as a Non-executive Director on the board, effective immediately.

Johan Slabber, CEO of the Company, expressed his appreciation on behalf of the Board to Pamela Hueston. He noted that Russel Swarts brings special skills to the Company in corporate affairs, market communication and deal structuring.

Mr Swarts is a qualified Chartered Accountant with extensive experience in corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, specialist financing, strategic planning and structuring. Mr Swarts has acted in significant capacities for a number of major groups, including the Radiospoor group as the CEO whereby he assisted in merging the paging operations with its largest competitor before selling the group off to an international investor. Mr Swarts has served in several senior financial roles for Dorbyl, Barlow's, Premier Groups and as a financial director at a private equity BEE group. He consulted on the $2.5bn takeover of UraMin by Areva NC and spent 5 years as CFO of the London Stock Exchange AIM llisted URU Metals.

AgriMinco Corp. is a Canadian company based in Toronto, Ontario Canada. For more information regarding AgriMinco visit our website at www.agriminco.com.

Neither TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.

AgriMinco Corp.Johan SlabberChief Executive Officer and Director+27 72 018 5480Johanslabber@yahoo.co.ukAgriMinco Corp.Bruce CummingExecutive Director+27 72 623 46711 or 416 907 5644Bruce@agriminco.comwww.agriminco.com

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AMSTERDAM, Oct. 21, 2014

AMSTERDAM, Oct. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Ultrafast broadband, that can enable the Internet of Everything, which includes 4K-video and cloud-based applications, is a growing presence as a proportion of total world fixed broadband subscriptions, which reached a record 700.19 million this week. But now the big challenge for the emerging ultrafast technologies such as G.fast is interoperability and today at the Broadband World Forum in Amsterdam, the Broadband Forum is hosting the most advanced showcase of interoperable equipment and solutions ever staged, on its Interoperability Pavilion.

The Broadband Forum's work and mission is focused on ensuring that broadband enables innovative high-speed applications and cloud based services to deploy at pace. However, as the network evolves and even higher speeds can be achieved with more innovative technologies, interoperability remains the key enabler.

This week's Pavilion features 17 of the world's top vendors, test houses and industry bodies and visitors will be able to see live examples of the latest G.fast technology, VDSL2 Vectoring, GPON and the Forum's much-acclaimed TR-069 remote management protocol. The Pavilion is at the heart of the event at stand number E50 and among the organizations supporting the Forum has been the ITU-T, which is a partner for the Pavilion.

"Both standards and their implementation are a collaborative effort, and ITU-T is working closely with the Broadband Forum and others to help deliver both the protocols and the fast deployment of innovative technological developments such as G.fast. We are pleased to support this Pavilion as one example of our close collaboration," said the Director of the ITU Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, Mr. Malcolm Johnson. "Working together, ITU and the Broadband Forum can make sure the framework is in place to move to ultrafast rates."

G.fast is one of the main areas of focus on the Pavilion. It answers many of the deployment questions around the demand for faster broadband – giving Gigabit speeds without the Outside Plant (OSP) costs. It is essentially a "fiber to the periphery" solution, bringing fiber closer to the customer; typically to within 20-200m depending on the deployment scenario. G.fast is set to be very important, particularly as service providers look to provide services such as IPTV at 500 to 1000 Mbps.

As G.fast moves forward, the Broadband Forum has also selected the world's first testing laboratory to certify products designed for G.fast deployment. It has chosen the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL), which has more than 25 years' experience and major testing facilities.

"Interoperability of the G.fast and FTTdp solutions is essential to the rollout of these new technologies, and we're working diligently with the Broadband Forum to quickly develop the test plans and certification program in step with the broadband industry's first anticipated wave of G.fast products," said Lincoln Lavoie, UNH-IOL Senior Engineer, Broadband Technologies. "Our goal is to begin initial testing of G.fast products during the first half of 2015 and deliver the first certifications during the second half of the year, so service providers can assure the certified CPE and DPU devices selected for their first FTTdp deployment will be interoperable."

Robin Mersh, CEO, Broadband Forum added: "Operators have told us that interoperability will be key to the success of G.fast, so we are developing test plans based on their requirements, which UNH-IOL will certify based on those plans."

"But the Pavilion is about much more than G.fast. We have all our approved test labs involved, with Telebyte's G.Vector test lab coordinating a multi-vendor Fiber To The Node (FTTN) VDSL2 Vectoring demonstration, LAN showcasing our BBF.247 certification program and UNH-IOL showing the BBF.069 program and G.fast. In addition we have many other member companies showcasing compliance to Broadband Forum programs and test plans."

In addition to the Forum and the ITU-T, companies and organizations taking part include ADTRAN, Huawei, JDSU, Juniper Networks, UNH-IOL, Actelis, Sckipio, Lantiq, Keymile, LAN, MT2, Telebyte, Sagemcom, Alcatel-Lucent, EXFO, ADB and Ikanos Communications.

The opening of the Pavilion comes just after the latest broadband data from Point Topic showed that there are now more than 700 million fixed broadband subscriptions in the world, an improvement on the 0.8% growth recorded in Q2 2013.

Oliver Johnson, CEO, Point Topic: "Our latest data sees another milestone passed with steady growth in most countries. As we start to figure out how to use what we have, and perhaps more importantly how to coordinate the services and extract the synergies, we'll see more and more positive outcomes in the coming years. It's very exciting."

For more information about the Broadband Forum, please go to http://www.broadband-forum.org or follow @Broadband_Forum on Twitter. For further information please contact Brian Dolby on +44 (0) 7899 914168 or Dana Hare on +44 (0) 1636 812152 or send an email to brian.dolby@proactive-pr.com or dana.hare@proactive-pr.com.

