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Breaking News Sun, 11 May 2008
Myanmar woman, who survived last week's destructive cyclone Nargis, emerges from her house as she prepares a meal outdoors in the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, on Sunday May 11, 2008.
Aid   Disease   Myanmar   Photos   Slideshow   Water  
 Ananova 
1.5m Burmese in danger - Oxfam
| The lives of up to 1.5 million Burmese cyclone victims are in danger from diseases if clean water and sanitation are not provided soon, Oxfam has warned. | The charity's regional chief, Sarah Irelan... (photo: AP / )
Myanmar soldiers unload boxes of supplies from a Thai transport plane at Yangon airport in Myanmar Tuesday, May 6, 2008. Myanmar's Irrawaddy delta, where nearly 22,000 people perished, remained largely cut off from the rest of the world Tuesday, four days after a cyclone unleashed winds, floods and high tidal waves on the densely populated regio
Aid   Burma   Disaster   Photos   UN  
 USA Today 
More aid finally reaching Burma's cyclone victims
Posted  | Comment  | Recommend | | | Rangoon, Burma (AP) — Food and water reached cyclone victims in greater amounts Sunday after many roads were cleared, but there was no sig... (photo: AP / )
Sunni supporters of majority leader Saad Hariri hold a picture of slain former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, as they burn the contents of an office belonging to the Lebanese chapter of Syria 's ruling Arab Baath socialist party during clashes in the northern city of Tripoli, Lebanon, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Seeking to stop the country's slide toward all-out sectarian strife, the Lebanese army command ordered it troops Saturday to establish security and called on all parties to withdraw their gunmen and reopen roads while offering Hezbollah a compromise settlement  BBC News 
Lebanese violence reaches Tripoli
| Fighting has been reported through the night in the Lebanese city of Tripoli between Hezbollah sympathisers and supporters of the government. | Machine-guns and rocket-propelled grenades are being u... (photo: AP / )
Hezbollah   Lebanon   Photos   Tripoli   War  
Activists of the "Self-Determination" political movement march during a protest against Serbia's local and parliamentary elections, in Kosovo's capital Pristina on Friday, May 9, 2008.  The Post IE 
Serbs face their toughest electoral decision yet
The Balkans country is engulfed in a bitter dispute over today’s election, which will determine whether it moves a step closer to EU membership, writes Tom Lynch. | Serbian voters go to the polls toda... (photo: AP / Visar Kryeziu)
EU   Election   Photos   Serbia   Slideshow   Vote  
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Lebanese soldiers sit on trucks as they move in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Witnesses and police say a Shiite shop owner in Beirut opened fire on a funeral procession in a Sunni neighborhood Saturday, killing two and wounding six, a day after Shiite gunmen swept through the Lebanese capital's Muslim sector. Some 25 people have died in four days of violence. Gulf Daily News
Army Steps In
| BEIRUT: Hizbollah last night began withdrawing gunmen from Beirut and handed control of the streets to the Lebanese army, after days of gunbattles with government suppo... (photo: AP / Lefteris Pitarakis)
Beirut   Hizbollah   Military   Photos   War  
Sudanese army soldiers ride in the back of a truck escorting another truck full of prisoners, not pictured, through the streets of central Khartoum in Sudan, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2004. Facing threatened international action over alleged genocide in Darfur, Sudan's leaders are using their enemies and weaknesses as strengths - saying the country could easily break apart under outside pressure, bringing tribal warfare and a resurgence of the fundamentalists who once let Osama bin Laden make Sudan his hom The Star
Sudan says rebel attack on Khartoum defeated
| KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Darfur rebels fought with Sudanese government troops in a western suburb of the capital on Saturday and said their aim was to take power in Khartou... (photo: AP / Ben Curtis)
Chad   Darfur   Military   Photos   Sudan  
A tornado damaged home is seen through a cracked windshield of a truck, Kansas City Star
