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Saturday, July 9. 2011, 12:00:00 AM UTC

2011 Syrian uprising: Human Rights Watch issues a report claiming that Syrian Army soldiers have been issued orders to shoot protesters participating in demonstrations. //www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43695260/ns/world_news-mideast_n_africa/ (AP via MSNBC)

Goran Hadžić is detained in Serbia, becoming the last of 161 people indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

South Sudan secedes from Sudan, per the result of the independence referendum held in January.

The United Nations declares a famine in southern Somalia, the first in over thirty years.