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Wrecked Myanmar leaves India aid pilot speechless 9 May 08, 21:17 ET Reuters - Miles of trees stripped of their leaves, heaps of rubble, twisted electricity poles and swarms of hungry people -- the first sights to greet Indian pilot Prashant Karde as he flew in aid for storm-wrecked Myanmar this week. more Guantanamo Cell Tours U.S. 9 May 08, 20:22 ET OneWorld.net - NEW YORK, May 9 (OneWorld) - A human rights watchdog has launched a unique nationwide campaign to force the Bush administration to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay. more Warfare in Beirut: more Mideast trouble for Bush, U.S. allies 9 May 08, 18:50 ET McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON— Iranian-backed Hezbollah's seizure Friday of large swaths of Muslim Beirut in a blow against the U.S.-backed Lebanese government is the latest in a string of setbacks to U.S. allies in the Middle East and the latest bad news for President Bush from a region that he set out to remake five years ago. more In big concession, militia agrees to let Iraqi troops into Sadr City 9 May 08, 18:45 ET McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— Followers of rebel cleric Muqtada al Sadr agreed late Friday to allow Iraqi security forces to enter all of Baghdad's Sadr City and to arrest anyone found with heavy weapons in a surprising capitulation that seemed likely to be hailed as a major victory for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki. more Train quarantined in Ontario with mystery illness 9 May 08, 17:55 ET AP - Authorities quarantined a train in Ontario Friday after a woman died and several others reported being ill. But a doctor later ruled out a serious infectious disease and said the train would likely soon resume its journey. more Foreign donors open their wallets despite Myanmar problems 9 May 08, 17:52 ET AP - The Myanmar junta's refusal to let in foreign aid workers has not stopped donors - from billionaire Bill Gates to a small British travel company - from trying to help. more Files show ties of Venezuela-Colombia rebels: U.S. 9 May 08, 17:28 ET Reuters - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's ties to Colombian rebels are deeper than previously thought, U.S. officials said on Friday, following an analysis of files on a dead guerrilla leader's laptops. more U.S. soldier fulfills his mission of getting Iraqi girl new legs 9 May 08, 17:24 ET McClatchy Newspapers - BAGHDAD— Staff Sgt. Luis Falcon, 38, was patrolling the streets of Baqouba, north of Baghdad, when he saw Shahad Abbas. The 11-year-old girl was in a large decrepit wheelchair, and the stumps of her legs where her calves should have been were crusted with dried blood. more No infectious outbreak on Canadian train: officials 9 May 08, 17:17 ET Reuters - Canadian health officials said on Friday that a death and reported outbreak of flu-like symptoms aboard a cross-Canada train were not due to an infectious disease and in fact were likely not related at all. more Canadian WW1 vet to become a Canadian citizen 9 May 08, 16:58 ET Reuters - