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Pope to UN forum: Hunger is ‘crime’ violating basic rights

FILE - In this file photo dated Friday, July 2, 2021, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres pauses during a news conference at the Moncloa Palace in Madrid, Spain. Guterres told a United Nations food summit in Rome Monday July 26, 2021, that climate change and conflict are both a consequence and a driver of poverty and income inequality. (AP Photo/Paul White, FILE) FILE - In this file photo dated Sunday, July 11, 2021, Pope Francis appears on a balcony of the Agostino Gemelli Polyclinic in Rome. Pope Francis has decried as criminal the existence of hunger in a world which can produce enough food for all, addressing a meeting in Rome Monday July 26, 2021, preparing for a U.N. food systems summit. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, FILE)