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Philippines: Typhoon Kalmaegi Triggers Severe Flooding, Displacing Thousands 4

At least 140 people have died and 127 remain missing after Typhoon Kalmaegi struck the Philippines, with the central province of Cebu suffering the worst damage from floods and mudslides. Homes were destroyed and streets were left buried in debris, forcing thousands of residents to evacuate. In Cebu, floodwaters rose to roof level in some areas. A state of calamity has been declared in Cebu to speed up emergency response as rescue operations continue.

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US: Multiple Arrested At Pro-Palestine Protest Outside NYU Stern School Of Business

Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, including students and faculty members, rallied outside the New York University Stern School of Business on Monday, April 22. As the protest intensified, multiple protesters were taken into custody.

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WFP ambassador

TOKYO, Japan - Kurara Chibana (L), a model who was runner-up in the Miss Universe 2006 beauty pageant, is pictured in Tokyo on Dec. 13, 2013, after she was named as the first Japanese ambassador for the World Food Program. At right is Elisabeth Rasmusson, assistant executive director of the Rome-based U.N. body.

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WFP's Rasmusson, Chibana seek aid for Syrian refugees

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese model Kurara Chibana (L), the National Ambassador against Hunger for Japan for the U.N. World Food Program, and the WFP's Assistant Executive Director Elisabeth Rasmusson call for more aid for Syrian refugees in Jordan at an event in Tokyo, on Nov. 17, 2014.

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Model Chibana calls for support for Syrian refugees

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese model Kurara Chibana, the National Ambassador against Hunger for Japan for the U.N. World Food Program, reports on the situation of Syrian refugees in Jordan at an event in Tokyo on Nov. 17, 2014. She called for support for Syrian refugees, particularly children.

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WFP's Afghan official calls for more global aid

TOKYO, Japan - Claude Jibidar, U.N. World Food Program country director for Afghanistan, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2014. He said Afghanistan is short of 40 million dollars to achieve this year's aid target and called for more international contributions.

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Syrian women receive relief goods amid 40% supply cut

DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrian women receive relief goods from the U.N. World Food Program in Damascus on Oct. 19, 2014. The WFP has been forced to cut relief supplies by 40% because of the needs for humanitarian assistance in other places such as West Africa caught in the Ebola scare.

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Workers bring in WFP relief goods in Damascus

DAMASCUS, Syria - Workers bring relief goods into the U.N. World Food Program's storage tent in Damascus on Oct. 19, 2014. The WFP has been forced to cut relief supplies by 40% because of the needs for humanitarian assistance in other places such as West Africa caught in the Ebola scare.

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WFP head says food aid essential for Ebola patients

TOKYO, Japan - Ertharin Cousin, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, gives an interview in Tokyo on Sept. 13, 2014. She said food aid for quarantined people in West Africa due to the Ebola outbreak is essential to stop the spread of the disease. She was in Japan to attend the World Assembly for Women in Tokyo.

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Japanese woman works for WFP in Ebola-hit Sierra Leone

TOKYO, Japan - Naoe Yakiya, seen in this undated file photo, works as deputy chief of the office of the U.N. World Food Program in Sierra Leone, western Africa, caught in an outbreak of the Ebola virus.

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WFP chief in N. Korea

PYONGYANG, North Korea - U.N. World Food Program Executive Director Ertharin Cousin arrives in Pyongyang on May 19, 2014. WFP has an office in Pyongyang providing food aid to North Korea.

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Model Chibana becomes WFP ambassador against hunger

TOKYO, Japan - Photo taken Dec. 13, 2013, shows Japanese model Kurara Chibana, who became the U.N. World Food Program's ambassador against hunger for Japan that month after having served as the organization's celebrity partner since 2007.

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WFP official Oshidari

BEIJING, China - Kenro Oshidari, the U.N. World Food Program's regional director for Asia, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News on Sept. 3, 2011, in Beijing. Oshidari visited hospitals, orphanages and other facilities in North Korea from late August to early September to study the food situation in the country.

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WFP chief heads to N. Korea

BEIJING, China - Josette Sheeran, executive director of the World Food Program, answers reporters' questions at Beijing airport on her way to Pyongyang on Nov. 2, 2010. Sheeran said she will convey to North Korean officials the U.N. food agency's concern over nutrition of North Korean children and view its operation in North Korea.

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WFP to urge N. Korea to provide enough food to people

TOKYO, Japan - Josette Sheeran, executive director of the World Food Program, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 26, 2010. The U.N. food agency chief said she will travel to North Korea in the near future and urge government officials to provide enough food and nutrition to people suffering from hunger.

