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Fact Sheet: Understanding Global Hunger
Hunger is not having enough nutritious food. To end global hunger, nutritious food needs to be affordable and available to everyone. Learn about the meaning, causes, and solutions to global hunger.
Global Hunger: Children
Fact Sheet: Child Malnutrition
Adequate nutrition in the first 1000 days of a child’s life is vital for proper brain development. Malnutrition can have long-term impacts on a child’s life, including their ability to learn in school and grow properly.
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United States finds $29 billion of Libyan assets in one bank—freezes them
by Robert O'Harrow Jr., James V. Grimaldi and Brady Dennis Washington Post March 24, 2011
The Treasury Department team had been working nonstop on a plan to freeze Libyan assets in U.S. banks, hoping they might snare $100 million or more and prevent Moammar Gaddafi from tapping it as he unleashed deadly attacks against protesters who wanted him gone....
Thousands march to protest Syria killings
by New York Times March 24, 2011
Syria’s repressive leadership came under unexpectedly heavy pressure on Thursday as thousands of angry demonstrators massed again in the southern city of Dara’a, demanding democratic reform and protesting the deaths of more than a dozen people shot by security forces in the past week....
Muslim Brotherhood is rising force in new Egypt
by Michael Slackman New York Times March 24, 2011
CAIRO — In post-revolutionary Egypt, where hope and confusion collide in the daily struggle to build a new nation, religion has emerged as a powerful political force, following an uprising that was based on secular ideals. The Muslim Brotherhood, an Islamist group once banned by the state, is at t...
Western forces attack Libya, establish no-fly zone; Arab League objects to severity of attack
by Al Jazeera March 20, 2011
Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, has said the military operation in Libya called for by the UN Security Council is not aimed at regime change - adding that a "stalemate" could well exist, leaving Muammar Gaddafi in power....
Egypt approves constitutional changes by overwhelming vote
by Al Jazeera March 20, 2011
Egyptians have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a package of constitutional amendments, according to official results released on Sunday evenin...
Obama demands pullback of Libyan troops; Tripoli declares ceasefire
by William Branigin, Liz Sly and Sudarsan Raghavan Washington Post March 18, 2011
President Obama demanded Friday that the Libyan government move beyond its declaration of a cease-fire in response to a U.N. Security Council resolution and pull its troops back from cities recently captured from rebels....
Battle for control rages in Libya—Gaddafi forces inch towards opposition stronghold of Benghazi while wrangle over UN decision on no-fly zone crawls
by Al Jazeera March 15, 2011
Muammar Gaddafi, the Libyan leader's forces and rebels are fighting for control of the oil town of Brega as the battle for eastern Libya edged closer to Benghazi, the so-called "rebel capital" in the east....
Libyan forces rout rebels as West’s effort for no-flight zone stalls
by Anthony Shadid New York Times March 15, 2011
AJDABIYA, Libya — Behind tanks, heavy artillery and airstrikes, forces loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi routed a ragtag army of insurgents and would-be revolutionaries who were holding the last defensive line before the rebel capital of Benghazi on Tuesday....
Surge in drug violence puts prosperity at risk in Monterrey, Mexico’s richest city
by Nick Miroff and and William Booth Washington Post March 10, 2011
When American baseball executives were looking for a place to move the struggling Montreal Expos franchise five years ago, Mexican investors brought them here, to this booming metropolis two hours south of the Texas border....
Egyptians desperate for democracy, but wary of US assistance in part because most past US aid has gone to the military and been interpreted by Egyptia...
by Kathy Lally and Mary Beth Sheridan Washington Post March 5, 2011
CAIRO - For years, the United States tried to offer democracy-building help here but was thwarted by an Egyptian government that was committed to the opposite....
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