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    Red Cross: Myanmar dead may never be identified (AP)

    Refugees wait to receive cooking pots as a donation from Monks at Magay teaching monastery in Ashi Dagon Myothic, about 25km (15 miles) south west of Yangon, Myanmar Saturday, June 7, 2008. Approximately 250 cooking pots or woks were given to refugees who had lost most of their possessions when Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar on May 2-3, 2008, and left 78,000 people dead and another 56,000 missing, mostly in the country's southern Irrawaddy delta region.(AP Photo)AP - Tens of thousands of people killed in last month's cyclone may never be identified because their bodies have decomposed so badly and many ended up far from home, an aid organization said Sunday.


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    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 06:56:09 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Troops blast debris slowing China quake lake drain (AP)

    Workers widen a sluice channel at the Hongshihe quake-formed lake at Qingchuan County in southwest China's Sichuan province, Saturday, June 7, 2008. Soldiers blew up wooden houses and other debris Sunday in a lake formed by China's deadly earthquake to speed the flow of water into a diversion channel and ease the threat of flooding for more than 1 million people in the sprawling disaster zone.  (AP Photo/Color China Photo)AP - Soldiers blew up wooden houses and other debris Sunday in a lake formed by China's deadly earthquake to speed the flow of water into a spillway and ease the threat of flooding for more than 1 million people.


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    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:22:30 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    First lady in Afghanistan to highlight progress (AP)

    First lady Laura Bush, center, poses for photos with White House guests during the Congressional Picnic, Thursday, June 5, 2008, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)AP - First lady Laura Bush, on a mission to highlight signs of rebirth in war-weary Afghanistan, ventured outside of Kabul on Sunday to an area that symbolizes both the destruction of war and Afghanistan's attempt at rebirth.


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    Sun, 08 Jun 2008 08:20:20 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Landslide kills two in Hong Kong: report (AFP)

    Rescue workers deploy a crane at a site in Tuen Mun were two people are trapped in a building from an adjacent mudslide during a heavy rainstorm in Hong Kong.(AFP/Andrew Ross)AFP - Two people were killed in Hong Kong on Saturday when their hut was crushed in a landslide triggered by the some of the worst rain here since records began, a report said.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:22:47 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    U.N. envoys back Congo's Kabila against Rwandan rebels (Reuters)
    Reuters - U.N. envoys met Congo President Joseph Kabila on Saturday and backed his plans to disarm and expel Rwandan rebels behind years of strife, and to refocus the biggest U.N. peace force on rebuilding his shattered nation. -- read full article
    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:25:06 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Cubans guard glasses on Lennon statue after thefts (AP)

    Cuban watchman Juan Gonzalez, smoking a cigar, gestures next to tJohn Lenon statue in Havana Tuesday, June 3, 2008. Ever since thieves twice nicked the round-rimmed wire spectacles from the nose of Havana's bronze John Lenon statue shortly after it was unveiled in 2000, four retirees have worked rotating, 12-hour day and night shifts to ensure they don't go missing again. (AP Photo/Javier Galeano)AP - All he needs is love — and someone to keep an eye on his glasses.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:14:10 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Car bombings in Baghdad leave at least 6 dead (AP)

    Firefighters throw water to burned car in Nisoor square in western Baghdad, Iraq, following a car bomb explosion on Saturday, June 7, 2008.  A suicide car bomb exploded on a police patrol in Nisoor square almost the same time of the central Baghdad explosion, killing one civilian and one policeman plus wounding 5 others, said police. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)AP - A suicide car bomb and another car packed with explosives targeted Iraqi police patrols Saturday on opposite sides of Baghdad, killing at least six people, police said.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:38:45 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Football: Czechs gatecrash Swiss party (AFP)

    Czech goalkeeper Petr Cech (C) deflects the ball during the Euro 2008 Championships Group A football match against Switzerland at St. Jakob-Park stadium in Basel, Switzerland.(AFP/Boris Horvat)AFP - A late, opportunist goal by striker Vaclav Sverkos enabled the Czech Republic to kick off their Euro 2008 campaign with a scarcely-deserved 1-0 over co-hosts Switzerland.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:49:01 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Myanmar cyclone tourism sector reels after cyclone (AP)

