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Nearly 3,000 Americans have signed a petition by an international aid group urging the G-8 finance ministers, meeting this weekend, to cancel Haiti's "illegitimate" billion dollar debt as Haitians struggle to endure sky-rocketing prices of food and fuel.

UNITED NATIONS, Jun 13 (OneWorld) - Millions of people across the world are more likely to face hunger and starvation due to disruption in aid deliveries caused by the rising prices of food, UN officials said this week.

The UK's House of Commons voted this Wednesday to extend the period for which terrorist suspects can be jailed without charge from four to six weeks, in what human rights advocates warn is an erosion of civil liberties.

The Ethiopian army is responsible for widespread "executions, torture, and rape" of civilians in the country's eastern Somali region, committed as part of Ethiopia's campaign against rebel insurgents, states a new report from an international human rights watchdog. Human Rights Watch

Afghan president Hamid Karzai unveiled a new 5 year plan for social and economic development at a conference to reform aid efforts to Afghanistan in Paris yesterday, writes the UN News Agency.