U.N. warns of catastrophe as hungry people top 1 billion

2009/06/12 09:46:05 @Reuters: International News

ROME (Reuters) - High food prices have pushed another 105 million people into hunger in the first half of 2009, the head of the U.N. World Food Program said Friday, raising the total number of hungry people to over 1 billion. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=4X5PsBKhr3k:wU9Dc8rK3AA:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=4X5PsBKhr3k:wU9Dc8rK3AA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=4X5PsBKhr3k:wU9Dc8rK3AA:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=4X5PsBKhr3k:wU9Dc8rK3AA:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=4X5PsBKhr3k:wU9Dc8rK3AA:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds2.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/4X5PsBKhr3k" height="1" width="1"/
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