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Castro warns Cubans to brace for shortages
World

Castro warns Cubans to brace for shortages

HAVANA (AP) — Communist Party leader Raúl Castro warned Cubans on Wednesday that they should brace for worsening shortages due…
Maduro says deal reached with Red Cross to send Venezuela aid
World

Maduro says deal reached with Red Cross to send Venezuela aid

Embattled Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced an agreement Wednesday with the International Committee of the Red Cross to bring humanitarian…
Syrian food crisis deepens as war chokes farming
Middle East

Syrian food crisis deepens as war chokes farming

Syria's war has destroyed agricultural infrastructure and fractured the state system that provides farmers with seeds and buys their crops,…
Egypt to ban rice exports from April 4 amid shortages
Business

Egypt to ban rice exports from April 4 amid shortages

Egypt will ban rice exports from April 4 in order to preserve stocks for the local market and to combat…
2.6 million Afghans at risk of hunger from drought
World

2.6 million Afghans at risk of hunger from drought

Zara, an Afghan mother of seven, doesn't know what to tell her children when they ask about dinner. "I simply…
Four killed in fights over gas cylinders, many injured in fights over bread
Egypt

Four killed in fights over gas cylinders, many injured in fights over bread

Several areas in Cairo and Giza witnessed an escalating gas crisis because gas cylinders allocated by the Ministry of Petroleum…
Man killed in Naga Hammadi bread line
Business

Man killed in Naga Hammadi bread line

A young man was killed on Sunday in a fight over a loaf of bread in front of a bakery…
Rice, poultry to be imported amid shortages
Business

Rice, poultry to be imported amid shortages

The state-run General Authority for the Supply of Commodities (GASC) is currently seeking tenders for the purchase of 70,000 metric…
Extra foodstuffs to be imported for Ramadan
Business

Extra foodstuffs to be imported for Ramadan

To offset the usual food shortages experienced during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan--which this year will begin in August--the…
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