Yellen calls on G20 to boost aid for food insecurity, offers debt freeze

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U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen urged Group of 20 finance and agriculture ministers on Tuesday to take urgent steps to help the 70 million people at risk of acute food insecurity as a result of Russian President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine. Yellen told the inaugural meeting of G20 joint finance and agriculture ministers that Putin and his officials - including those taking part in meetings in Washington this week - were responsible for "immense human suffering" caused by the war, a Treasury official said.