Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheál Martin and US secretary of state Hillary Clinton are to co-host an international hunger conference in New York next month to which up to 190 nations have been invited. The issue of food security in the wake of the devastating floods in Pakistan and fires in Russia is expected to top the agenda. Mr Martin said he and Ms Clinton had agreed to co-host the conference when Ms Clinton visited Dublin last year. Officials from both nations had been working on the plan since the Dublin meeting to ensure the conference formulates what he called “tangible proposals” to help tackle world hunger. Read more