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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Burma on Wednesday in the first visit by a secretary of state to the country in more than half century.

Mainland China has experienced two moderate earthquakes Tuesday morning, one of which appears to have caused significant damage.

Libya’s ruling National Transitional Council has announced Thursday that it plans on putting the killers of the former leader Col. Muammar Gaddafi on trial.

World-renowned Italian fashion house Gucci is coming under scrutiny over claims that the company is employing people under sweatshop conditions at its stores in China.

The Indian states of Iash Orissa, Uttar Pradesh, and Bihar have been struggling with surging floodwaters that have left tens of thousands of people stranded and have affected millions.

The high-level meetings of the 66th session of the United Nations General Assembly have opened in New York and one of the biggest issues surrounding the General Assembly meetings is Palestine's planned application to become a U.N. member state, a move the U.S. and its allies staunchly oppose.

Six people were shot dead in a food distribution line in Mogadishu, Somalia on Thursday. It has been reported that people were shot by a soldier who retaliated after an incident whereby people, who had been waiting for hours in food aid lines rushed guards and began amassing food.

The devastating famine in Somalia continues to spread throughout the country resulting in the United Nations to declare a sixth famine zone in the country today.

The United Nations issued a warning on Monday morning that a strain of the bird flu, also known as the H5N1 virus, could be spreading throughout Asia.

Kenya Wolfgang Fengler, lead economist for the World Bank, has come out to speak against the famine that is ripping through Somalia and killing thousands of men, women, and children daily.

An investigation report has been released announcing that thousands of sacks of food meant for Somalia’s drought- and famine-impacted victims have been stolen.

Somalia, and the entire Horn of Africa, is facing the most devastating drought the region has witnessed in 60 years. With soaring food prices and a lack of money, tens of thousands of Somalis are fleeing their homes, living on the brink of starvation, and dying of hunger and disease.

Although news reports have been focusing on terrorist group Al-Shabab as the primary reason why desperately needed food aid has not reached the millions of people on the brink of starvation in Somalia, new reports are surfacing that delays in food aid and funds are equally responsible for hampering relief efforts.

According to United States aid official Nancy Lindborg, the U.S. has estimated that upwards of 29,000 children under the age of 5 have died in the last 90 days since the devastating famine hit Somalia.

An Italian parliamentary commission approved a draft law on Tuesday that would ban women from wearing veils that cover their face in public.

Chinese government officials confirmed this morning that the two major suspects from the attacks this past weekend, which left up to 18 people dead in its Xinjiang region, have been captured and killed.

An Islamic poster campaign declaring areas as "Sharia Law Zones" is spreading across cities in the United Kingdom.

Chinese authorities released information on Wednesday on the rescuing of 89 minors that had been victims of child trafficking. The youngest of the 89 victims was 10 days old while the oldest was 4 years of age.