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Russia is using missiles designed for high-value targets like warships and airfields to hit Ukraine's grain exports, UK says
Russia is "using its most valuable weaponry to target Ukrainian agriculture and hurt global food ma…
Sinéad Baker
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Ukrainian children as young as 4 months old are being forcibly taken to Russia. Officials don't know what is happening to them.
Reports from international watchdogs indicate that once in Russia, Ukrainian children taken from th…
Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert
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A 91-year-old Ukrainian woman who fled Russians twice in her lifetime cursed 'Putin's bastards' for ruining her final years
Kateryna Lihusha, who died this year in Poland, first fled her homeland 90 years ago. Her story exe…
Erin Snodgrass
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A restaurant fell foul of China's food-waste laws by offering free meals to anyone who could eat 108 dumplings, says report
Local authorities are investigating if a restaurant in China broke food-waste laws by offering free…
Joshua Zitser
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The coronavirus could double severe hunger around the world to 265 million people without 'swift action,' a UN report warns
The warning "is maybe the most grim I have seen the World Food Programme issue in my 12 years here,…
Isaac Scher
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Yuan Longping, one of China's greatest heroes, is dead at 90. Here's how he saved millions of people during the country's deadly famine crisis in the 1960s.
Longping developed the world's first high-yield hybrid rice strain, which produced 20% more rice pe…
Neal Freyman, Morning Brew
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A massive economic crisis and the coronavirus pandemic are pushing Lebanon towards a famine
There are estimates from the World Bank that 75% of the country's population could end up living in…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Yemeni American activists are launching a hunger strike to demand an end to Yemen's 6-year civil war: 'They're no longer on the brink of it, they are in famine.'
"The world has just kind of been desensitized ... they just feel like this is so normal, but this i…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Will Saudi-Iran accord have a domino effect and stabilize the Middle East?
The Chinese-brokered landmark accord between two countries that were bitter rivals for years may ha…
ANI
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Kim Jong Un digitally erased an actor he doesn't like from the re-run of a popular North Korean TV show
The "erased" actor is rumored to have had been a playboy with ties to Kim Jong Un's uncle, who the …
Mia Jankowicz
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A North Korean defector says she and others like her are struggling to survive in the South: 'I want to go back and die there — South Korea is as suffocating as the North'
The North Korean woman, who could only escape with one of her sons, said her eldest son was beaten …
Matthew Loh
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World could face multiple famines of biblical proportions due to COVID-19: UN body
"While dealing with a COVID-19 pandemic, we are also on the brink of a hunger pandemic," David Beas…
PTI
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Sweden has recorded its highest death toll since a famine swept through the country 150 years ago
Sweden recorded 51,405 deaths from January to June — its highest recorded death toll in the first h…
Adam Payne
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China's birth rate continues to fall as women resist 3-child policy
A recent report has shown that even as the Chinese Communist Party offers young newlyweds 30 days o…
ANI
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The body collectors recovering Ukraine's war dead
In the year since Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, tens of thousands of troops and…
Katie Livingstone
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A guide to climate buzzwords and what they say about corporate promises
Jargon like "carbon neutral," "net zero," and "carbon negative" is confusing. Insider unpacked when…
Catherine Boudreau
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It's official: China's population is shrinking for the first time in 60 years
The decline heralds a deepening demographic crisis for China, as the country fears its working-age …
Matthew Loh
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Ukrainian President Zelenskyy compares Russian invasion to Stalin-era genocide: 'They want to destroy us again'
"They blocked the export of our food. They put the world on the brink of starvation. They provoked …
Katie Balevic
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A 2009 tweet in which Ellen DeGeneres says she made an employee 'cry like a baby' resurfaces online amid allegations that the show has a 'toxic' culture
"I made one of my employees cry like a baby on today's show. Honestly, it felt good," DeGeneres' tw…
Libby Torres
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North Korea's leader is tapping his own private food reserve to feed the country, and it could be a worrying sign
"It reflects the perfect storm of economic stresses that North Korea is suffering right now," a for…