WASHINGTON (AP) – For Americans of a certain age, the word stagflation conjures memories of painfully long lines at gas stations, shuttered factories and President Gerald Ford’s “Whip Inflation Now” buttons.
ISLAMABAD (AP) – In Afghanistan, 1.1 million children under the age of 5 will likely face the most severe form of malnutrition this year, according to the UN, as increasing numbers of hungry, wasting-away children are brought into hospital wards.