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The U.N. and the U.S. suspended food aid to Tigray in March after the finding of a plot to steal donated wheat intended for the needy.

Hunger has killed at least 700 people in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region in recent weeks after the United States and the United Nations paused food aid, local officials and researchers say.

Other News News: Indian-origin British satellite industry expert Aarti Holla-Maini has been appointed by the United Nations secretary general as director of the United.

At least 700 Ethiopians in northern Tigray have recently died from hunger as the US and UN discontinued food supplies.

NAIROBI, Kenya -- An Orthodox Christian priest, Tesfa Kiros Meresfa begs door-to-door for food along with countless others recovering from a two-year war in northern Ethiopia that starved his people. To his dismay, urgently needed grain and oil have disappeared again for millions caught in a standoff between Ethiopias government, the United States and United Nations over what U.S. officials say may be the biggest theft of food aid on record.

United Nations aid transited Friday from regime-controlled northwest Syria to opposition-held areas for the first time since a devastating February earthquake, an AFP correspondent and a humanitarian official said. The correspondent saw the 10-truck convoy reach opposition-held Al-Nayrab in Idlib province from the direction of regime-held Saraqib, headed for storage facilities near the Turkish border. The last such convoy was in January, according to a humanitarian official in Idlib who requeste...

In war-torn Sudan, a Blue Nile river town has become a relative sanctuary from the fighting, but survivors living there endure overcrowding, widespread disease and creeping hunger. One of the internally displaced people who made it to Wad Madani, a 200-kilometre (125 miles) drive southeast of the embattled capital Khartoum, was mother-of-three Fatima Mohammed. Then, 10 days ago, she succumbed to illness, leaving behind three children -- Ithar, 11, Dalal, nine, and Ibrahim, seven -- who now large...

London, United Kingdom: Foreign donors have pledged 60 billion euros ($66 billion) of new financial support for Ukraine, the UK said Thursday, as an international conference aimed at funding the war-ravaged countrys reconstruction closed.

The newest round of budget cuts in the Coupeville School District affects paraeducators.

The newest round of budget cuts in the Coupeville School District affects paraeducators.