International Donors Pledge $600 Million for S. Sudan

International donors at a conference in Oslo, Norway, have pledged $600 million for South Sudan, where the United Nations says 4 million people are at risk of starvation.   Tuesday's pledges are in addition to the $536 million already promised. Norwegian Foreign Minister Boerge Brende calls the pledges significant and says they will save lives.   But U.N. officials say the pledges still are short of the $1.8 billion needed for South Sudan.   Fighting between...

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