Feared global hunger crisis 'coming to pass' as Mideast war lingers – UN

GENEVA, Switzerland — “Pessimistic” predictions that the war in the Middle East could push tens of millions more people into acute hunger if drawn out are being proven right, the United Nations said on Friday. A few weeks after the United States-Israel strikes on Iran on Feb. 28 sparked the war and plunged world energy markets into turmoil, the United Nations’ World Food Program (WFP) warned that soaring oil prices were devastating global food security. If oil prices were