25,000 people die every day due to starvation.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:

Assailment \As*sail"ment\, noun The act or power of assailing; attack; assault. [R.]

His most frequent assailment was the headache. --Johnson.
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