    Locals on Chaungtha beach in the Irrawaddy Delta region, Myanmar, Tuesday, June 3, 2008, walk along a deserted beach. Chaungtha beach is known as a popular tourist spot for both Myanmar residents and foreign visitors, but since cyclone Nargis, on May 2-3 that left 78,000 people dead and another 56,000 missing, there have been no holiday makers at all causing the entire village to suffer.(AP Photo)AP - When a taxi carrying two Westerners pulled up this past week at the Shwe Sin hotel in Myanmar's cyclone-stricken Irrawaddy delta region, cheers rang out from local residents and workers.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:39:31 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Hundreds of students still stranded in Gaza (AP)
    AP - They squander their days watching TV and surfing the Web instead of studying, but it's not for lack of discipline: Gaza students accepted at foreign universities are stuck at home because Israel and Egypt won't let them leave the blockaded territory. -- read full article
    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 16:15:34 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Water drains from earthquake-formed lake in China (AP)

    Earthquake survivors carry their belongings to move to higher grounds as the drainage has begun  at the swollen Tangjiashan quake lake at Mianyang in southwest China's Sichuan province on Saturday June 7, 2008.  (AP Photo/Kyodo News)AP - Water flowed slowly into a manmade spillway Saturday from a swollen lake formed by a landslide in China's devastating earthquake, easing the immediate threat of a flood that had led to the evacuation of more than 250,000 people.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 12:15:05 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Oil producers urged to boost output as prices soar (AP)

    Self-serve regular gasoline is advertised at one-tenth of one cent less than $5.00 per gallon, with mid-grade and premium well over that mark, at a filling station in Arcadia, Calif., Friday, June 6, 2008. Oil prices shot up more than $11 to a new record above $139 per barrel of crude after Morgan Stanley predicted prices would hit $150 by July 4. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)AP - Leading energy-consuming nations urged oil producers Saturday to boost their output to counter soaring prices threatening the world economy, while they pledged to develop clean energy technologies and improve efficiency.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:47:18 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Zimbabwe opposition says court allows rallies (AP)

    Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the main opposition party in Zimbabwe, the Movement for Democratic Change, greets people on a bus during his 'meeting the people' campaign in Nkayi near Bulawayo, Saturday, June, 7, 2008. Just three weeks before the presidential runoff, Robert Mugabe is giving the opposition no room to maneuver — harassing and threatening to arrest its candidate, banning its rallies and attacking diplomats who try to investigate political violence. Tsvangirai faces President Robert Mugabe in a crucial presidential run off set for June 27.   (AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi)AP - Zimbabwe's opposition will hold rallies in the capital Sunday following a favorable court ruling, an official said Saturday, with only weeks to go before its leader faces longtime President Robert Mugabe in a runoff.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 18:31:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Turkish headscarf ruling blow to basic rights: HRW (Reuters)

    Women wearing headscarves leave a mosque in central Ankara June 5, 2008. (Umit Bektas/Reuters)Reuters - A decision by Turkey's top court to annul a government reform which lifted a ban on Muslim headscarves at universities is a blow to freedom of religion and other fundamental rights, Human Rights Watch said on Saturday.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 08:49:07 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
    Chad, Sudan ready to try reconciliation (AP)

    Sudanese President Omar El-Bashir, right, meets with visiting delegation of U.N. Security Council ambassadors in Khartoum, Sudan Thursday, June 5, 2008. The U.N. Security Council got a firsthand look Thursday at the worsening conflict in Darfur, including a visit to a camp where violence has forced food rations to be cut in half. (AP Photo/Abd Raouf)AP - The United Nations Security Council received assurances from Chad and Sudan that they will try to reconcile following last month's rebel attack on Sudan's capital that Khartoum blamed on Chad, France's ambassador to the U.N. said Friday.


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    Sat, 07 Jun 2008 04:07:26 GMT - Yahoo! News: World News
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