Police use water canon and tear gas to disperse the protesters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Saturday, July … [+] 9, 2022. Sri Lankan protesters demanding that President Gotabaya Rajapaksa resign force...
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Russia’s New Economic Policy: Famine, Looting And Stealing?
A wheat field at a farm in southern Ukraine’s Odessa region, on May 22, 2022. (Photo by GENYA … [+] SAVILOV/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images In the 1920s, despair prompted Soviet...
Skirting Russian Black Sea Blockade To Feed The World’s Hungriest Is Mission Of Yemen’s Biggest Company
Yemen’s civil war has killed hundreds of thousands and left many of the survivors without enough to eat. Now, Russia’s blockade of Ukraine’s food exports has made it even harder for the world’s hungri...
Retail Stocks Rebound But ‘Feast Or Famine Environment’ May Persist Amid Shift In Consumer Spending, Experts Warn
Topline The retail sector has been hard-hit by a selloff in recent weeks amid warnings from major companies that surging inflation has impacted profits, and despite a rebound on Wednesday, experts pre...
Palestinians Could Run Out Of Wheat Reserves In Three Weeks In Ripple Effect Of Ukraine War
A Palestinian volunteer cook distributes food prepared with ingredients obtained from donors, to help needy families in an impoverished neighborhood in Gaza City in January 2021. AFP via Getty Images ...
White House is worried about famine overseas
The Biden administration is worried Russia’s invasion of Ukraine will cause famine in parts of the world, White House Council of Economic Advisers Chair Cecilia Rouse told CNBC on Friday. In an ...