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Food situation 'dramatic' in N. Korea, WFP says

BEIJING, China - Torben Due, U.N. World Food Program country representative for North Korea, speaks during a press conference in Beijing on July 1 to call donor-community attention to what the WFP described as a severe food situation in North Korea.

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WFP chief says agency's role in N. Korea remains unclear

BEIJING, China - World Food Program chief James morris speaks at a press conference in Beijing after his trip to North Korea on Dec. 15. Morris said WFP will continue deliberations on the U.N. agency's future role in the impoverished country.

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WFP chief may go to North Korea for high-level talks

NEW YORK, United States - Jan Egeland, United Nations undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 29. He said James Morris, head of the World Food Program, may travel to Pyongyang.

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U.N. officials seek help for N. Korea blast victims

BEIJING, China - Anthony Banbury, World Food Program Asia regional director, appeals for emergency food and medical aid for victims of North Korea's railway blast in Beijing April 27. Banbury and five other WFP officials visited the Provincial People's Hospital of Pyongan in Siniuju, where 360 of the most severely injured people were being treated.

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Loading of Japanese rice for N. Korea starts in Hakodate

HAKODATE, Japan - Dock workers began loading Japanese rice onto the 20,900-ton North Korean freighter Jon Jin on April 7 at Hakodate port, Hokkaido. About 10,000 tons of domestic brown rice produced in 1995-1996 and bought by the central government will be shipped to North Korea as humanitarian aid via the U.N. World Food Program. Jon Jin is to set sail for the North in about two weeks.

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WFP head in Iraq calls for greater international support

Jane Pearce, representative of the U.N. World Food Program in Iraq, speaks to reporters at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan in Tokyo on June 8, 2015, calling for greater international support for people in the conflict-torn Arab country. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Cash-strapped WFP chief appeals for sustained support

World Food Program Executive Director Ertharin Cousin meets the press in Tokyo on March 13, 2015, calling for sustained support for the cash-strapped specialized U.N. agency. She said half the Syrian population mired in a protracted civil war needs humanitarian assistance, adding the WFP has slashed per-capita food assistance in the Middle East country by 30 percent due to fund shortage. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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U.N. officials seek help for N. Korea blast victims

BEIJING, China - Anthony Banbury, World Food Program Asia regional director, appeals for emergency food and medical aid for victims of North Korea's railway blast in Beijing April 27. Banbury and five other WFP officials visited the Provincial People's Hospital of Pyongan in Siniuju, where 360 of the most severely injured people were being treated. (Kyodo)

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WFP chief may go to North Korea for high-level talks

NEW YORK, United States - Jan Egeland, United Nations undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 29. He said James Morris, head of the World Food Program, may travel to Pyongyang. (Kyodo)

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WFP chief calls for increased food aid to N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Children eat their lunch in North Korea's North Pyongan Province in a photo taken in late by the U.N. World Food Program. Jean-Pierre DeMargerie, the head of the U.N. World Food Program called on the international community to increase food aid to North Korea at a press conference in Seoul on March 29. (Kyodo)

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WFP chief calls for increased food aid to N. Korea

SEOUL, South Korea - Residents of North Korea's North Pyongan Province are engaged in farming in a photo taken in late by the U.N. World Food Program. Jean-Pierre DeMargerie, head of the U.N. agency, who made a five-day trip to the North from last Friday, called on the international community to increase food aid to North Korea at a press conference in Seoul on March 29. (Kyodo)

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WFP chief says agency's role in N. Korea remains unclear

BEIJING, China - World Food Program chief James morris speaks at a press conference in Beijing after his trip to North Korea on Dec. 15. Morris said WFP will continue deliberations on the U.N. agency's future role in the impoverished country. (Kyodo)

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WFP's Rasmusson, Chibana seek aid for Syrian refugees

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese model Kurara Chibana (L), the National Ambassador against Hunger for Japan for the U.N. World Food Program, and the WFP's Assistant Executive Director Elisabeth Rasmusson call for more aid for Syrian refugees in Jordan at an event in Tokyo, on Nov. 17, 2014. (Kyodo)

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WFP's Afghan official calls for more global aid

TOKYO, Japan - Claude Jibidar, U.N. World Food Program country director for Afghanistan, speaks in an interview with Kyodo News in Tokyo on Oct. 20, 2014. He said Afghanistan is short of 40 million dollars to achieve this year's aid target and called for more international contributions. (Kyodo)