NC governor: 100 homes, business damaged in deadly tornado
| A deadly tornado that raked across three counties damaged about 100 homes and businesses, Gov. Mike Easley said as he toured the path of destruction Saturday. | Easley ... (photo: AP / Mike Wintroath)
Aid   Disasters   Photos   Slideshow   Tornado   US  
 A Palestinian woman sits in near darkness in a room lit by a lantern after electricity was cut in the area of Gaza City, Aug. 21, 2007. A Palestinian company cut off power to parts of the Gaza Strip after Israel closed a crossing through which fuel is br Canada Dot Com
Fuel shortage forces Gaza blackout
| GAZA - A fuel shortage forced the Gaza Strip's main power station to shut down on Saturday, leaving much of the Hamas-controlled territory without electricity, a senior... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
Electricity   Fuel   Gaza   Israel   Photos   Slideshow  
Pope Benedict XVI waves as he arrives at St. Josephs Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y. on Saturday, April 19, 2008. CNN
Pope: Sex can become 'like a drug'
| VATICAN CITY, Italy (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI on Saturday acknowledged that the Vatican's teaching against birth control was difficult as he praised a 1968 Church docum... (photo: AP / Lucas Jackson, Pool)
Contraceptives   Drug   Photos   Pope Benedict XVI   Slideshow   Vatican  
Lebanese soldiers patrol the streets as unrest continues in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, May 10, 2008. CNN
PM urges Lebanese army to halt Hezbollah 'coup'
| BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- Prime Minister Fouad Siniora accused Hezbollah of trying to stage a "militant coup d'etat" on Saturday in his first public comments since viole... (photo: AP / Bela Szandelszky)
Beirut   Defence   Fighting   Hezbollah   Photos   Slideshow  
Africa America
- South Africa's Hennie Otto wins Italian Open
- South Africa's Otto wins Italian Open
- Mbeki's Letter to Justice Minister Made Public
- Tsvangirai to confront Mugabe in run-off vote
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe greets party supporters at a rally in Mvurwi, about 160 kilometres (100 miles) north of Harare, Zimbabwe, Friday, March, 14, 2008. Mugabe called people to vote for him in the upcoming presidential elections set for March 29
Zimbabwe opposition seeks peacekeepers for run-off
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- Gwynne Dyer: Healthcare Obama's likely preferred cure fo
- European DNA meat-tracing spreads to US
- Tech firm cracks the US market
- Safety Review Of Bush trails
Meat - Red Meat - Beef - Food - Health   (rhubie)
European DNA meat-tracing spreads to US
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Australia Europe
- Child sex fears over volunteers
- Escalating family violence, economy blamed
- Melbourne still No.1 for shopping
- Shell premium fuels available today
INDIA-FRUIT-MARKET
Surging food prices bite across Asia
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- European DNA meat-tracing spreads to US
- Bulls push oil over US$126
- Chaplin's granddaughter to star
- Prague zoo on mission to save gharial
Meat - Red Meat - Beef - Food - Health   (rhubie)
European DNA meat-tracing spreads to US
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Asia Middle East
- Michael Richardson: Oil prices conceal major power rift
- Polaris chairman released on bail after questioning
- KMT offers part of bill for review
- Buddhists hold minute of silence for Nargis victims
Shakel Ahmed, 28, left,whose kidney was removed, recovers at city civil hospital as his mother father sit near him, in Gurgaon, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2008. Ahmed is one of three people who were rescued by police from the illegal transplant racket that allegedly removed kidneys from up to 500 poor laborers and sold their organs to wealthy clients.
Kidney market shut as Pakistan cuts supply
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- Guns fall silent in Baghdad militia bastion of Sadr City
- UAE holds 7 most expensive car plates
- Baghdad district calm after truce
- Gaza blackouts as fuel runs low
Rice - Crop - Crops - Agriculture - Food
UAE rice importers call for 25% subsidy
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