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UN warns of global food crisis, with 325m close to starvation

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DAVOS • Another dire warning went out at the World Economic Forum (WEF) meet in Davos, Switzerland.
After warnings about the world facing its worst energy crisis since the 1970s, the exe-cutive director of the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) said on Monday that the world faces the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II.
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