U.S. to deliver supplies to Myanmar
- 05/11/2008 10:53 PM CDT
YANGON, Myanmar | Myanmar’s monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow Sunday.
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YANGON, Myanmar | Myanmar’s monumental task of feeding and sheltering 1.5 million cyclone survivors suffered yet another blow Sunday.
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The No. 2 police officer in a Mexican border city across from Texas was shot dead Saturday, the latest high-ranking official killed in an onslaught of attacks blamed on gangs resisting a crackdown.
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The saffron-robed monks who spearheaded a bloody uprising last fall against Myanmar's military rulers are back on the front lines, this time providing food, shelter and spiritual solace to cyclone victims.
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Iraq's main Shiite political bloc and supporters of firebrand cleric Muqtada al-Sadr signed a fragile cease-fire in Baghdad's Sadr City on Monday, hoping to end seven weeks of fighting that has left hundreds dead.
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Israeli police raided Jerusalem's City Hall on Monday, searching offices and confiscating documents as part of a widening corruption inquiry against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.
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