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CNN’s Becky Anderson speaks with UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) executive director David Beasley about the developing food crisis in southern Madagascar which he says has pushed 1.14 million people “right to the very edge of starvation.” Successive droughts made worse by climate change are plaguing the African island, according to the WFP.

By Stephanie Halasz, Zahra Ullah, Niamh Kennedy, Anna Chernova, Rob Picheta and Brad Lendon, CNN A British naval warship became embroiled in a confrontation with Russian forces off the coast of the disputed territory of Crimea on Wednesday. Russia says one of its warplanes dropped bombs and a patrol boat fired warning shots to turn

By Amy Cassidy, David McKenzie and Ingrid Formanek, CNN Climate change is the driving force of a developing food crisis in southern Madagascar, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has warned. The African island has been plagued with back-to-back droughts — its worst in four decades — which have pushed 1.14 million people “right to

By John Allen, CNN Senior Vatican Analyst and editor of Crux, and Nicola Ruotolo Senior lawmakers in Italy pushed back Wednesday against “interference” from the Vatican after it protested against a draft Italian law designed to combat homophobia. The Italian “parliament is sovereign and won’t accept interference,” the President of Italy’s lower house of parliament,

By Nimi Princewill, CNN Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has assembled a reconciliation team to lead negotiations with Twitter, more than two weeks after the American social media company’s operation was indefinitely suspended in the West African nation. The move came about after Twitter wrote to the President “seeking to engage with the Federal Government over