UN says one-third of world cannot afford a healthy diet
The United Nations says the global cost of a healthy diet has risen 25 percent in five years, reaching US$4.28 purchasing power parity dollars per person per day. The finding was presented at UN headquarters in New York ahead of the launch of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report. Máximo Torero, Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), said 2.69 billion people, almost one in every three people in the world, still cannot afford a healthy diet. He said the report's main finding is that calories are relatively inexpensive, but nutritious foods... [Continue Reading]
Breaking-360LiveNews | 16 Jul 2026 07:00 LONDON
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Fear the Shia, Arm the Sunnis: The Uncomfortable Numbers Behind America’s War Narrative
“When fear is managed carefully enough, a nation can be taught to look away from the blood on the floor and stare instead at the shadow on the wall.” A friend of mine, whose name I will not reveal because he asked me not to, sat across from me over dinner and placed a question on the table that would not leave me alone. He was born into a Muslim Shia background, and for the angle of this article, that detail matters, not because I wish to reduce a man to a sect, but because sect has become one of... [Continue Reading]
360LiveNews-Opinion | 23 May 2026 08:00 LONDON
