Pakistan hit by flour shortages
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People in Pakistan are struggling to cope with a sudden severe shortage of affordable flour.
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CAMAGUEY, Cuba -- Children swarmed the table outside Blanca Peleaz's concrete home in this central Cuban city. There were cakes and cookies, gooey frosting and candy speckles, rare abundance in a place where food shortages are the norm.
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QUETTA, Pakistan  - Water levels are falling in some parts of flood-hit Pakistan enabling rescuers to reach areas cut off for days but more bad weather is on the way, officials said on Monday.
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Nepal urges international donors to provide $120m worth of aid to meet a food shortage in the country.
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LONDON (England): Pakistan coach Bob Woolmer said his side were in desperate need of a match-winner after losing to Australia in their one-day warm-up match at Lordâs.
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Trauma and malnutrition leave many refugee mothers unable to breast-feed.
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Shops were shuttered, weddings were cancelled and daily life was on hold for tens of millions of Pakistanis on Saturday as the nation mourned the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.
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DAULAT NAGAR, Pakistan -- Nusrat Riaz, a doctor for 17 years, has spent the past three directing a clinic that provides care to thousands of poor patients in this remote, wheat-farming village on the plains of Punjab.
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Pakistan sends troops to guard wheat supplies around the country amid fears of a massive shortfall.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 6 -- Despite the candidates' colorful posters papering road signs and storefronts, the political atmosphere two weeks before Pakistan's parliamentary elections is as bleak and foreboding as the gray winter sky shrouding much of the country.
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SIRIN VALLEY, Pakistan  - Sitting on the floor of an earthquake-damaged house, 25 women from Jigal village in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province listen to a veterinarian doctor tell them about animal husbandry.
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The Pakistani opposition leader's assassination has thrown the country into turmoil.
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After the Indian Ocean tsunami in  December 2004, farmers around the region relied on stockpiles  from a Philippine-based rice institute to provide them with  rice varieties that could grow in salty soils.
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NEW DELHI: With thousands of bodies rotting and infrastructure in tatters, authorities and medical relief workers fear an epidemic and severe shortage of food supplies along south Indian coastline and in Andaman and Nicobar islands.
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A lack of coordination in the relief effort for survivors of a deadly tsunami in south India has led to an excess of supplies in some villages while others lack the most basic necessities.
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More than 12 million families last year, about the same as in 2002, either didn't have enough food or worried about being able to feed everyone, the government reported Friday.
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Pakistan suffer some difficult moments before closing out a victory over Zimbabwe.