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Europe bans Russian diesel, other oil products over Ukraine

Breaking News JAMES ROBERTO - February 6, 2023

FRANKFURT Germany: In an effort to reduce its reliance on Moscow for energy and as retaliation for its invasion of Ukraine. Europe put a...

UK inflation hits a 30-year high of 6.2% as Sunak readies response.

Breaking News ERIKA JOHNSON - March 23, 2022

LONDON UK: British inflation shot up faster than expected last month to hit a new 30-year high. Worsening a historic squeeze on household finances...

‘No city anymore’: Mariupol survivors take train to safety.

Breaking News Ariel Antonio - March 20, 2022

LVIV, Ukraine: The heat on the train was as thick as the anxiety. Ukrainian survivors of one of the most brutal sieges in modern...

Asia stocks extend losses as Ukraine war, China’s Covid-19 surge hit sentiment

Breaking News ERIKA JOHNSON - March 16, 2022

SYDNEY: Asian stocks were in the red on Tuesday as surging COVID-19 cases in China hit the confidence of investors. Who is already worried...

War censorship exposes Putin’s leaky internet controls

Breaking News JAMES ROBERTO - March 15, 2022

BOSTON: Long before waging war on Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin was working to make Russia’s internet a powerful tool of surveillance and social control...

Refugee exodus reaches 2.8 million as Russian strikes hit west Ukraine

Breaking News ERIKA JOHNSON - March 15, 2022

KRAKOW, Poland/ISACCEA, Romania: Thousands of people crossed into eastern Europe after Russia attacked a Ukrainian base near the border with NATO-member Poland. The number of...

Tens of thousands protest in Berlin against the war in Ukraine

Breaking News Ariel Antonio - March 14, 2022

BERLIN, March 13: Up to 30,000 men, women, and children joined an anti-war demonstration in central Berlin on Sunday, with many waving Ukrainian flags...

ROME: U.N. food agency warned that Poorer countries in northern Africa, Asia, and the Middle East risk suffering significant food insecurity because of Russia’s war in Ukraine. The conflict is poised to drive up already soaring food prices in much of the world. Ukraine and Russia, account for one-third of global grain exports. With the conflict’s intensity “the likely disruptions to agricultural activities of these two major exporters of staple commodities could seriously escalate food insecurity globally. When international food and input prices are already high and vulnerable,” said Qu Dongyu, director-general of the Rome-based Food and Agriculture Organization. The U.N. agency, known as FAO, also noted that Russia is the lead producer of fertilizer, and a key fertilizer component — urea — has jumped more than threefold in price in the last 12 months. The United States, Argentina, and other wheat-producing nations are likely to limit exports as governments seek to ensure domestic supply, he said. Adding to the pressure, countries that depend on Russian and Ukrainian wheat are likely to increase imports. Egypt, Turkey, Bangladesh, and Iran buy 60% of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine. Also heavily reliant are Lebanon, Tunisia, Yemen, Libya, and Pakistan. In Libya, where civil war has ground on for years, the latest price increases for food staples have people worried. The U.N. agency said its simulations suggest that “the global number of undernourished people could increase by 8 to 13 million” in 2022-2023. Particularly in Asia, sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and North Africa. With shortfalls in grain and sunflower seed exports by Ukraine and Russia, “worryingly, the resulting global supply gap could push up international food and feed prices by 8 to 22% above their already elevated levels,” the FAO’s report warned. The COVID-19 pandemic already had a major impact on global food security. Last year, global prices of wheat and barley rose 31%, and rapeseed and sunflower oil prices jumped by more than 60%. Wheat prices have surged more than 50% since a week before the invasion.

War in Ukraine to hurt poor nations importing grain: UN warned.

Breaking News ERIKA JOHNSON - March 12, 2022

ROME: U.N. food agency warned that Poorer countries in northern Africa, Asia, and the Middle East risk suffering significant food insecurity because of Russia’s...