WTO: Rebuffing Cotton-Four's hopes, US rejects cotton outcome for MC14 (PRIV)
(D. Ravi Kanth, Geneva)
The United States on 19 November appears to have categorically told the Cotton-Four (C-4) countries - Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Chad - not to expect any decision or outcome on cotton-related issues at the upcoming World Trade Organization's 14th ministerial conference (MC14) in Cameroon in March next year, simply because the venue is in Africa, according to people familiar with the development.

UN: Global hunger soars amid lack of funds to respond, warns WFP (PRIV)
(Kanaga Raja, Penang)
Food insecurity is expected to remain at alarming levels in 2026, where a staggering 318 million people face crisis levels of hunger or worse - more than double the figure recorded in 2019, according to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP).

Afghanistan: Deported Afghan women return to life of fear & anxiety (PRIV)
(IPS, Parwan)
When Roya, a former police officer under Afghanistan's Republic government, left the country with her family, she felt a great sense of relief, having escaped from the horrors of Taliban rule.