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The World Food Programme (WFP) cannot serve as a replacement for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip.

UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said Israeli soldiers wanted to question two Palestinian staff members.

World Food Programme is appealing for a greater volume and diversity of aid to be allowed into the enclave.

WFP said it despatched a 14-truck food convoy to northern Gaza, but it was turned back by the Israeli army after a three-hour wait.

A World Food Programme spokesperson said there was a "systematic limitation on getting into the north of Gaza, not just for the WFP".

Gangs have been blocking roads from the capital toward the country's rural provinces for months, complicating efforts to distribute food.

The WFP said the attack occurred on a road that had been cleared previously for travel without security escorts.

The World Food Program won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for fighting hunger and seeking to end its use as "a weapon of war and conflict-.

Latin America has seen an almost three-fold rise in the numbers of people requiring food assistance due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The WFP and its partners were going all out to reach as many as 138 million people this year, the biggest scale-up in our history.

According to experts, 821 million people go to bed hungry and a newly-published Global Report on Food Crisis indicated an additional 135 million are facing crisis levels of hunger or worse.

The nine remaining Malaysians are at the embassy in Pyongyang, unable to leave the country.

"Funding shortages have resulted in WFP only being able to help under half of the people it had aimed to reach, as well as supply only half the amount of food it had intended to provide."

The United Nations is to step up food aid to reach up to a million people affected by the Ebola outbreak wreaking havoc in west Africa, the World Food Programme (WFP) said Friday.

Some 600,000 survivors of a deadly typhoon that tore through the Philippines have yet to receive the World Food Programme assistance.

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Google and Meta says the government should wait for the results of an age-verification trial before going ahead.

It represents a big legal victory for Donald Trump, who won the Nov. 5 US election and is set to return to office on Jan. 20.

Rescue services said the plane hit the ground, split into pieces and slid over 100 metres (110 yards).

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The United States, part of the G7, has rejected the ICC decision, with President Joe Biden describing it as outrageous.

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