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Burma will accept US cyclone aid
| BURMA will accept emergency aid from the United States, state television said today, a week after a devastating cyclone, but did not specify how it would be delivered or distributed. State televisio... (photo: .(AP Photo/Bullit Marquez))
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 The Manila Times
Myanmar 'not ready' to receive foreign aid workers
| YANGON: Myanmar said on Friday it was not ready to let in foreign aid workers, rejecting international pressure to allow experts into the isolated nation where disease and starvation are stalking cy... (photo: US Marine Corp / Cpl. Peter R. Miller)
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 The Manila Times
Putin: Still Russia's paramount leader
| Most keen observers of the Kremlin are convinced that Vladimir Putin will continue to be the paramount leader of Russia. He is, officially, only the head of government as prime minister. But his pro... (photo: Russian Presidential Press and Information Office)
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 The Manila Times
Myanmar cyclone survivors starving
| BANGKOK: Desperate survivors of the Myanmar cyclone are facing serious | health worries one week after the disaster, with everything from disease to snakebites putting ... (photo: AP / Pavel Rahman)
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 The Australian
UN savages Burma junta over bans
| THE UN blasted Burma's military junta yesterday, saying its refusal to let in foreign aid workers was "unprecedented" in the history of humanitarian work, even as survi... (photo: AP / Martial Trezzini)
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 Philadelphia Daily News
US official: 1 shipment to be allowed to Myanmar
| FOSTER KLUG | The Associated Press | WASHINGTON - The governing military junta in Myanmar has agreed to allow a single U.S. cargo aircraft to bring in relief supplies f... (photo: White House /Shealah Craighead )
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 Common Dreams
US Urged to Reform Foreign Aid
| WASHINGTON, May 8 (OneWorld) - More than 800 development and human rights activists are gathering here this week, developing and calling on Congress to implement new st... (photo: White House by Eric Draper)
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 Khaleej Times
India may ease rice curbs; supply worries linger
| MANILA - India said on Friday it may allow limited rice exports, a sign that a global supply crisis could start to ease, as Philippine traders held off purchases hoping... (photo: WN)
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 Orlando Sentinel
Myanmar crisis sends rice futures higher
NEW YORK - Rice futures surged Thursday on worries that devastation to Myanmar's rice-growing heartland could lead to widespread shortages, worsening the global food cris... (photo: WN)
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 CNN
U.N. 'furious' as Myanmar aid 'seized'
| BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN) -- The United Nations' top World Food Program official says he is "furious" over the Myanmar's government's refusal to allow the organization to... (photo: UN file)
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 Infowars
Burma death toll worse than Tsunami
| THE death toll in cyclone-ravaged Burma could hit 500,000 - more than TWICE the total killed by the Boxing Day Tsunami. | Last night's warning came as it emerged that 1... (photo: AP / Democratic Voice of Burma)
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