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A nurse inoculates a woman with a dose of the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine at the Perez Carreno public hospital in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday, April 9, 2021. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
US weighs policy on Venezuela as Maduro signals flexibility

By Joshua Goodman Apr. 26, 2021 02:03 PM EDT

FILE - In this April 10, 2021 file photo, a man waits to unload bags of basic food staples, such as pasta, sugar, flour, and kitchen oil, provided residents through the CLAP government food assistance program in the Santa Rosalia neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro signed a deal the week of April 23, 2021 to let the U.N. World Food Program create a program to provide school meals for 1.5 million children, after years of rejecting humanitarian aid offers as unnecessary and as veiled attempts by the U.S. and other hostile forces to destabilize his government. (AP Photo/Matias Delacroix, File)
Venezuela's Maduro begins allowing aid against hunger, virus

By Regina Garcia Cano And Jorge Rueda Apr. 23, 2021 04:19 PM EDT

In this image made from UNTV video, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks during a U.N. Security Council high-level meeting on COVID-19 recovery focusing on vaccinations, chaired by British Foreign Secretary Dominc Raab, Wednesday, Feb. 17, 2021, at UN headquarters, in New York. (UNTV via AP)
UN appeals for $5.5 billion to avert famine for 34 million

By Edith M. Lederer Mar. 11, 2021 11:55 AM EST

Exterior view of the congress center in Davos, Switzerland, Monday, Jan. 25, 2021. The World Economic Forum, WEF, was scheduled to take place in Davos between Jan. 25 and Jan. 29, 2021. Due to the Coronavirus outbreak it will be held in a digital format. (Gian Ehrenzeller/Keystone via AP)
World Food Program chief warns of vulnerable supply chains

Jan. 27, 2021 06:09 AM EST

Nobel Committee chair Berit Reiss-Andersen makes a statement at the Nobel Institute as part of the digital award ceremony for this year's Peace Prize winner, the World Food Program (WFP), in Oslo, Norway, Thursday Dec. 10, 2020. Reiss-Andersen makes a statement in Oslo as part of the Nobel Peace Prize digital award ceremony and an acceptance speech will be made by WFP Executive Director David Beasley in Rome, Italy. (Heiko Junge / NTB via AP)
U.N. food agency receives Nobel prize in online event

By Frances D'emilio And Jan M. Olsen Dec. 10, 2020 05:01 AM EST

FILE - World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley speaks to the media about the organization's Nobel Peace Prize win, at the airport in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, late Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Beasley says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N. agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year, and without billions of dollars “we are going to have famines of biblical proportions in 2021.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)
2020 Nobel Peace ceremony won't be held in person in Oslo

Nov. 18, 2020 06:38 AM EST

FILE - World Food Program (WFP) Executive Director David Beasley speaks to the media about the organization's Nobel Peace Prize win, at the airport in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, late Friday, Oct. 9, 2020. Beasley says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the U.N. agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year, and without billions of dollars “we are going to have famines of biblical proportions in 2021.” (AP Photo/Sam Mednick)
Nobel UN food agency warns 2021 will be worse than 2020

By Edith M. Lederer Nov. 14, 2020 03:34 PM EST

UN food chief: Yemen faces `looming famine,' needs millions

By Edith M. Lederer Nov. 11, 2020 02:41 PM EST
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Program sounded an alarm Wednesday that war-torn Yemen faces “looming famine" and...

FILE - In this Friday, Sept. 26, 2014 file photo, Norwegian Minister of Health Bent Hoeie is seen during the Global Health Security Agenda Summit, on the White House complex in Washington. The Norwegian government has granted an exemption from its two-week quarantine requirement for arriving visitors so representatives from the winner of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize - the World Food Program - can attend the Dec. 10 award ceremony in Oslo. “The awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize is an important event of great national and international interest,” Norwegian Health Minister Bent Hoeie said Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020. “We want to make it easy for the prize winner to be physically present this year as well.” (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, file)
Norway gives quarantine exemption to 2020 Nobel winners

Nov. 10, 2020 12:19 PM EST

Nobel winner urges billionaires to save millions from famine

By Edith M. Lederer Oct. 16, 2020 05:18 PM EDT
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The head of the World Food Program, this year’s winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, again urged billionaires to donate just a few billion to...