food crisis

Russia halted an unprecedented wartime deal on Monday that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices have pushed more people into poverty.…

UNITED NATIONS: Without billions of dollars more to feed millions of hungry people, the world will see mass migration, destabilised countries, and starving children and adults in the next 12 to 18 months, the head of the Nobel prize-winning…

COLOMBO: The United Nations Tuesday warned of a worsening food crisisin bankrupt Sri Lanka and said the number of people needing urgent humanitarian help had doubled to 3.4 million. UN agencies had estimated in June that 1.7 million out…

Last Updated: November 08, 2022, 21:02 ISTMonths of protests against high prices and shortages of food and medicines led to the toppling of president Gotabaya Rajapaksa in July. (File photo/Reuters)UN agencies had estimated in June that 1.7…

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Four more ships carrying agricultural cargo held up by the war in Ukraine received authorization Sunday to leave the country’s Black Sea coast as analysts warned that Russia was moving troops and equipment in the direction of the…

A ship carrying grain left the Ukrainian port of Odesa for Lebanon on Monday under a safe passage agreement, Ukrainian and Turkish officials said, the first departure since the Russian invasion blocked shipping through the Black Sea five…

Russian missiles hit Ukraine’s Black Sea port of Odesa hours after Moscow and Kyiv signed deals to allow grain exports to resume from there. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry denounced Saturday’s strike as “spit in the face” of Turkey…

<!-- -->Sri Lanka has been wracked by weeks of turmoil triggered by severe shortages of food and fuel. (File)Bangkok: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Sunday that Russia's restriction on Ukrainian grain exports may have…

His torso is pierced with several arrows, but still there's something cheerful about him: Tied to a tree and wearing a simple loin cloth, St. Sebastian smiles down at you, bleeding, from a mural painted on the wall of a building in the…