High food prices add 50 million people to hunger: FAO
The number of hungry people increased by about 50
million in 2007 as a result of high food prices, Food and
Agriculture Organisation (FAO) head Jacques Diouf said here
Thursday.
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Spiralling food prices on G8 summit agenda
Leaders of the Group of Eight industrial nations
meet in Japan on July 7-9 amid concerns about spiralling food costs
around the globe.
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Venezuela calls on OPEC to subsidize oil for poor countries
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez Thursday called
on the OPEC cartel to absorb the costs of the oil import bills of
the world’s 50 poorest countries, predicting that the price of crude
is “going to continue rising.”
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Transgender man gives birth
Thomas Beatie, who was born a woman but after
surgery and hormone treatment lives as a man, has given birth to a
girl at an Oregon hospital, People magazine reported yesterday.
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