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Mideast countries that are already struggling fear price hikes after Russia exits grain deal
Egypt and other lower-income Middle Eastern countries like Lebanon and Pakistan are worried about what comes next after Russia pulled out of a crucial wartime grain deal.
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Russia halts landmark deal that allowed Ukraine to export grain at time of growing hunger
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Russia agrees to extend Ukraine grain deal in a boost for global food security
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Food prices fall on world markets but not on kitchen tables
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Madagascar faces ‘catastrophic’ hunger after 3 cyclones
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Hunger is soaring and spreading across West Africa, says UN
United Nations’ officials say hunger is soaring and spreading across West Africa, with a 10-year high of some 48 million people facing food insecurity in the conflict-riddled region.
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UN food agency: $800m urgently needed for Afghanistan
The U.N. food agency says it urgently needs $800 million for the next six months to help Afghans, with the country at the highest risk of famine in a quarter of a century.
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Russia: West must remove obstacles to its grain exports
Russia’s top diplomat says Moscow may pull out of a wartime deal that allows the export of Ukrainian grain to global markets if the West fails to remove obstacles to Russian agricultural exports.
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Some in dry Somalia break Ramadan fast with little but water
This year’s holy month of Ramadan coincides with the longest drought on record in Somalia. As the sun sets and Muslims around the world gather to break their daily fasts with generous dinners, Hadiiq Abdulle Mohamed and her family have just water and whatever food might be at hand.
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Putin warns Russia could drop grain deal after 60 days
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reaffirmed that Moscow has agreed to extend a deal allowing the exports of Ukrainian grain to global markets only for 60 days and could drop it altogether if its conditions aren’t met.
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Russia, Ukraine extend grain deal to aid world’s poor
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and United Nations officials say an unprecedented wartime deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia has been extended.
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Russia will extend Ukraine grain deal for 60 days — not 120
On the eve of the expiration of a deal enabling Ukraine to export grain, the United Nations’ humanitarian chief called its extension crucial to ensuring global food supplies and keeping prices from spiraling.
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Ukrainian grain shipments drop as ship backups grow
The amount of grain leaving Ukraine has dropped even as a U.N.-brokered deal works to keep food flowing to developing nations nearly a year into Russia’s invasion.
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UN eyes revival of millets as global grain uncertainty grows
With concerns about war, drought and the environment raising new worries about food supplies, the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization has christened 2023 as the “Year of Millets” — grains that have been cultivated in all corners of the globe for millennia but have been largely pushed aside.
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Inspections of Ukrainian grain ships halved since October
Inspections of ships carrying Ukrainian grain and other food exports have slowed to half their peak rate under a U.N.-brokered wartime agreement.
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World Food Program chief: Somali famine slowed, not avoided
The head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Program says support from donors like the United States and Germany have allowed it to postpone — though not entirely avert — famine in Somalia.
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Civilians escape Kherson after Russian strikes on freed city
Fleeing shelling, civilians have streamed out of the southern Ukrainian city whose recapture they had celebrated just weeks earlier.
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UN: Children in Haiti hit by cholera as malnutrition rises
UNICEF officials say a cholera outbreak sweeping through Haiti is claiming a growing number of children amid a surge in malnutrition.
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In war-torn states hurt by climate, scant hope for new funds
For conflict-ravaged nations, climate change is an added disaster. In many Middle Eastern and African nations, climatic shocks killed hundreds and displaced thousands every year, causing worsening food shortages.
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Russia-Ukraine grain deal extended in win for food prices
A wartime agreement that unblocked grain shipments from Ukraine and helped temper rising global food prices will be extended by four months.
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US presses, but Russia reluctant on Ukraine grain deal
The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations has told Ukrainian farmers that extending a wartime deal to export Ukrainian grains across the Black Sea is a priority.
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Leaders conclude 31st Arab League summit in Algeria
Leaders have concluded a two-day summit of the Arab League in Algeria. The gathering took place against the backdrop of rising inflation and the soaring cost of living across the Middle East and Africa.
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Ships sail after Russia exits grain deal, but future in flux
Ships loaded with grain have departed Ukraine despite Russia suspending its participation in a U.N.-brokered deal that ensures safe wartime passage of critical food supplies.
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EXPLAINER: What Russia’s suspension of grain deal could mean
Russia has suspended its part of the deal allowing Ukraine to ship grain from its Black Sea ports safely amid a monthslong war, saying it was not going to allow ships to travel.
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Russia suspends Ukraine grain deal over ship attack claim
Russia says it will immediately suspend a U.N.-brokered grain export deal that has seen more than 9 million tons of grain exported from Ukraine and brought down global food prices.
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UN: Almost 1 million drought-hit Somalis in al-Shabab areas
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations says close to 1 million drought-affected people in Somalia are in areas under the control or influence of the al-Shabab extremist group, and it appealed to the fighters to allow humanitarian access as famine threatens the country.
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Doctors say ‘fossil fuel addiction’ kills, starves millions
A new report from doctors and other health experts says the world’s fossil fuel addiction is making the world sicker and is killing people.
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Migrants feel inflation’s squeeze twice — at home and abroad
In nearly every corner of the globe, people are spending more on food and fuel, rent and transportation. But inflation isn’t affecting people equally.
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New report: A record 4.7 million Haitians face acute hunger
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A record 4.7 million people in Haiti are facing acute hunger, including 19,000 in catastrophic famine conditions for the first time, all in a slum controlled by gangs in the capital, according to a report released Friday.
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UN chief urges Yemen’s warring parties to extend truce
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. special envoy for Yemen on Thursday blamed Houthi rebels for the failure to renew a six-month-long truce and called on the warring parties to demonstrate “leadership, compromise and flexibility.”
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Prolonged drought brings famine, death and fear to Somalia
DOLLOW, Somalia (AP) — A man in a donkey cart comes wheeling through the dust, carrying two small, silent boys. The sky is overcast. It could rain. It won’t.
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Amnesty: Creditors should provide debt relief to Sri Lanka
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — International creditors should provide debt relief to Sri Lanka to alleviate suffering as its people endure hunger, worsening poverty and shortages of basic supplies, Amnesty International said in a statement Wednesday.
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EXPLAINER: A look at famine and its toll as Somalia at risk
DOLLOW, Somalia (AP) — Within weeks, a famine could be declared in Somalia, affecting more than 850,000 people in two of the country’s worst drought-affected areas plus thousands of people in displacement camps.
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Russia smuggling Ukrainian grain to help pay for Putin’s war
BEIRUT (AP) — When the bulk cargo ship Laodicea docked in Lebanon last summer, Ukrainian diplomats said the vessel was carrying grain stolen by Russia and urged Lebanese officials to impound the ship.
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Rebel violence in eastern Congo causes hunger to soar
Humanitarian workers say hunger is now soaring in eastern Congo after months of fighting between M23 rebels and the army.
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