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• WORLD IN BRIEF

  Published: October 20, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Brief, Christopher P Neil, Ehud Olmert, Ernest Norton, United Nations World Food Programme, Oaxaca, Evo Morales, Idris Osman, Jerusalem, London, Mogadishu, Pacific Ocean, Santa Cruz, Sergio Segreste, Yisrael Katz, Bolivia, Israel, Mexico, Somalia, Thailand, United N

  Armed with clubs and waving provincial flags, thousands of residents of Bolivia's wealthiest and largest province seized control of the country's busiest airport Friday from troops sent in by President Evo Morales.

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• Somali President Hospitalized in Nairobi

  Published: December 5, 2007, 12:00 am

  Tags: Somali, President, Hospitalized, Nairobi, United States, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Addis Ababa, Condoleezza Rice, Horn Of Africa, Peter Smerdon, Somalia, United Nations, United Nations World Food Programme, London, Mogadishu, Nur Hassan Hussein, Ted Dagne, U S Congression

  MARKA, Somalia, Dec. 5 -- Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf checked into a Nairobi hospital Tuesday complaining of difficulty breathing, according to Western diplomats in the region, who said his health problem is unlikely to trigger a new political crisis in this fragile Horn of Africa nation.

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• Huge Gap Predicted In Supply Of Food

  Published: April 17, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Huge, Gap, Predicted, Supply, Food, North Korea, Tony Banbury, United Nations World Food Programme, China, South Korea, United Nations, Bangkok, Jean Pierre De Margerie, Lee Myung Bak, Pyongyang, Food And Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations, Asia

  TOKYO, April 16 -- North Korea is facing a humanitarian crisis this year and will likely need large food donations from the international community, the U.N. World Food Program said Wednesday.

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• U.S. Scrambles to Address International Food Crisis

  Published: April 26, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: U S, Scrambles, Address, International, Food, Crisis, George W Bush, United States, The White House, India, Andrew S Natsios, Jennifer Parmelee, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Pakistan, United Nations, United Nations World Food Programme, United States Agency For International

  The Bush administration and Congress have been caught flat-footed by rapidly escalating global food prices and are scrambling to respond to a crisis that they increasingly view as a threat to U.S. national security, according to government officials, congressional staffers and human rights experts.

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• U.S. Scrambles to Address International Food Crisis

  Published: April 26, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: U S, Scrambles, Address, International, Food, Crisis, George W Bush, United States, The White House, India, Andrew S Natsios, Jennifer Parmelee, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Pakistan, United Nations, United Nations World Food Programme, United States Agency For International

  The Bush administration and Congress have been caught flat-footed by rapidly escalating global food prices and are scrambling to respond to a crisis that they increasingly view as a threat to U.S. national security, according to government officials, congressional staffers and human rights experts.

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• U.S. Scrambles to Address International Food Crisis

  Published: April 26, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: U S, Scrambles, Address, International, Food, Crisis, George W Bush, United States, The White House, India, Andrew S Natsios, Jennifer Parmelee, Egypt, Indonesia, Iraq, Pakistan, United Nations, United Nations World Food Programme, United States Agency For International

  The Bush administration and Congress have been caught flat-footed by rapidly escalating global food prices and are scrambling to respond to a crisis that they increasingly view as a threat to U.S. national security, according to government officials, congressional staffers and human rights experts.

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• Where Every Meal Is a Sacrifice

  Published: April 28, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Where, Every, Meal, Sacrifice, Likbir Ould Mohamed Mahmoud, United Nations World Food Programme, Mauritania, Nouakchott, Mali, Africa, Argentina, Kazakhstan, Senegal, The Washington Post Company, Washington Dc, Gian Carlo Cirri, Joachim Von Braun, Josette Sheeran, Lon

  NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania Even before he took a butcher knife to the she-goat's throat, Likbir Ould Mohamed Mahmoud knew it would only make things worse.

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• S. Korean Principles Vs. Hunger in North

  Published: April 30, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Korean, Principles, Hunger, North, North Korea, South Korea, Seoul, China, Andrei Lankov, Stella Kim, United Nations World Food Programme, Korea Institute For National Unification, Korean Peninsula, Lee Myung Bak, Geneva, Kim Dong Shik, Roh Moo Hyun, Citizen S Coa

  SEOUL -- This spring on the Korean Peninsula, human rights are on a collision course with hunger.

