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SKorea to send 1st food aid to NKorea in 3 years (AP)

October 25th, 2010

North Korean soldiers march during a massive military parade marking the 65th anniversary of the communist nation's ruling Workers' Party in Pyongyang, North Korea on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2010. This year's celebration comes less than two weeks after Kim Jong Il's re-election to the party's top post and the news that his 20-something son would succeed his father and grandfather as leader. (AP Photo/Vincent Yu)AP - South Korea prepared Monday to send 5,000 tons of rice to flood victims in North Korea in its first humanitarian rice shipment to its communist neighbor since a…

Gitmo’s longest hunger striker now eats some food (AP)

October 5th, 2010

In this photo reviewed by US military officials, a member of the US military mans the guard post before sunrise at Camp Delta, in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in March 2010. The US Supreme Court on Monday threw out a plea by 23 lawyers for Guantanamo Bay detainees to be informed whether conservations by their clients had been subjected to wiretaps.(AFP/File/Paul J. Richards)AP - A Guantanamo prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for more than five years is occasionally eating solid food, but is still underweight and suffering from a…

Riz Khan - Junk food or humanitarian aid?

October 5th, 2010

There are currently an estimated 195 million children suffering from malnutrition around the world, according to the international medical humanitarian organisation Doctors Without Borders. The problem is compounded by the politics…

Machel: Mozambique must tackle broad food crisis (AP)

September 10th, 2010

AP - The widow of independent Mozambique’s first president says the debate over food in her impoverished homeland does not end with the government’s reversal on bread prices.

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Mozambique riots spotlight world food price spike (AP)

September 2nd, 2010

A woman passes nearby burning tyres in a street in Maputo, Thursday Sept. 2, 2010 a day after police opened fire on stone-throwing crowds who were protesting rising prices in this impoverished country. (AP Photo/Nastasya Tay)AP - A few pennies’ increase in the price of a loaf of bread can mean the difference between getting by and going hungry — and erupting in anger —…

2 days of food stretched more than 2 weeks in mine (AP)

August 25th, 2010

Alberto Segovia shows a photograph of his brother Dario Segovia, 48, one of 33 miners trapped in the collapsed San Jose mine, outside the mine in Copiapo, Chile, Tuesday Aug. 24, 2010. The miners, who have been trapped since the shaft they were working in collapsed on Aug. 5, were confirmed to be alive Sunday when they were reached by rescue teams via a small hole through which they could pass messages and see the miners with a camera. The T-shirt reads in Spanish 'We're okay in the shelter all 33,' referring to a hand written message retrieved from the miners on Sunday. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia)AP - Their self-imposed rations were meager: Two spoonfuls of tuna, a sip of milk, a bite of cracker and a morsel of peach every other day.


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Official: Seoul not considering food aid to NKorea (AP)

August 23rd, 2010

In this photo released by Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service, South Korean religious activist Rev. Han Sang-ryol, left, is presented with flowers during a farewell meeting at the Three Charters for National Reunification Memorial Tower in Pyongyang, North Korea, Friday Aug. 20, 2010. Authorities arrested the South Korean religious activist Friday as he passed through the heavily fortified demilitarized zone after an illegal trip to North Korea. U.N. Command spokesman Kim Yong-kyu said South Korean officials took Rev. Han Sang-ryol into custody as he walked through the village of Panmunjom along the border separating the two Koreas. (AP Photo/Korean Central News Agency via Korea News Service) ** JAPAN OUT **AP - South Korea has no intention of resuming its food aid to North Korea, an official said Monday, a day after the ruling party chief questioned whether the assistance…

Dubai camel dairy hopes to milk health food market (AP)

August 21st, 2010

In this Tuesday, July 13, 2010 picture, Dr. Ulrich Wernery checks the health of a camel at the Camelicious farm in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Camel milk has at least three times more vitamin C than a cow's and is considered an alternative for the lactose intolerant. Researchers, meanwhile, have studied possible roles in fighting bacteria, tumors and diabetes, as well as traditional uses such as a treatment for liver disease as part of folk medicine across the camels range from central Asia to North Africa. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)AP - The camels know the drill by heart.


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Meat from cloned cow offspring in UK food chain (AP)

August 3rd, 2010

AP - Meat from the offspring of a cloned cow in the United States entered the British food chain without official authorization, the UK’s Food Standards Agency said Tuesday.

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Surging costs hit food security in poorer nations (AP)

June 6th, 2010

In this photo taken Friday, May 28, 2010, a woman sweeps grain kept for drying near a paddy field in Mayong village, about 50 kilometers (31 miles) east of Gauhati, India. Across the developing world, families from Pakistan to Argentina to Congo are being battered by a double-digit surge in food costs that is fueling political tensions and forcing some to give up eating meat, fruit and even basics such as tomatoes.(AP Photo/Anupam Nath)AP - Families from Pakistan to Argentina to Congo are being battered by surging food prices that are dragging more people into poverty, fueling political tensions and forcing some to…

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