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World News in Brief: El Niño’s $11 trillion price tag, Mozambique and Yemen updates
The El Niño extreme weather pattern could cost the global economy up to $11 trillion and seriously impact food security, said the UN agency tackling rural poverty in developing countries on Monday.
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