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December 5, 2012

U.N.: Food Shortages Growing in Syria 
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The United Nations is warning that food shortages are growing in Syria
as a result of rising prices and mounting attacks on U.N. vehicles
delivering vital supplies. The U.N. World Program is currently feeding
some 1.5 million people in Syria, the vast majority displaced from their
homes. The news comes one day after the United Nations and European
Union announced they are cutting back operations and removing staffers
from the capital Damascus. Among the victims of the latest violence in
Syria Tuesday were nine students and a teacher killed when their school
was bombed in a suburb of Damascus. Government forces have blamed rebels
for the attack.