(Adds background on food riots, paragraph 6) By Robin Pomeroy ROME, April 11 (Reuters) - Food riots in developing countries will spread unless world leaders take major steps to reduce prices for the ...

WASHINGTON - Former President Bill Clinton on Thursday warned farmers that using too much corn for ethanol fuel could lead to higher food prices and riots in poor countries. Clinton told farmers and ...

Upset over meal portions at the El Paso County jail, nine inmates stood off deputies for five hours last month, refusing to leave their cells and daring guards to try to make them. One poured soap and ...

MAPUTO (Reuters) - Almost 150 people have been arrested in Mozambique in the wake of riots last week over soaring bread prices in which 10 people were killed, the country's state-run radio reported on ...

WASHINGTON --With global food prices rising and more corn being diverted to the production of ethanol fuel, Bill Clinton is warning of food riots in poor nations. The former president told farmers and ...

Inmates at San Pedro prison in La Paz staged a riot on Tuesday, seizing control of the facility for several hours to demand ...

WASHINGTON — Chef José Andrés, who owns World Central Kitchen and other restaurants in the D.C. area, passed out pizza, stew and other food to law enforcement Wednesday night following the violent ...

MAHALLA EL-KOBRA, Egypt — Thousands of demonstrators angry about rising prices and stagnant salaries torched buildings, looted shops and hurled bricks at police who responded with tear gas Sunday in a ...

For a change, there were no major food riots in India last week. Instead, something potentially more worrisome than hunger exploded into violence: communal riots, the ugly outbreak of fighting between ...