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    Amnesty International condemns US, China in report (AP)
    AP - The United States is shirking its duty to provide the world with moral leadership and China is letting its business interests trump human rights concerns in Myanmar and Sudan, a human rights group said Wednesday. -- read full article
    Wed, 28 May 2008 05:03:38 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Myanmar keeps Suu Kyi detained, but aid continues (AP)

    In this photo released by Democratic Voice of Burma, members of the Myanmar opposition National League for Democracy party hold a banner and a portrait of party's leader Aung San Suu Kyi, during a march  protest in Yangon, Myanmar Tuesday, May 27, 2008. Myanmar's military junta extended the detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday, ignoring worldwide appeals to free the Nobel laureate who has been detained for more than 12 of the past 18 years, an official said. About 20 of the protesters were later detained. The banner reads 'Free Aung San Suu Kyi immediately.' (AP Photo/Democratic Voice of Burma, HO)AP - YANGON, Myanmar — Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi began a sixth year under detention Wednesday as foreign donors said aid would continue to flow into the military ruled nation to save cyclone victims.


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    Wed, 28 May 2008 07:43:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    China evacuates villagers after new flood threat (AP)

    Soldiers rescue people stranded on a road submerged in a flood in Qingchuan County, in southwest of China's Sichuan province Monday, May 26, 2008. Authorities are concerned about the risk of flooding from rising waters caused by dams formed when the magnitude 7.9 quake sent millions of tons of earth and rock tumbling into some of the region's narrow valleys. Some rising floodwaters have already swallowed villages. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)AP - Nearly 160,000 people have been evacuated downstream from an unstable earthquake-created dam that is threatening to collapse, and troops rushed to carve a trench to drain the water before it floods the valley.


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    Wed, 28 May 2008 06:13:59 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Minister left classified NATO documents (AP)

    In this Aug. 14, 2007, file photo, Maxime Bernier arrives to be sworn in as the new Minister of Foreign Affairs accompanied by Julie Couillard in Ottawa, Ontario. Canada's embattled foreign minister resigned for leaving classified documents in a nonsecure location, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced Monday, May 26, 2008, calling the breach 'a serious error.' Harper said that Bernier's controversial relationship with the woman was not a factor in the resignation. But it was announced as Bernier's former girlfriend, Couillard, was preparing to go on a French-language television station to say that Bernier had been careless with classified documents.  (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Paul Chiasson, File)AP - The Canadian foreign minister who resigned this week for a security breach had left classified documents about a NATO summit at the home of his ex-girlfriend, the government said Tuesday.


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    Wed, 28 May 2008 02:51:00 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    UN chief sees Myanmar cooperation on survivors (AP)

    Cyclone survivors queue for the rice from the local donator at a monastery on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, Tuesday, May 27, 2008.   More than three weeks after the storm, people huddled along roadsides, desperate for any sort of handout. The U.N. estimated less than half the 2.4 million people victimized by the May 2-3 storm had received emergency assistance. (AP Photo)AP - Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday that some foreign aid workers have gone into Myanmar's cyclone-ravaged delta without problems, reflecting a "new spirit of cooperation" by the ruling junta.


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    Wed, 28 May 2008 06:04:54 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Australian town rejects building of Islamic school (AP)
    AP - An Australian town council on Tuesday unanimously rejected a contentious proposal to build a 1,200-student Islamic school, citing infrastructure concerns. -- read full article
    Tue, 27 May 2008 13:34:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Democrat questions US aid to Pakistan (AP)
    AP - The U.S. should rethink its approach in Pakistan, including a multimillion dollar program aimed at training and equipping tribal militants, unless Islmabad does more to keep terrorists from crossing the Afghan border, a top Democrat said Tuesday. -- read full article
    Tue, 27 May 2008 18:21:55 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Zimbabwe opposition leader helps violence victims (AP)

    Morgan Tsvangirai, President of Zimbabwe's Movement For Democratic Change,  addresses displaced victims of political violence at the party headquarters in Harare, Tuesday, May, 27, 2008.  Tsvangirai announced the launch of a fund to help victims of political violence,  which he hoped would go a long way in assisting them. Tsvangirai is set to contest against President Robert in a run off election set for June 27. (AP PHOTO/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)AP - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai launched a $300,000 fund Tuesday to help victims of politically motivated violence that he said has left 50 supporters dead over the past six weeks.


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    Tue, 27 May 2008 17:40:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    6,000 tons of salmon are moved from Chile volcano (AP)
    AP - First they saved the people. Then they rescued the dogs and cats. Finally they went in for the fish — 6,000 tons of them — threatened by a volcanic eruption in southern Chile. -- read full article
    Tue, 27 May 2008 17:00:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Militant cleric urges protests on US-Iraq deal (AP)

    An Iraqi army soldier secures the reconstructed al-Sarafia bridge, Baghdad, Iraq, during the opening ceremony on Tuesday, May 27, 2008. The Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Tuesday, re-opened the al-Sarafia bridge, which was destroyed when a suicide truck bomb exploded on April 12, 2007, considering this achievement as a victory over 'saboteurs, al-Qaida, lawbreakers and ignorance,' he said in a speech. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - Militant Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr called Tuesday for followers to hold weekly protests against a U.S.-Iraqi security deal under negotiation that could lead to a long-term American troop presence.


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    Tue, 27 May 2008 18:28:28 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Cyber Terrorism Threat Growing, EU Agency Says (NewsFactor)
    NewsFactor - The European Union has a long way to go in safeguarding Internet businesses, according to the European Network and Information Security Agency. ENISA cited the possibility of a "digital 9/11." -- read full article
    Tue, 27 May 2008 18:37:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Pakistan province demanding frugal wedding parties (AP)
    AP - When Mohammad Imran was planning the dinner for his cousin's wedding reception, he had no excuse to trim the pricey menu down from six entrees. Then the government came to his rescue. -- read full article
    Tue, 27 May 2008 18:16:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Nepal swears in new assembly (AP)

    Guards walk inside the Narainhiti palace where King Gynendra is presently staying in Katmandu, Nepal, Tuesday May 27, 2008. The new assembly was sworn in on Tuesday and is widely expected to abolish the country's 239-year-old monarchy. King Gyanendra has already been asked by the maoists to leave the palace and move to a private residence as a common citizen. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)AP - Nepal stood on the brink of becoming the world's newest republic Tuesday as an assembly charged with ending 239 years of royal rule was sworn in amid tight security.


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    Tue, 27 May 2008 17:22:19 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Charity: UN peacekeepers, aid workers abusing kids (AP)
    AP - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed "deep concern" Tuesday after a leading children's charity said it uncovered evidence of widespread sexual abuse of children at the hands of U.N. peacekeepers and international aid workers. -- read full article
    Tue, 27 May 2008 18:46:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    China evacuates villagers after new flood threat (AP)

    Soldiers rescue people stranded on a road submerged in a flood in Qingchuan County, in southwest of China's Sichuan province Monday, May 26, 2008. Authorities are concerned about the risk of flooding from rising waters caused by dams formed when the magnitude 7.9 quake sent millions of tons of earth and rock tumbling into some of the region's narrow valleys. Some rising floodwaters have already swallowed villages. (AP Photo/Color China Photo)AP - About 80,000 people were evacuated Tuesday from downstream of an unstable earthquake-created dam that is threatening to collapse, and troops rushed to carve a trench to drain the water before it floods the valley.


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    Tue, 27 May 2008 18:42:44 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
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