ROME— As the world marks the International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, around 1.6 billion tonnes of the primary product equivalent is wasted, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) of the United Nations estimates.Of this number, 1.3 b…
U.N. economists warn the monetary and fiscal policies of advanced economies risk plunging the world into a recession worse than the financial crisis of 2008. UNCTAD, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development has issued its annual Trade and…
The United Nations humanitarian office on Somalia says the country is still teetering on the edge of famine.Ian Ridley, head of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, or OCHA, in Somalia says there are almost eight million people…
MADRID,— Spanish coastguards have recovered a migrant boat off one of Spain’s Canary Islands, rescuing a sole survivor and retrieving the bodies of four deceased people.A Spanish NGO which works with illegal migrants said the boat was carrying 34 migra…
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