To see this press release, please visit: http://www.broadband-forum.org/news/download/pressreleeases/2014/BBF_BBWFPavilion_Final_16Oct2014.pdf

About the Broadband ForumBroadband Forum, a non-profit industry organization, is focused on engineering smarter and faster broadband networks. Our work defines best practices for global networks, enables service and content delivery, establishes technology migration strategies, engineers critical device & service management tools, and is key to redefining broadband. Our free technical reports and white papers can be found at www.broadband-forum.org. Twitter @Broadband_Forum.

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WEST CHESTER, Ohio, May 19, 2014

WEST CHESTER, Ohio, May 19, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- The Walbridge, Ohio plant of AK Tube LLC, a subsidiary of AK Steel (NYSE: AKS), has been recognized for outstanding safety performance by the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, Division of Safety and Hygiene. The recognition is part of a collaborative safety awareness program established by the Northwest Ohio Safety Council.

"We are honored to be recognized by the Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation, Division of Safety and Hygiene, an achievement that speaks volumes about our culture of safety at AK Steel," said James L. Wainscott, Chairman, President and CEO of AK Steel. "We congratulate all of our employees at AK Tube in Walbridge for their continued dedication to outstanding safety performance."

The Walbridge plant of AK Tube received the "Special Award for Safety" for operating 1,254,772 man-hours without a lost-time injury between March 17, 2009 and June 13, 2013. This is the fifth time that the plant has received this award.

AK Steel's corporate-wide safety performance led the steel industry by a wide margin for the full-year 2013.

AK Steel AK Steel produces flat-rolled carbon, stainless and electrical steels, primarily for automotive, infrastructure and manufacturing, construction and electrical power generation and distribution markets. The company employs about 6,100 men and women in Middletown, Mansfield, Coshocton and Zanesville, Ohio; Butler, Pennsylvania; Ashland, Kentucky; Rockport, Indiana; and its corporate headquarters in West Chester, Ohio. Additional information about AK Steel is available on the company's web site at www.aksteel.com.

AK Tube LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AK Steel, employs about 300 men and women in plants in Walbridge, Ohio and Columbus, Indiana. AK Tube produces carbon and stainless electric resistance welded (ERW) tubular steel products for truck, automotive and other markets. Additional information about AK Tube LLC is available on its web site at www.aktube.com.

AK Coal Resources, Inc., another wholly-owned subsidiary of AK Steel, produces metallurgical coal from reserves in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. AK Steel also owns 49.9% of Magnetation LLC, a joint venture headquartered in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, which produces iron ore concentrate from previously mined ore reserves.

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The Israeli military said a preliminary investigation indicated that security personnel had fired rubber bullets but not live ammunition during the May 15 clashes outside Israel's Ofer prison near the West Bank city of Ramallah.

However, it said that two investigations - one by military police - were still under way.

The Palestinian government issued a statement on Tuesday accusing Israel of "cold-blooded murder" and carrying out "a war crime against defenseless children".

Palestinian hospital officials said Muhammad Abu Thahr and Nadim Nuwara had both been shot in the heart. Officials originally gave their respective ages as 22 and 17, but later said they were 16 and 17.

The killings took place during protests across the West Bank on Nakba Day, when the Palestinians mark the loss of their homes in the 1948 war that resulted in the creation of the state of Israel and the flight of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.

Defence for Children International (DCI) posted two minutes of video on YouTube, which it said was edited from six hours of surveillance footage from fixed security cameras at a Palestinian-owned business that overlooks the scene.

The group said the video shows that troops had committed "unlawful killings where neither child presented a direct and immediate threat to life at the time of their shooting".

Under Israeli rules of engagement, troops can use live ammunition only if they feel they are in mortal danger or if they are fired on themselves.

No uniformed Israeli troops can be seen in the video footage and there is no audio. (here)

Initial video shows a youth preparing to hurl a stone from the end of a street, which runs alongside a row of shuttered shops. Seven minutes later, according to a timestamp on the film, a young man is seen falling over, felled by apparent gunfire, as he walks down the street, his hands by his side.

A group of bystanders are seen to duck at the same moment.

An hour later, a second youth collapses to the ground as he walks away from the area, which by now appears largely deserted, his back turned to the scene of the earlier confrontations.

"QUESTION MARKS"

At the Nuwara family home in Ramallah, a poster bearing Nadim's photo and proclaiming him a martyr to the Palestinian cause hung from a wall.

The youngster's father, Siam, held out a now-bloodstained backpack which he said his son had been wearing when he was shot. He displayed a bullet which he said had been lodged inside after it passed through the youngster's chest and back.

A shopkeeper interviewed by the DCI said he heard four live rounds fired during the demonstration.

Israeli military spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner said on Tuesday that only riot-dispersal means, including tear gas and rubber bullets, were used to quell the protest.

"However, there are still question marks around this incident and there is an ongoing investigation. In parallel a military police investigation has also been opened," he said.

Brad Parker, an attorney for DCI, could not rule out the possibility that the Palestinians who were killed had been involved in earlier violence at the scene.

"The broader context is, there were clashes," Parker told Reuters. "It's difficult to tell if they were throwing stones, (but) at the exact moment they were shot they weren't active."

Senior Palestinian official Hanan Ashrawi said in a statement that the use of "excessive and indiscriminate violence" constituted a war crime and called on world powers to hold Israel accountable for "extrajudicial killings".

(Editing by Crispian Balmer and Mark Heinrich)