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KelleyStanfield

News International has said a May 2007 letter from the firm had made it believe that hacking was a "matter of the past" and confined to a single rogue reporter. Save the Children's Sonia Zambakides told the BBC the situation in Somalia was shocking. "I was talking to mothers with children, the children looked maybe nine months to one year old - the mothers were telling the children were three and four years old, so they are absolutely tiny." The protester accused of throwing shaving foam at Rupert Murdoch is charged with a public order offence UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said new funds to help the country were desperately needed.

RhyneVillegas

The UN said the humanitarian situation in Somalia's southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle districts had deteriorated rapidly and declared them to be suffering a famine. The UN has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as the region experiences the worst drought in more than half a century. She said some of the mothers had walked up to six days with no food to try to find help. But US aid officials say assurances must be given that the insurgents will not interfere with its distribution. She said there had been a "surge of inquiries and requests for assistance from the public and solicitors".

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The protester accused of throwing shaving foam at Rupert Murdoch is charged with a public order offence Mr Cameron said the public inquiry would be widened to examine broadcasters and social media and named the panel The UN said the humanitarian situation in Somalia's southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle districts had deteriorated rapidly and declared them to be suffering a famine. But US aid officials say assurances must be given that the insurgents will not interfere with its distribution. She said some of the mothers had walked up to six days with no food to try to find help. Save the Children's Sonia Zambakides told the BBC the situation in Somalia was shocking.

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The US considers al-Shabab a terrorist group and last year stopped aid to the large area of Somalia it controls. Those conditions include more than 30% of children being acutely malnourished, and four children out of every 10,000 dying daily. She said the US had already provided $431m this year in emergency aid to the Horn of Africa, but that was "not enough". Al-Shabab, an al-Qaeda-affiliated group which controls large swathes of south and central Somalia, had imposed a ban on foreign aid agencies in its territories in 2009, but has recently allowed limited access. The UN has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as the region experiences the worst drought in more than half a century.

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Meanwhile, News of the World owner News International said it had authorised law firm Harbottle & Lewis to answer any questions from Scotland Yard and the Commons home affairs committee about its work for the company. Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Sue Akers said the move came after a "significant increase in the workload" over the past fortnight. Mr Cameron said the public inquiry would be widened to examine broadcasters and social media and named the panel The UK Secretary of State for International Development, Andrew Mitchell, said the response by many European and developed countries to the crisis in the Horn of Africa had been "derisory and dangerously inadequate". In April 2010 US President Barack Obama issued an executive order naming al-Shabab a terrorist organisation, meaning no US aid could go to areas under its control, our analyst adds. Drought, conflict and poverty have now combined to produce the necessary conditions for famine. News International's parent company News Corporation has also confirmed it has stopped paying the legal fees of former private detective Glenn Mulcaire, who was convicted of phone hacking on behalf of the News of the World in 2007.