Bakers in Burkina Faso closed in protest on Thursday after the government said it would not let them raise the price of baguettes in response to surging wheat prices
Global wheat prices are so high that African consumers are starting to ditch the grain their diet
A growing food security threat is set to push Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi into a conundrum: continue sending wheat to countries hit by dwindling supplies the war in Ukraine or stockpile food at home to fend off high inflation
Russia launched a wide-ranging attack on Ukraine on Thursday, hitting cities and bases with airstrikes or shelling, as civilians piled into trains and cars to flee
A world economy thats still recovering COVID-19 faces new risks an energy-price spike as the standoff between the West and Russia escalates