World
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Region
8/15/2022 8:04:50 PM
An Israeli occupation military court on Monday rejected an appeal for release by a Palestinian prisoner whose health is deteriorating as he continues a 165-day hunger strike to protest being held without charge or trial, his lawyer said.
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World
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Region
8/11/2022 2:54:04 PM
A Palestinian prisoner on a protracted hunger strike was moved Thursday from an Israeli jail to a hospital because of his worsening condition, the prisoner's wife said.
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Sports
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World
8/5/2022 6:52:49 PM
Presented to around 60,000 Barcelona fans at the Camp Nou stadium on Friday, Poland striker Robert Lewandowski was confident he still had the hunger and ability at 33 years old to help the Catalan club revive its fortunes.
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World
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Region
8/3/2022 7:23:24 PM
The United Nations painted a grim picture for Sudan's humanitarian situation, saying Wednesday that almost a quarter of the country's population was inching toward starvation amid a dire shortage of funding.
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Sports
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World
7/20/2022 9:16:30 PM
Robert Lewandowski was officially unveiled as a Barcelona player on Wednesday and insisted he still has the hunger to continue his incredible goalscoring exploits.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
7/13/2022 4:03:48 PM
The global economic outlook has "darkened significantly" and could deteriorate further, the IMF's managing director said Wednesday, citing Russia's war in Ukraine and the rapid inflation it has caused, threatening widespread hunger and poverty.
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War in Ukraine
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Diplomacy
7/13/2022 2:37:17 PM
Russia and Ukraine met UN and Turkish officials on Wednesday in a bid to break a months-long impasse over grain exports that has seen food prices soar and millions face hunger.
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World
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International
7/6/2022 7:32:08 PM
World hunger rose in 2021, with around 2.3 billion people facing moderate or severe difficulty obtaining enough to eat -- and that was before the Ukraine war, which has sparked increases in the cost of grain, fertilizer and energy, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday.
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World
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Africa
7/5/2022 1:03:11 PM
More than two dozen children have died of hunger in the past two months in a single hospital in Somalia. Dr. Yahye Abdi Garun has watched their emaciated parents stumble in from rural areas gripped by the driest drought in decades. And yet no humanitarian aid arrives.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
6/20/2022 6:18:50 PM
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday that Africa was "a hostage" of Russia's war on Ukraine which has spurred global food shortages and famine fears across the African continent.
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
6/18/2022 10:30:38 AM
Russian hostilities in Ukraine is preventing grain from leaving the ``breadbasket of the world`` and making food more expensive across the globe, threatening to worsen shortages, hunger and political instability in developing countries.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
6/16/2022 2:16:30 PM
Russia's war in Ukraine has pushed global displacement numbers above 100 million for the first time, and the UN warns the resulting hunger crisis could force many more to flee their homes.
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World
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Africa
6/14/2022 11:45:15 AM
In one of Uganda's poorest and most lawless regions, anxious mothers clutch bone-thin infants in a malnutrition ward, terrified their child could be next to succumb to starvation in Karamoja.
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War in Ukraine
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Humanitarian
6/13/2022 10:11:16 PM
The United Nations on Monday begged world trade ministers meeting at the WTO not to impose export restrictions on food for humanitarian purposes, amid a food security crisis.
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Egypt
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Courts & Law
6/9/2022 6:11:29 PM
The Egyptian Ministry of Interior said on Thursday that it has submitted to the prosecution footage recorded from inside the prison cell of activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah that disproves "the false claim of the imprisoned activist’s hunger strike."
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War in Ukraine
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Economy
6/8/2022 12:41:37 PM
Italian Foreign Minister Luigi Di Maio warned Wednesday that millions of people could die of hunger unless Russia unblocked Ukraine's ports, as he hosted talks among Mediterranean ministers on the food crisis.
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World
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International
6/5/2022 11:32:25 AM
Five European Union nations on the Mediterranean who fear possible waves of refugees driven by hunger out of Africa called Saturday for an end to the EU's ``voluntary'' solidarity on migrants and a better way to redistribute the burden of caring for them.
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World
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Africa
5/30/2022 10:15:00 AM
It now costs Ayan Hassan Abdirahman twice as much as it did just a few months ago to buy the wheat flour she uses to make breakfast each day for her 11 children in Somalia's capital.
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World
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International
5/26/2022 7:24:52 PM
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz expressed hopes Thursday for global cooperation on climate change, hunger and war, while dozens of climate activists demonstrated in the Swiss town of Davos as a meeting of global elites ended with many words but little concrete action to solve the world's most pressing crises.
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Business
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Economy
5/25/2022 3:42:35 PM
From soaring debt to the Ukraine war's impact on food and energy prices, the world is facing "multiple crises", the head of the United Nations Development Programme told AFP.
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