The UN Security Council is calling on all parties in Yemen's civil war to halt all military activity and abide by the terms of a cessation of hostilities agreed upon in April.

Cheese-chomping despot Kim Jong Un held a “Master Chef”-style competition to find North Korea’s top cooks as millions across the nation starve. The Emmental-obsessed dictator gave the show, which was broadcast on state TV, the green light despite an estimated two-thirds of the country’s 27 million people surviving on food rations. The Commie connoisseur developed a love of European cheeses and fine wines when he went to school in Switzerland.

North Korea is about to be plunged into another ‘Arduous March’ – the famine that killed millions in the 1990s. People living in the highly secretive country have been warned by Kim Jong-un’s government to prepare to ‘chew on roots of plants once again’. They have also been reminded that their loyalty to the leader should not waver – even if they are on the verge of dying from hunger. Around 3.5million people died between 1994 and 1998, during a famine that became...

More than 10 million people are in need of food aid in Ethiopia amid a drought worse than the one that triggered the haunting 1984 famine, the U.N. has warned. Crops have withered, animals have died and water sources have dried up in parts of northeastern Ethiopia following the failure of the last two rainy seasons.

A drought that slashed food production by 20 percent has resulted in malnutrition for nearly 25,000 North Korean children. UNICEF, the United Nations' children's fund, said the children need emergency care and has asked donors for $18 million for North Korea, The Guardian reported Tuesday. While UNICEF's request for funds is rising, donations are falling, according to the organization. Sources say that whenever Pyongyang tests a nuclear weapon...

Global Impacts of Limited Nuclear War on Agriculture, Food Supplies, and Human Nutrition – Dr. Helfand's report on climate impacts of a nuclear war – International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Physicians for Social Responsibility (PDF)