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The famine, in Somalia, claimed between 50,000 and 100,000 lives, half of them children.

Children in Somalia have been increasingly targeted by the al-Qaeda affiliated group, al-Shabab, for recruitment and are subjected to abuses.

Residents of Christchurch, New Zealand, gathered on Wednesday to pay tribute to the 185 people who were killed and the countless who suffered in the city’s magnitude-6.3 [...]

The sale of 16 dairy farms in New Zealand’s North Island to a major Chinese conglomerate hit a snag in the High Court, with the approval process for the deal being called [...]

As part of the deal Greece will need to reduce its public debt from 160 percent of its GDP to 120.5 percent by 2020.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief, was taken in for questioning in France over alleged connection to a prostitution ring.

Two Western journalists and one local cameraman became the latest victims of the unceasing violence in the Syrian city of Homs on Wednesday.

Judge Satoshi Shibayama admitted in the Wakayama District Court that he could not rule out Vermeulen’s claims that the victim gave a false statement.

The judge in the case of ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will deliver the final verdict on June 2.

At least five people were killed and more injured in Afghanistan after protests descended into riots over the burning of the Koran at a U.S. military base

Canada’s public safety minister is being attacked by hacktivists with Anonymous and an unnamed Twitter user for a proposed e-security bill increasing online police powers.

The murder rate has fallen in Mexico’s deadliest city, Juarez, in the past year, announced Mexican President Felipe Calderon.

A report on Thursday found that many of the inmates who were housed in the prison that burned down and killed hundreds of people on Wednesday were not convicted, or in some [...]

Members of the British Parliament will visit the Falklands Islands amid escalating tensions between the U.K. and Argentina.

The commander of ISAF, Gen. John R. Allen, expressed condolences to the families of those killed in the incident.

Taliban officials do not want to meet with representatives of Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s government despite having met with U.S. officials.