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Global hunger crisis pushes one child into severe malnutrition every minute: UNICEF

Hunger crisis pushes one child into severe malnutrition every minute: UNICEF

The UN agency Thursday said the number of desperately hungry children suffering from severe wasting continued to grow

A combine harvests wheat in a field near the village of Kamennobrodskaya in Stavropol region, Russia on 4 July 2019

Turkey to host Ukraine grain talks next week

The initiative has been backed by the European Union but received a cautious response from Kyiv, which is looking for ways to export the grain by land, without talking to the Russians

World Trade Organization Director-General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala (C-L) applauds next to conference chair Timur Suleimenov (2nd R) after a closing session of a World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference at the WTO headquarters in Geneva on early 17 June, 2022

WTO strikes landmark deals on fishing, food insecurity and Covid vaccine

WTO director-general Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said trade ministers had struck an “unprecedented package of deliverables” which would make a difference to people’s lives across the planet

A woman moves a gas tank as she stands in line to buy another tank near a distributor, amid the country's economic crisis, in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 1 June 2022

Sri Lanka gives public workers extra day off to grow food

Prime Minister Wickremesinghe said this month Sri Lanka needed at least $5 billion to meet essential imports for the rest of the year

12th WTO Ministerial Conference

12th WTO Ministerial Conference Bangladesh pushes for stopping sudden ban on export of food products

Bangladeshi Commerce Minister Tipu Munshi in his opening speech urged the global leaders and WTO not to put any ban on export of food items for any reasons so that any country faces any food crisis

Consumers' que before a TCB truck in Dhaka as food prices continue to rise

Ukraine war risks another 11-19m hungry people over next year: FAO

The FAO also said in a report on Thursday that spiralling costs for farm inputs like fertiliser could deter growers from expanding production and worsen food security in poorer countries facing ...

A combine harvests wheat in a field near the village of Kamennobrodskaya in Stavropol region, Russia on 4 July 2019

Russian-held Ukraine region scheming to sell grain to North America

Russia has seized large parts of Ukraine’s coast, blocking farm exports and driving up the cost of grain. Moscow blames the food crisis on sanctions restricting its own grain exports

Smoke and dirt rise in the city of Severodonetsk during fighting between Ukrainian and Russian troops at the eastern Ukrainian region of Donbas on 2 June 2022

Russia using ‘all its power’ to capture eastern city: Ukraine

Tens of thousands of people have been killed, millions forced to flee and towns turned into rubble since Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an all-out assault on his pro-Western neighbour on 24 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin meets with Senegal's President and Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Macky Sall in Sochi on 3 June 2022

Food shortage African Union head ‘reassured’ after talks with Putin

Cereal prices in Africa, the world’s poorest continent, have surged because of the slump in exports from Ukraine, sharpening the impact of conflict and climate change and sparking fears of social ...

This handout picture taken and released by Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on 3 June 2022 shows Ukrainia's President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) presenting words to a wounded Ukrainian serviceman at the Shalimov National Institute of Surgery and Transplantology in Kyiv, on the 100th day of the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Zelensky vows victory as 100 days of war pass in Ukraine

Putin’s troops are now concentrating in the Donbas, in the east, where some of the fiercest fighting is centred on the industrial hub city of Severodonetsk

People work in a rice processing mill in Munshiganj, Bangladesh on 4 January 2021

Govt starts nationwide drive against rice hoarders

The decision was taken at a meeting held at the food ministry at secretariat on Tuesday with Food Minister Sadhan Chandra Majumder in the chair

Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) talks with Turkey`s President Erdogan as they pose for a group picture during the G20 Summit in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, China on 4 September 2016

Russia can export food if sanctions are lifted, Putin confirms Erdogan

Putin and Erdogan discussed the situation in Ukraine with the focus on providing safe navigation in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov

In this photograph taken on April 15, 2017, an Indian farmer harvests wheat in a field on the outskirts of Alwar in the western state of Rajasthan

Bangladesh to cancel wheat import tender

Bangladesh imported around seven million tonnes of wheat in 2021, with 65 per cent coming from neighbouring India

Arrest

Restaurant owner arrested as 9 judges among 18 fall sick after having iftar

Police arrested the three and sent them to jail through the court on Thursday evening

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina addresses a meeting of PMO officials at her office on 11 April 2022

PM Hasina expresses frustration for not having a strong opposition

After two waves of Covid-19 pandemic, now the Russia-Ukraine war may expose the world to another crisis, prime minister’s press secretary Ihsanul Karim quoted her as saying

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