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"The scourge of hunger... continues to atrociously plague a significant portion of humanity," he said, a day after the United Nations warned global hunger "is at record levels".

West Virginia is expected to unveil on Thursday a potentially first-of-its-kind fund aimed at one of the thorniest environmental issues plaguing America’s oil-and-gas-producing regions.

These habits would get him fired from the band a decade later and plague him during his long solo career.

Jeri had vowed to tackle a wave of extortion and murder that has plagued Peru in recent years.

When she died of the plague a few years later, they felt vindicated; one particularly judgy saint ascribed it to her use of a “certain golden instrument.”