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Nobel winner urges billionaires to save millions from famine

by Edith M. Lederer
| October 16, 2020 2:33 PM

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 save millions of lives, saying Friday the number of people “marching toward starvation” has jumped from 135 million to 270 million since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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