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UN warns up to 345 million people marching toward starvation

People receive food rations in Kabul, Afghanistan on May 10, 2022. [AP Photo]

The U.N. food chief warned Thursday that the world is facing "a global emergency of unprecedented magnitude," with up to 345 million people marching toward starvation - and 70 million pushed closer to starvation by the war in Ukraine.

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