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World hunger rising as UN warns of 'looming catastrophe'

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The UN World Food Programme Director Patrick Beasley has warned that ‘50 million people in 45 countries are now just one step from famine.’ He also called on an urgent lifting of the blockade on 25 million tonnes of Ukrainian grain trapped by a Russian blockade.

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In a closed-door briefing with journalists, Rustem Umerov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, and Oleksandr Kamyshin, an advisor on Strategic Industries to the President's Office, said that the current production capacity (for this year) of the Ukrainain defense industry is around $35 billion per year.

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