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Thousands in Kashmir attended the funerals of two militants slain in a shoot-out with soldiers. Indian officials said the fighters served the Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Jaish-e-Muhammad, which operates mainly in Indian-controlled Kashmir. Many Kashmiris chafe at India's heavy military presence in the once idyllic Himalayan state.

Soccer's Scandal Rolls On

SWITZERLAND

Sepp Blatter was re-elected president of FIFA, soccer's ruling body, despite calls to delay the vote amid allegations of widespread corruption. "Crisis? What is a crisis?" he said. Blatter has denied charges that Qatar bought votes to host the 2022 World Cup.

World Faces Epic Food Crisis

U.K.

In a new study, the London-based charity Oxfam says the "international community is sleepwalking" toward humanitarian catastrophe, as rising food prices threaten to cause a range of demographic and social crises. The report, Growing a Better Future, says prices for basic staples may rise 120% to 180% of their current levels by 2030, partly as a result of climate change but also because of poor distribution and unfettered speculation in commodity markets by big banks and hedge funds. The trend can be reversed, says Oxfam, if governments improve regulation and focus on the plight of small farms.

The estimated rise in the cost of basic staples by 2030 ...

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WITHOUT CLIMATE CHANGE

72% PADDY RICE 107%

53% WHEAT 82%

71% MAIZE 126%

34% PROCESSED RICE 48%

WITH CLIMATE CHANGE

SOURCE: OXFAM

... is bad news for the world's undernourished

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DEVELOPED COUNTRIES

19 million

NEAR EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

37 million

LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN

53 million

SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA

239 million

ASIA

578 million

Hordes of Mongols Take to the Streets

CHINA

Parts of Inner Mongolia, the region that forms much of China's northern border, were locked down following protests touched off by the death of a herder who was run over by a coal truck. Riot police were dispatched, and ethnic Mongol students were barred from leaving their campuses. Though less restive than some of China's other border regions--like Tibet--Inner Mongolia has been reshaped by decades of Han Chinese migration.