UN Council to hold meeting on emerging food crisis
The President of the Economic and Social Council
has announced plans to hold a meeting of the council early next
month to discuss how to respond to the growing food crisis around
the world, a UN spokesperson said Wednesday.
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Philippines to get tough with rice hoarders
Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo on
Tuesday pledged to lead the fight against rice price paddling as the
Government announced criminal complaints filed against 13 rice
hoarders.
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Nalini wrote letters to Sonia
Nalini Sriharan, a convict in the Rajiv Gandhi
assassination case undergoing life term in Vellore prison, wrote
several letters to UPA chairperson and the former Prime Minister's
widow Sonia Gandhi pleading early release.
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