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The article presents warning from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification global initiative about rising deaths and malnutrition in Gaza due to severe food shortage and imminent famine. It informs about the talks on a cease-fire and release of hostages held by the Hamas militant group. It suggests the need for more humanitarian supplies to Gaza and reports the Israeli military's raid on the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza following intelligence that Hamas operates from the facilities.

The article focuses on the dire conditions faced by hundreds of thousands of people fleeing Rafah in southern Gaza due to Israel's invasion, encountering shortages of food, water, and basic amenities in their new shelters, with many unable to afford transportation to safer locations.

The article reports on a discussions among diplomats from the U.S., Egypt and Middle Eastern countries to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza as the volume of humanitarian aid at the border increases. Topics discussed include the humanitarian crisis occurring in Gaza, the decision of the Israeli government to restore water in Gaza, statements from Israeli Prime Minister Benhamin Netanyahu about the terrorist group Hamas, and the Israeli government's evacuation order to citizens of Gaza.

The article focuses on new data from the Census Bureau revealing that approximately 2.5 million people were forced from their homes in the U.S. by weather-related disasters in 2023, highlighting challenges faced by those displaced, including food shortages, and potential fraud encounters.

The article focuses on the impact of climate change on food security in India, specifically the tomato shortage and rising prices due to erratic weather patterns. It highlights how extreme weather events and climate change are affecting food supplies and prices, leading to concerns about food security and vulnerability among the population.

The article focuses on Russia's withdrawal from a grain export agreement with Ukraine through the Black Sea, citing the need for concessions on its own agricultural exports. Topics include the significance of the Black Sea Grain Initiative for global food prices and shortages, Russia's complaints about the agreement, and the impact of Russia's decision on global markets and food security.

The article focuses on the severe impact of climate change and droughts in East Africa.

The article focuses on the tensions arising from the entry of Ukrainian grain into European markets, causing concerns for local farmers and prompting some countries to block imports, while the European Union considers a temporary ban to address the issue.

The article focuses on the general disintegration of law and order on the island of St. Martin as survivors of Hurricane Irma struggled in the face of severe food and water shortages, and the absence of electricity and phone service. Topics covered include residents complaining of the shortage of food after groups of looters scavenge grocery stores, the response of countries that oversee territories in the region, and the damage left by the storm on the region.

The article discusses the impact that global warming and climate change have on the social conditions and drought-caused suffering in Madagascar, within the context of the U.S. President-elect Donald J. Trump's denial of climate change. The impact that the Southern Africa drought has on food shortages, including in causing related deaths of children, is discussed.

The article discusses a report issued by the United Nations in August 2019 which warns that the exploitation of the world's land and water resources at unprecedented rates, in addition to climate change, is putting humanity's food supply at risk. The report indicates that a half-billion people already live in places turning into desert, and soil is being lost between 10 and 100 times faster than it is forming. Ways of addressing the impending food crisis are also suggested by the report.

The article reports on the support of U.S. President Donald Trump for South Korea's humanitarian aid for North Korea to help alleviate its food shortages, despite North Korea's weapons tests.

The article reports on the power outage for several days in Maracaibo, Venezuela in March 2019 including the looting of stores, the shortage of food, medicine and water and the possible brush fire that destabilized the electrical grid.

The article discusses the national power blackout in Venezuela stalling public transportation, decimating already scarce food supplies, crippling the vital oil industry and threatening the lives of thousands of chronic patients and blamed the opposition and the U.S. for blackout through sabotage.

The article offers insights of several residents of Caracas, Venezuela, on the social conditions and food scarcity in the city including Auristela Donawa, Sunny Balza, and Lisbeth Añez

The article discusses the social conditions of the refugees from places such as Syria who are now living in encampments in Greece, and it mentions the lives of refugee Shiraz Madran and her children at a camp located on an agricultural plain in northern Greece. Food scarcity and the efforts to have asylum applications processed are examined, along with the European Union's decision to place limits on immigration. Turkish-European Union relations are assessed, along with living conditions.

The article reports on the pillaging by Venezuelans that is viewed to reveal the depth of hunger in the country as the nation faces food shortage, causing riots, protests and mass looting.

The article discusses how the Boko Haram Islamist extremist group, which has been carrying out assaults, murders, and terror attacks in places such as Nigeria, has been stealing cows, goats, and other food sources in an effort to alleviate the organization's food supply crisis as of 2016. According to the article, various herdsmen in Nigeria have rerouted cattle drives in order to avoid violence. Emaciated Boko Haram fighters, captive women and children, and hostage taking are examined.

The article discusses the relationship between the avian flu and the supply of turkeys available for food on Thanksgiving Day, including in regard to claims of turkey shortages, the prices of turkeys and farmers' insurance.

The article reports that Afghanistan is facing a drought that is affecting two-thirds of the country and could lead to severe food shortages in the nation.

The article offers information on shortage of butter in supermarkets in Versailles, France and throughout France, citing reference to the importance of butter in the French culture and cooking.

The article discusses climate scientists and historians' discovery of volcanic eruptions' impact on Egypt's food shortages in the Ptolemaic dynasty, the eruption's effect on the fall in the flood levels of Nile river, and the eruption's impact on the ancient economy.

The article offers information on high food cost in Venezuela citing reference to an increase in monthly minimum wage to enhance workers' purchasing power. Topics discussed include heavy increment in inflation rate, protests by people for international food aid to prevent food shortage and early presidential elections, and currency exchange control by the government.

The article reports that North Korea is suffering from worst drought, with fear of worsening food shortages.

The article focuses on the situation of protests in Caracas, Venezuela, anti-government protestors carrying sign boards of 'No More Dictatorship' and clashes between protesters and the police. It also focuses on the crisis marked by food shortages, economic collapse and President of Venezuala Nicolás Maduro fumbling attempts to consolidate authority.

The article focuses on the deployment of violence-prone plainclothes militias to discourage protesters by President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela and mentions issue of severe food shortages in Venezuela and use of eggs and stones by protesters against Maduro.

A photograph is presented depicting some Malawians hit by food shortages in Malawi.

The author discusses the support provided by Venezuela citizens and institutions on the effort to remove Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro from his position due to his leadership that results to the shortage of food, increased violence, and shortages of medicine.

This section offers world news briefs as of September 26, 2015, including the killing by Egyptian security forces of nine members of the Muslim Brotherhood believed to had taken part in a bombing at the Italian Consulate in Cairo in July 2015, the declaration by the World Health Organization (WHO) that polio is no longer endemic in Nigeria, and the warning by the hunger-fighting agency World Food Program of an impending food crisis in Malawi.

The article reflects on the U.S. Food Safety Modernization Act enacted in 2011 which faces delays in issuing rules and shortage of money in 2015.