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• In India, Even Gods Are Going Hungry

  Published: April 30, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: India, Even, Gods, Are, Going, Hungry, New Delhi, India, Gopal Atrey, United Nations, Raju Kumar, Unicef, Ria Sen, Bangladesh, Egypt, Haiti, Senegal, Thailand, United Nations World Food Programme, South Asia, Sub Saharan Africa, Uttar Pradesh

  NEW DELHI -- Every morning, Hindu devotees haul buckets of fresh, creamy milk into this neighborhood temple, then close their eyes and bow in prayer as the milk is used to bathe a Hindu deity. At the foot of the statue, they leave small baskets of bananas, coconuts, incense sticks and marigolds.

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• U.N. Task Force To Address Rising World Food Crisis

  Published: April 30, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: U N, Task, Force, Address, Rising, World, Food, Crisis, United Nations, United Nations World Food Programme, Africa, Ban Ki Moon, Bern, Geneva, Rome, Food And Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations, Southeast Asia

  BERN, Switzerland, April 29 -- The United Nations will establish a top-level task force to address food shortages and escalating prices that threaten to touch off a "cascade of related crises" around the world, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.

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• U.S. to Send N. Korea 500,000 Tons of Food Aid

  Published: May 17, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: U S, Send, Korea, 500 000, Tons, Food, Aid, United States, North Korea, Marcus Noland, United Nations World Food Programme, Pyongyang, U S Department Of State, United States Agency For International Development, Sean Mccormack, China, Peter G Peterson Institute F

  The Bush administration said yesterday it will restart food aid to North Korea and provide it with more than 500,000 tons of food -- the largest one-year amount since 1999.

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• How to Feed the World

  Published: May 10, 2008, 12:49 pm

  Tags: International Edition, The World Bank Group, United Nations World Food Programme, China, India, International Monetary Fund, Pontiac G8, United Nations, United Kingdom, Bangladesh, Unicef, Economic Development, Economic Issues, Hunger

  Below, eight leaders in the fight against hunger offer up food crisis action plans, and long term ideas for how to end famine and bolster farming.

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• World Aid Agencies Faulted in Food Crisis

  Published: May 19, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: World, Aid, Agencies, Faulted, Food, Crisis, Paul Collier, United Nations World Food Programme, United States, The World Bank Group, Africa, Abdoulaye Wade, Jacques Diouf, Europe, Food And Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations, Senegal, Ban Ki Moon, C Peter Ti

  UNITED NATIONS -- Buffeted by food riots at home, Senegal's president, Abdoulaye Wade, this month lashed out at a distant culprit: The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, which he slammed as a wasteful "bottomless pit of money" that should be abolished for failing to help increase global food...

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• Afghanistan Adds Hunger to Its Worries

  Published: May 25, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Afghanistan, Adds, Hunger, Its, Worries, Kabul, Pakistan, Abdul Wahab, Hamid Karzai, Tekeste Tekie, Mohammed Anwar, Al Qaeda, Australia, Canada, Food And Agriculture Organization Of The United Nations, Kazakhstan, Nato, The Taliban, United Nations World Food Programme

  KABUL, May 20 -- By 7 a.m., the bakers of Sang Tarashi Street have been hard at work for hours, shaping globs of dough, slapping them into a hot clay oven and flipping them out at just the right second. A stack of fresh flat bread called naan sits invitingly by the window, and the familiar mornin...

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• Growing Food Crisis Strains U.N.

  Published: May 25, 2008, 12:00 am

  Tags: Growing, Food, Crisis, Strains, U N, United Nations, Haiti, United Nations World Food Programme, Afghanistan, Phil Dobie, Somalia, Aleem Siddique, Hedi Annabi, Jeffrey D Sachs, John Holmes, Nairobi, Kenya, Darfur, David Nabarro, Kandahar, Nancy Roman, Port Au Prince, Bolivia

  UNITED NATIONS -- For four years, U.N. peacekeepers have protected Haiti's fragile government from attacks by street gangs, drug lords and political agitators. But they were no match for a bowl of rice that has doubled in price during the past year.

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