UN may get half of required fund
ROME, Nov 18 (AFP): The UN's World Food Programme warned Tuesday that funding cuts mean it will struggle to feed even a third of the 318 million people facing severe hunger in 2026."Declines in global humanitarian funding are forcing WFP to prioritise food assistance to roughly one third of those...
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Zelensky to visit Turkey today
KYIV, Nov 18 (AFP): Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he will visit Turkey on Wednesday, in a bid to "reinvigorate" peace talks and to restore prisoner-of-war exchanges with Russia.Negotiations to end the war have faltered after three rounds of direct Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul earlier this year yielded no...
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Trump will sell F-35s to Saudi Arabia
WASHINGTON, Nov 18 (AP): President Donald Trump said Monday he will sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia despite some concern within the administration that such a sale could lead to China gaining access to the U.S. technology behind the advanced weapon system.The announcement came on the eve of Saudi...
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Maduro ready to talk 'face to face' with Trump
CARACAS, Nov 18 (AFP): Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Monday he was ready to talk "face to face" with his US counterpart Donald Trump, who hours earlier mentioned possible talks between the two leaders amid soaring military tensions in the Caribbean."This country will continue to be at peace, and in...
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Pope urges stronger action at UN climate summit
BELEM, Nov 18 (Reuters): Pope Leo criticized world governments on Monday for failing so far to slow global warming and called for a stronger response to the threat, as countries at the U.N. climate summit in Brazil's Amazon city of Belem entered the second week of negotiations with a goal...
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