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ABS, Yemen (AP) – Boy twins lie on a bed of woven palm leaves in a remote camp for displaced people in northern Yemen, their collar bones and ribs visible. They were crying loudly, as if in pain, as if they were fed up with no pain, no disease, but …

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The head of the World Food Program says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the UN agency a spotlight and a megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year, and without billions of dollars There will be a …

UNITED NATIONS – The head of the World Food Program says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the UN agency a spotlight and a megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year, and without billions of dollars There is a drought. “ …

Anna Noise, a retired municipal worker in western Venezuela, says her diet often consists of just a few corn-flour pancakes, known as airspace. Even when she has the money to buy groceries at Maracaibo’s teaming flea market, she said that “instead of quality food they sell waste like animal hide …

A stifling summer heat wave will take over an unusually vast swath of the nation this week. 270 million people, representing 84% of the continental US population, will see peaks above 90 degrees for at least one day this week, and for most, it will be several days. At one …