The FAO has said that the locust threat is one of the biggest challenges facing the world's food systems, already creating devastating impacts in East Africa and Yemen. According to the UN agency, a small swarm of the pests can in one day eat crops that could have otherwise fed 35,000 people.
The Chinese side also said China has also expressed concerns on Japan's movements in the security and military areas in recent years, hoping that Japan sticks to peaceful development and plays a constructive role in regional peace and stability.
The DPRK's condolence delegation met with then South Korean President Lee Myung-bak at the Blue House.
The Costa Venezia, designed and built especially for the Chinese market by Genoa-headquartered Costa Cruises, an Italian major operator, began a 53-day voyage to China earlier this month and will arrive at its Shanghai home port in May. [Photo/Agencies]
The DPRK leader said he was willing to reopen the inter-Korean industrial park in the border city of Kaesong and resume a suspended tour program to Mount Kumgang on the east coast "without any preconditions."
The Dongjiang port will be built into the largest used vehicle export base in north China, according to Shen Lei, director of the management committee of the Dongjiang Free Trade Port Zone.
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The DPRK's top leader Kim Jong-un and ROK President Moon Jae-in agreed during last month's summit in Pyongyang to form a tripartite consultation with the UNC, which overlaps with US forces in the ROK and oversees affairs in the Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ, to facilitate their plan to disarm one of the world's most heavily fortified frontiers.
The Community First Food Pantry Program now delivers about 250 bags of groceries twice a week to the Chung Pak residents as well as others living in tenement buildings in Chinatown and the Lower East Side, where there are huge populations of seniors.
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The Democrats' new majority includes dozens of candidates who support gun control, including Lucy McBath in Georgia, whose 17-year-old son was fatally shot in 2012 and who made gun violence the centerpiece of her campaign At least 17 newly elected House Democrats back stricter gun laws, including Jennifer Wexton, Abigail Spanberger and Elaine Luria in Virginia, who defeated incumbents backed by the National Rifle Association. In Colorado, Democrat Jason Crow beat GOP Rep. Mike Coffman, who received an A rating from the NRA and more than ,000 in campaign contributions from the group.