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The US on Friday said it would hold Russia accountable for implementing a UN-brokered deal to resume Ukraine’s Black Sea grain exports and called out China for stockpiling grain that could be used for global humanitarian needs. Russia and Ukraine are major global wheat suppliers, and Moscow’s Feb. 24 invasion of its neighbor sent food prices soaring, stoking a global food crisis the World Food Programme (WFP) says has pushed some 47 million people into “acute hunger.” Russia and Ukraine on Friday signed a landmark deal to reopen Ukrainian Black Sea ports for grain exports. The war has stalled Kyiv’s...
