Leaders reject U.N. funding plea at food meeting
Posted: November 17, 2009 at 5:12 a.m.
Pope Benedict XVI decried the steadily worsening tragedy of world hunger Monday after a global meeting rebuffed a U.N. call to commit billions of dollars a year for a new strategy to help poor countries feed themselves.
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