Officials in Columbus Junction, Iowa, survey flooding from a bridge near the confluence of the Iowa and Cedar Rivers. (Stephen Mally for The New York Times)
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PERRIS, Calif. — As California faces one of its worst droughts in two decades, building projects are being curtailed for the first time under state law by the inability of developers to find long-term water supplies.
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Hoda al-Latif and the son she describes as “ill in the head” have long relied on the comfort of friends and neighbours. Sympathisers paid the rent on a cramped flat in the rundown east side of Cairo and picked up extra meat at the butchers for the near destitute widow and 25-year-old Ahmed, who the government classifies as mentally handicapped.
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IN JORDAN: A woman collects free bread at an Islamic charity in the capital, Amman. Such programs fill a gap by feeding the hungry as prices soar and help the charities’ political allies.
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Relief deliveries into cyclone-hit Burma increased today but aid groups said supplies fell far short of the enormous need and that foreign experts were still barred from the country.
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DAMASCUS, May 8 (Reuters) - Worse than expected weather will plunge Syria’s wheat production to a nine-year low this year and the government may use its strategic reserve to help meet domestic needs, a senior agriculture official said on Thursday.
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The old ways no longer cut it.
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Forty percent of all Egyptians live below or just above the poverty line
Liberal and left-wing political activists in Egypt have called for a general strike on Sunday to protest against rising prices.
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VIENNA, Austria - A sharp rise in food prices has developed into a global crisis, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Friday .
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing. Major retailers in New York, in areas of New England, and on the West Coast are limiting purchases of flour, rice, and cooking oil as demand outstrips supply. There are also anecdotal reports that some consumers are hoarding grain stocks.
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