Burma aid 'nowhere near enough'
BBC News - 1 hour ago
Experts are warning that aid entering Burma is vastly inadequate for the scale of the disaster, although access to the cyclone-hit nation has improved.
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Serbia's pro-European bloc claims shock poll win
AFP - 44 minutes ago
BELGRADE (AFP) - Pro-Western forces in Serbia claimed victory Monday after general elections gave them a strong mandate to move closer to the European Union despite fears of a nationalist backlash over Kosovo.
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Sudan cuts ties with Chad after rebel attack
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By Opheera McDoom KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan cut diplomatic relations with Chad on Sunday after an attack on the capital Khartoum by Darfur rebels which it said was supported by Chadian President Idriss Deby.
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Fierce Fighting Breaks Out East of Beirut
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Bela Szandelszky/AP Lebanon's Hezbollah supporters smoke as they sit on the highway leading to Beirut's international airport.
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Myanmar Junta Still Blocking Much Cyclone Aid
New York Times - 1 hour ago
A young boy sits by the wreckage of a home near Kyauktan in Myanmar. More Photos > By THE NEW YORK TIMES This article is by a reporter for The New York Times in Myanmar and Seth Mydans in Bangkok.
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Zimbabwe run-off to be delayed
Aljazeera.net - 49 minutes ago
The presidential run-off between Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president, and Morgan Tsvangirai, the opposition leader, will not be held in the next few weeks, the head of the country's electoral commission has said.
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Drive in Basra by Iraqi Army Makes Gains
New York Times - 2 hours ago
By STEPHEN FARRELL and AMMAR KARIM BASRA, Iraq - Three hundred miles south of Baghdad, the oil-saturated city of Basra has been transformed by its own surge, now seven weeks old.
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No agreement on Pakistan judges
BBC News - 4 hours ago
Pakistani leaders have failed to reach agreement on restoring judges sacked by President Pervez Musharraf. Pakistan's two main ruling parties wrapped up a weekend of talks in London without reaching a deal, officials say.
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Rajapaksa Says Ballot Win Is Mandate to Fight Rebels (Update1)
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By Michael Heath May 12 (Bloomberg) -- Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa said his party's election win in Eastern Province, almost a year after the army seized the region from rebels, is a ``mandate'' to drive the Tamil Tigers from their last ...
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Nepal arrests hundreds of Tibetan women
CNN International - 3 hours ago
By Manesh Shrestha KATHMANDU, Nepal (CNN) -- Police in Nepal arrested more than 500 Tibetan protesters, nearly all of them women, on Sunday before what was to be the first all-female rally against China's actions in Tibet.
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Scandal Threatens Olmert's Premiership
Washington Post - 3 hours ago
By Griff Witte JERUSALEM, May 11 -- When President Bush travels to Israel this week, he will come knowing that if he wants to broker a Middle East peace agreement, he has only eight months left to do it.
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Arab League tries to broker Lebanon settlement
The Associated Press - 5 hours ago
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Arab foreign ministers urged warring Lebanese factions to immediately cease fighting and said Sunday they will send a delegation to try to broker a settlement between the Hezbollah-led opposition and US-backed government.
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Gaza blackouts as fuel runs low
BBC News - 11 hours ago
By Aleem Maqbool There have been widespread electricity blackouts in the Gaza Strip after the territory's only power plant shut down.
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Police suspect Fritzl in another murder
United Press International - 3 hours ago
AMSTETTEN, Austria, May 11 (UPI) -- Police in Austria say they are investigating whether Josef Fritzl, already accused of incest, was involved in an unsolved murder from the 1960s.
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4 civilians, jawan killed in encounter
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- Photo: AP Samba (JAMMU AND KASHMIR): Four civilians and an Army jawan were killed and 13 people injured during a 12-hour encounter on Sunday between security forces and two Lashkar-e-Taiba militants in Samba town of Jammu and Kashmir.
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Australian pokes shark in eye during attack
Reuters - 2 hours ago
SYDNEY (Reuters) - An Australian swimmer survived a great white shark attack by poking the creature in the eyes as it dragged him through the water after badly savaging his left leg.
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John Prescott: Why I told Gordon Brown to step down
Times Online - 9 hours ago
John Prescott threw down the gauntlet to Gordon Brown at the height of his rows with Tony Blair, telling him to resign as Chancellor and fight from the back benches.
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The ghosts of Jiang, Koizumi haunt Hu's visit to Tokyo
World Tribune - 39 minutes ago
President Hu Jintao, the quintessential Chinese Communist Party apparatchik who made it to the top by relentless kowtowing to superiors and keeping his head down in controversies, doesn’t know much about the world of the Japanese geisha.
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Memo Kevin Rudd: this is not a campaign budget
The Age - 1 hour ago
The first budget of a new government is unique. It offers an incoming administration the best chance it will have to clear the ground for itself, to demolish the badly built, voter-bribing expedients of its predecessor, and to set foundations for a new ...
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US deputy secretary of state in China for NKorea talks
AFP - 1 hour ago
BEIJING (AFP) - US Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte met with China's foreign minister on Monday as he began a one-day visit that was expected to focus on the North Korean nuclear issue.
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