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Yaks, Helicopters Race Against Time to Feed Nepal Earthquake Survivors
Eleven days after a devastating earthquake rocked Nepal, UN officials are scrambling to get aid to remote mountain regions, deploying yaks, goats and old Russian helicopters to carry rice and high-energy biscuits to 1.4 million hungry people.
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World's hungry population decreases but remains large
The number of undernourished people in the world decreased this year for the first time in 15 years, but the level remains higher than before the 2008 food crisis, and the volatile state of prices gives cause for unease, senior United Nations officials said Tuesday. The number of hungry people fell to 925 million from the record high of 1.02 billio...
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Yaks, Helicopters Race Against Time to Feed Nepal Earthquake Survivors
Eleven days after a devastating earthquake rocked Nepal, UN officials are scrambling to get aid to remote mountain regions, deploying yaks, goats and old Russian helicopters to carry rice and high-energy biscuits to 1.4 million hungry people.
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World's hungry population decreases but remains large
The number of undernourished people in the world decreased this year for the first time in 15 years, but the level remains higher than before the 2008 food crisis, and the volatile state of prices gives cause for unease, senior United Nations officials said Tuesday. The number of hungry people fell to 925 million from the record high of 1.02 billio...
