Burma official death toll jumps to 78,000
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The official death toll for Burma’s cyclone disaster has jumped to almost 78,000 people, with nearly 56,000 missing, according to state TV. Read more
China rescuers seek survivors in hard-hit town (AP)
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Among the hardest hit by the quake, Beichuan now looks like a pile of matchsticks. Mounds of debris stand seven stories high, with smoke plumes rising from some of the wreckage. Landslides raked gigantic gashes in the mountainsides. Roads leading into the county buckled like freeway off-ramps leading to nowhere, isolating its three larger towns [...]
Obama launches furious attack on Bush
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Barack Obama hurled himself into an angry confrontation with US President George W Bush yesterday after Mr Bush compared the Democratic candidate’s promise of talks with rogue states like Iran to the “false comfort of appeasement” towards the Nazis in the 1930s. Read more
Italian tolerance goes up in smoke as Gypsy camp is burnt to ground
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In cruel and unusual concert, Italy‘s new government, its police and paramilitary carabinieri, and even its gangsters, have turned their joint might against the nation’s enemy number one: the Gypsies. Read more
Palestine Is Top Issue, bin Laden Says
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CAIRO, Egypt (May 16) – Osama bin Laden said in a new audio recording released Friday that al-Qaida will continue its holy war against Israel and its allies until it liberates Palestine. Read more
Aftershocks trigger fresh panic as China thows open its door to foreign aid teams
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As a strong aftershock blocked roads with fresh rockpiles, a Japanese rescue crew arrived in the Sichuan quake zone – setting aside years of distrust and memories of cruel wars. Read more
Student pulled from rubble 80 hours after China quake
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BEICHUAN, China – A Chinese state news agency says rescuers have pulled a student to safety after being trapped for 80 hours in the debris of a school following this week’s massive earthquake. Read more
Is it Burma or Myanmar?
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However, because not all nations recognize the country’s current military leadership, not all recognize the name change. The United Nations uses Myanmar, defaulting to the nomenclature wishes of the country’s rulers, but the United States and the United Kingdom do not recognize the junta and thus still call the country Burma. Read more
The 4,000th U.S. Death in Iraq
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A roadside bomb killed four U.S. servicemen on March 23, 2008, pushing deaths to the grisly milestone of 4,000 dead. The 3,000 toll was met in 2006, the day after Saddam Hussein was executed. Read more
China’s Quake Death Toll Could Reach 50,000
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As this photo gallery of the devastation shows, some key factors are contributing to the high death toll and hampering the recovery efforts: The sheer magnitude of the damage: Many areas in Sichuan Province, home of the 7.9 quake’s epicenter, are completely leveled. Restricted access to areas in need: Roads are not only [...]
Good news for gays; bad news for Dems
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I’m all for full marriage rights and I believe that they will inevitably be granted in all 50 states. Read more
Girl With A One Track Mind On Cat Personlity Tests
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Zoe Margolis joined Anna Jones last night and explained the “felinality” tests some cat owners are taking and why computer equipment in Texas has been damaged by an ant attack. Have a look at these quirky web stories below. Tune in to Sky.Com News tonight at 7.30 for more news from the web perspective. One [...]
China Earthquake: Inquiry Into School Building Collapse As Troops Struggle To Bury Dead
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A five-year-boy has been plucked from the rubble of a kindergarten in the China earthquake zone after spending four days buried under tonnes of brick and concrete. There is no commentary on this video. Read more
CBS to buy CNET Networks for $$1.8bn
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US broadcast network CBS is buying internet publisher CNET Networks in a deal worth $1.8bn (£925m). CNET began as a technology news service but now owns a string of websites including ZDNet, GameSpot.com, TV.com and mp3.com. CBS, which bought the internet radio service Last.fm last year, said that after the CNET acquisition its websites together [...]
China quake death toll could rise to 50,000
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China warned the death toll from this week’s earthquake could soar to 50,000, while the government issued a public appeal Thursday for rescue equipment as it struggled to cope with the disaster. Read more
9-YEAR-OLD GIRL’S TWIN FOUND IN HER STOMACH
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9-YEAR-OLD GIRL’S TWIN FOUND IN HER STOMACH May 15, 2008 — ATHENS, Greece — A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday. Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered [...]
Nader to Google: Computers bad, typewriters good
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Ralph Nader, perennial presidential candidate, didn’t exactly look to be trolling for votes in his May 12 talk at the Mt. View campus of Google. The candidate, sounding just-plain-cranky, not only dissed the values of computers, the Internet and biotech — but lectured the youthful audience about good old days before the Information Age and [...]
Lebanon’s uncertain future: Civil war – again – and the spark of regional conflict?
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About last week’s fighting in Beirut between Hezbollah militants (backed by Syria and Iran) and forces supportive of the U.S.-favored, pro-Western government of Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora: Agence France Presse describes the violence as “the worst infighting since the 1975-1990 civil war” in famously sectarian Lebanon; it “left at least 65 people dead and [...]
Delivering aid to Sadr City
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Smiling excitedly, the skinny orphan clutches a new rucksack given to him by a group of Iraqi soldiers as part of a limited mission to distribute aid to the many needy people in Sadr City. Rasoul Mohamed Sharif, 12, and the other 30 boys at a ramshackle orphanage are among the lucky few to gain [...]
Irony and Integrity
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WASHINGTON — Soon after former President Alberto Fujimori was extradited to Peru to face human rights and corruption charges, his daughter Keiko, a Peruvian lawmaker, began pleading for his rights. She argued that his jail cell was too small and that he should receive family visits, appropriate care for his ailments and be able to [...]