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Cost hampers drive to double number of children treated for starvation: hunger experts
By Alex Whiting ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A drive to give six million severely malnourished children life-saving treatment every year by 2020 – twice the current number – will only succeed if governments prioritize it alongside other killers and treatment costs are cut, hunger experts said on Thursday. The number of children treated for severe…
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U.N. resumes Syria aid delivery after attack
By Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations appealed to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebel groups on Thursday to allow aid convoys to enter eastern Aleppo as U.N. relief operations in Syria resumed after a 48-hour suspension due to a deadly attack. A U.N. convoy loaded with medical and other…
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Spain: US mining exec, 2 others fined for water pollution
MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has convicted and fined an American mining company executive and two other people for environmental offences committed by a Spanish copper mining firm.