troops are likely to deploy to Afghanistan in the next year or two. The Pentagon says a total of more than 20,000 extra U.S. The United Nations says some 4,000 people have been killed in fighting in Afghanistan this year, around one-third of them civilians. So it says a lot that the United States is pledging to send even more soldiers to the war-torn country, which has witnessed a surge in violence to levels not seen since a U.S.-led toppling of the former Taliban regime. There are already about 65,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan, with more than 30,000 of those coming from the United States. Growing Violence, Resurgence Of Taliban In Afghanistan “It’s salty and it has butter and you don’t know you’re eating dirt,” 24-year-old Olwich Louis Jeune told "The New York Times."Ī Taliban fighter in Wardak Province in September7. In Haiti, people were reduced to eating patties made of mud, oil, and sugar. The crisis sparked deadly riots and demonstrations around the world, from Egypt to India, Uzbekistan to Georgia.Įconomist Jeffrey Sachs called it "the worst crisis of its kind in more than 30 years." The organization says that goal "is now even more remote." The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization says high food prices reversed what had been positive trends toward achieving the Millennium Development Goal of reducing by half the proportion of people suffering from hunger worldwide by 2015. Food Prices Rise, Pushing Millions Into HungerĪccording to the UN, rising food prices around the world have plunged an additional 75 million people below the hunger threshold, bringing the estimated number of undernourished people worldwide to almost 1 billion.
Meanwhile, the Balkans' other top fugitive war crimes suspect, Bosnian Serb military commander Ratko Mladic, is still at large.Ī Congolese child tries to salvage spilled flour distributed by the World Food Program in November.8.
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The trial is not expected to begin for a few months. Ten days later, on July 31, a clean-shaven Karadzic appeared before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, where he faces charges of crimes against humanity and genocide.Įventually, the man known as the "Butcher of Bosnia" chose to defend himself, refused to enter pleas, and a tribunal judge entered pleas of not guilty to all charges on his behalf. He had disguised himself behind a bushy white beard and a head of long white hair. He was barely recognizable when the world first glimpsed Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic after more than a decade on the run. What stories did they think had the biggest impact? Here are their choices for the Top 10 news stories of 2008.ġ0. As part of our look back at the year that was, we asked broadcasters, editors, and correspondents representing the 20 countries and 28 languages in which RFE/RL broadcasts to vote on what they thought were the top news events of the year.
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