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Syrian women receive relief goods amid 40% supply cut

DAMASCUS, Syria - Syrian women receive relief goods from the U.N. World Food Program in Damascus on Oct. 19, 2014. The WFP has been forced to cut relief supplies by 40% because of the needs for humanitarian assistance in other places such as West Africa caught in the Ebola scare. (Kyodo)

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WFP head says food aid essential for Ebola patients

TOKYO, Japan - Ertharin Cousin, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, gives an interview in Tokyo on Sept. 13, 2014. She said food aid for quarantined people in West Africa due to the Ebola outbreak is essential to stop the spread of the disease. She was in Japan to attend the World Assembly for Women in Tokyo. (Kyodo)

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WFP chief heads to N. Korea

BEIJING, China - Josette Sheeran, executive director of the World Food Program, answers reporters' questions at Beijing airport on her way to Pyongyang on Nov. 2, 2010. Sheeran said she will convey to North Korean officials the U.N. food agency's concern over nutrition of North Korean children and view its operation in North Korea. (Kyodo)

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WFP to urge N. Korea to provide enough food to people

TOKYO, Japan - Josette Sheeran, executive director of the World Food Program, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Oct. 26, 2010. The U.N. food agency chief said she will travel to North Korea in the near future and urge government officials to provide enough food and nutrition to people suffering from hunger. (Kyodo)

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WFP Syrian office head Fleischer

Corinne Fleischer, who heads the Syria representative office of the U.N. World Food Program, is interviewed in Tokyo on Dec. 3, 2019. She said about 200,000 people in northern Syria have lost their homes following Turkey's military offensive against Kurdish-led forces in Syria in October. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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WFP head Beasley

U.N. World Food Program head David Beasley speaks at a press conference in Seoul on May 15, 2018, following his visit to North Korea the previous week.(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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WFP head Beasley

U.N. World Food Program head David Beasley speaks at a press conference in Seoul on May 15, 2018, following his visit to North Korea the previous week.(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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WFP head Beasley in Tokyo

U.N. World Food Program head David Beasley (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (R) hold talks at his office in Tokyo on Dec. 12, 2017. The two agreed to work closely together on humanitarian support. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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WFP head Beasley in Tokyo

U.N. World Food Program head David Beasley (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe shake hands at Abe's office in Tokyo on Dec. 12, 2017. The two agreed to work closely together on humanitarian support. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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WFP head Beasley in Tokyo

David Beasley, executive director of the U.N. World Food Program, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 12, 2017. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan offers aid to alleviate Rohingya refugee crisis

Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Kono (C), along with U.N. World Food Program officials, visit a camp for Rohingya Muslim refugees in Cox's Bazar, southeastern Bangladesh, on Nov. 19, 2017. Japan offered $18.6 million in humanitarian aid to improve conditions for the refugees who fled violence in neighboring Myanmar. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Food situation 'dramatic' in N. Korea, WFP says

BEIJING, China - Torben Due, U.N. World Food Program country representative for North Korea, speaks during a press conference in Beijing on July 1 to call donor-community attention to what the WFP described as a severe food situation in North Korea. (Kyodo)

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Loading of Japanese rice for N. Korea starts in Hakodate

HAKODATE, Japan - Dock workers began loading Japanese rice onto the 20,900-ton North Korean freighter Jon Jin on April 7 at Hakodate port, Hokkaido. About 10,000 tons of domestic brown rice produced in 1995-1996 and bought by the central government will be shipped to North Korea as humanitarian aid via the U.N. World Food Program. Jon Jin is to set sail for the North in about two weeks.

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Loading of Japanese rice for N. Korea starts in Hakodate

HAKODATE, Japan - Dock workers began loading Japanese rice onto the 20,900-ton North Korean freighter Jon Jin on April 7 at Hakodate port, Hokkaido. About 10,000 tons of domestic brown rice produced in 1995-1996 and bought by the central government will be shipped to North Korea as humanitarian aid via the U.N. World Food Program. Jon Jin is to set sail for the North in about two weeks.

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U.N. agencies, NGOs deplore N. Korea's 'aid blocking'

GENEVA, Switzerland - Twenty-one U.N. agencies and nongovernmental organizations operating in North Korea have expressed concern about restrictions to their aid activities in the country, according to a copy of a statement shown in the photo and made available to Kyodo News on Jan. 4. The statement was signed by such bodies as the United Nations Development Program, World Food Program, U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, and the Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc. in Pyongyang on Dec. 11, 1999.