By Leah Douglas (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Agency for International Development will distribute $1 billion in U.S. commodities to countries with high hunger rates, …
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PASSAIC COUNTY, NJ—In a recent community service initiative, troopers from the New Jersey State Police lent their support to the CUMAC Food Pantry in Passaic County, assisting in the organization’s …
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By Samia Nakhoul (Reuters) – People so hungry they break into U.N. warehouses to take whatever they can find. Children terrified of the noise of air strikes. Families using sea …
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Belleville, NJ — Earlier today, officers from the Belleville Police Department took a break from their usual duties to participate in Shoprite’s Help Bag Hunger campaign. In an effort to …
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By Cassandra Garrison EL AGUACATE, Guatemala (Reuters) – A few tortillas and a half bowl of reheated beans were all Maria Concepcion Rodriguez had to feed her six children in …
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By Felix Light GORIS, Armenia (Reuters) – After the village was bombed so hard there was no way to bury the truckloads of dead, he fled with his family and …
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EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, NJ – The Egg Harbor Township Police Department (EHTPD) took part in ShopRite of English Creek’s annual “Help Bag Hunger Day” event on Friday, Sept. 22, contributing …
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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) – There are 745 million more moderately to severely hungry people in the world today than in 2015, and the world is far off track …
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By Aziz El Yaakoubi RIYADH (Reuters) – Hundreds of political prisoners in Bahrain suspended a hunger strike after the government promised to improve prison conditions, rights groups said, as the …
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By Aziz El Yaakoubi DUBAI (Reuters) – Political prisoners on hunger strike in Bahrain have rebuffed government concessions and will extend their protest, raising the stakes in the biggest showdown …
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By Humeyra Pamuk and Simon Lewis WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. permanent resident detained in Iran since 2016 has begun a hunger strike in protest of his exclusion from last …
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TRENTON, NJ – Hunger relief could be a phone call away for many in New Jersey in the near future. A bill introduced in New Jersey aims to establish a …
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By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Changes to the largest U.S. food aid program in the debt deal passed by Congress this week could force hundreds of thousands of older …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran on Friday released hunger-striking jailed dissident Farhad Meysami, the Iranian judiciary said, a week after supporters had warned that he risked dying for protesting against the …
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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian film director Jafar Panahi has started a hunger strike in prison to protest against authorities’ refusal to release him temporarily on bail pending retrial, the activist …
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By Arshad Mohammed (Reuters) – An Iranian American imprisoned in Iran for more than seven years on spying charges that the United States rejects as baseless appealed to U.S. President …
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) -The United States is doing “everything it can” to secure the release of Egytian-British activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah from jail in Egypt and President Joe Biden …
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All SPB Hospitality brands to host fundraisers throughout September that will go towards the critical resources that hungry children need Houston, TX (-) SPB Hospitality is teaming up with No …
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The new franchise restaurant serving feel-good food with a feel-good purpose is opening its doors in Cary’s popular Parkside Town Commons on September 29 Cary, NC (-) Zambrero, is opening …
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Campaign supports company’s continued commitment to supporting local communities in need following its $200,000 donation to the American Red Cross to aid Western wildfires and Hurricane Ida relief efforts Rosemont, …
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Shalimar, FL (-) With a growing number of Americans relying on local food banks for help in finding their next meal, Lee’s Famous Recipe® Chicken will join GiftAMeal as the …
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By Khaled Abdullah and Abdulrahman al-Anisi SANAA (Reuters) – In a bare kitchen in her house in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, Umm Zakaria al-Sharaabi prepares for a daily challenge – …
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By Christopher Walljasper CHICAGO (Reuters) – Grace Melt made her first visit to the Nourishing Hope food pantry on Chicago’s North Side in August. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, she used …
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By Maytaal Angel LONDON (Reuters) – Nearly one million people in Afghanistan, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen are starving or will face starvation this year in the absence of …
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinian prisoner Khalil Awawdeh ended a hunger strike lasting over 160 days on Wednesday after Israel agreed to his release in October, his lawyer said. Awawdeh, 40, …