In a recent statement, the United Nation’s World Food Programme (WFP) announced that skyrocketing food prices is putting unbearable pressure on the world’s poorest. With no respite to high prices in sight, the UN is cautioning that an additional 100m people are in danger of going hungry.
On his first papal tour of South America, Pope Benedict XVI ingratiated himself to his hosts by… well, speaking his mind. From IntelDaily.com:
“Christianity was not imposed by a foreign culture,” said Ratzinger in Aparecida, Brazil. He was ignoring the colonial relationship of the European powers to the Americas that was based on stealing the wealth [...]
A looming energy crisis has Boliva, Argentina and Brazil in negotiations.
Drug traffickers in Mexico City attempt to car bomb police officials.
Fidel Castro announces his resignation , ending the longest uninterrupted reign of any modern world leader. Fidel’s Cuba in Facts & Figures .
Bolivia experiences massive floods leaving 48,000 homeless and officials fearing that their provincial [...]
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