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Myanmar residents collect water as basic supplies remain scarce following last weekend's devastating cyclone in Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday, May 8, 2008. Myanmar's isolationist government blocked United Nations efforts Thursday to airlift urgently needed food aid to survivors of the cyclone that may have killed more than 100,000 people, officials sai

Burma's towns face refugee crisis alone as aid piles up
The Independent

Some have come by boat, others by truck. Some had arrived with a handful of possessions, others with just the clothes they stood in. All have remarkable stories to tell, both of their escape from the cyclone and of their friends and relatives who did not survive. Squeezed together into the ground floor of a school in this busy river port city they...

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Opinion Worldwide

It's time for an aid intervention
The Australian

WHAT are we waiting for? Where now is liberal interventionism? More than 100,000 people are...

A Mother's Day pledge
The Washington Times

How fitting is it that Mother's Day and teen Pregnancy Prevention Month are both in May. On...

Rights group unhappy that Britain did not charge ex-Sri Lankan rebel with alleged abuses
International Herald Tribune

: Amnesty International said it is concerned that Britain released a former Sri Lankan rebel...

'Ghost city' Mosul braces for assault on last bastion of al-Qa'ida in Iraq

The Independent

Mosul looks like a city of the dead. American and Iraqi troops have launched an attack aimed at crushing the last bastion of al- Qa'ida in Iraq and in doing so have turned the country's northern capital into a ghost town. Soldiers shoot at any...
photo: Army / TSGT JOHN M. FOSTER, USAF

Egyptian mediator to meet Israelis after Hamas agrees ceasefire plan

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, smiles as he is accompanied by Omar Suleiman, chief of Egyptian intelligence, following his meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, not pictured, at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheik , Egypt, Thursday, March 3, 2005. Talks focused on the results of a conference about the Middle East held by world leaders in London this we

The Guardian

· Islamists make concession to end economic crisis · Initiative comes ahead of Bush visit over peace talks , Monday May 12 2008...
photo: AP / Amr Nabil

Rigging, bombing during Burdwan polls

The Statesman

Kanchan Siddiqui BURDWAN, May 11: A series of unpleasant incidents such as booth premises ebing bombed, Opposition candidates being assaulted, ballot papers robbed and alleged rigging slapped the tag Burdwan style polling in the first phase of the...
photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick

Militants killed in Afghani raids

A soldier from the Afghanistan Security Guard (ASG) stands guard a traffic control point (TCP) in Bella, Afghanistan, Feb. 15, 2008. The ASG man the only TCP around Bella 24-hours a day

The Australian

US-LED and Afghan troops killed several insurgent fighters in a series of operations across Afghanistan over the weekend, including one targeted at bombmakers, the forces said. Another eight militants were killed in the operations against...
photo: US Army / Spc. Jordan Carter

'No government help' in Burma

A fallen tree and destroyed house left in the wake of Cyclone Nargis in Rangoon, Burma May 5, 2008.

BBC News

A Rangoon resident, who wanted to remain anonymous, said there was no government help for people affected by the cyclone. He...
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In Burma, Fear Trumps Grief

A large sign rests on a damaged house following Cyclone Nargis in Rangoon, Burma May 5, 2008.

Time Magazine

She told me how the torrent of water stole away her one-year-old daughter. With one child gone, all San San Khing could do was clasp her five-year old son to her chest and hope. By the time the tidal surge triggered by cyclone Nargis receded on May...
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