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LONDON -- Russia on Monday halted a breakthrough wartime deal that allowed grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat and high food prices have pushed more people into poverty.
Russia has suspended a wartime deal designed to move grain from Ukraine to parts of the world where millions are going hungry
The US-led United Nations Command is trying to secure the release of an unidentified American soldier who entered North Korea from the South Korean side of a border village. It’s not immediately clear what motivated the soldier to cross into North Korea during a time of high tensions as the pace of both the North’s weapons demonstrations and US-South Korean joint military training have intensified in a cycle of tit-for-tat.
Photo (Russian Presidential Press Service via AP) LONDON (AP) — Russia
The grain deal between Ukraine and Russia has been described as a “lifeline for the 79 countries and 349 million people on the frontlines of food insecurity”.