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starvation
Sep 1 2009, Edward

The spectre of famine has returned to the Horn of Africa nearly a quarter of a century after the world’s pop stars gathered to banish it at Live Aid, raising £150m for relief efforts in 1985. Millions of impoverished Ethiopians face the threat of...

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Mayor Michael Nutter, right, followed by Human Services commissioner Anne Marie Ambrose enter a news conference at City Hall in Philadelphia, Monday, Aug. 4, 2008. Seven more city employees have been suspended in connection with the starvation death of...