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09.05.2008
GENEVA - Myanmar's military leaders seized aid shipments headed for cyclone survivors and told the top U.S. diplomat there Friday that they're not ready to let in foreign aid workers despite warnings the country is on the verge of a medical catastrophe.
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09.05.2008
HARARE, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe's opposition says no one from that party will meet with the visiting South African president.
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09.05.2008
BAGHDAD - Shiite militants launched rockets toward the fortified Green Zone on Friday, taking advantage of a sandstorm that gave cover from attacks by U.S. aircraft. Some rockets fell short, including one that damaged the British Broadcasting Corp. bureau.
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09.05.2008
BANGKOK, Thailand - Myanmar's refusal to let foreign aid workers into the country has not stopped donors around the world, both large and small, from trying to help.
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09.05.2008
MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somali police are fortifying their headquarters in Mongadishu after Islamic insurgents attacked the facility in the heart of capital on Thursday.
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09.05.2008
BEIRUT - Hezbollah gunmen have seized nearly all of the Lebanese capital's Muslim sector from forces loyal to the U.S.-backed government.
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09.05.2008
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba - The message travels among Guantanamo detainees in whispers between recreation areas and shouts through slots in cell doors: Don't trust the Americans. Boycott.
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09.05.2008
VIENNA, Austria - An Austrian judge has ordered continued custody for a man suspecting of imprisoning his daughter for two decades and fathering her children.
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09.05.2008
BERLIN - Berlin's Holocaust memorial was playing host Friday to an open-air concert with musicians spreading out across a field of concrete slabs to perform a modern experimental piece.
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09.05.2008
WASHINGTON - The movement of so-called superdelegates to Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama continues to gain steam.
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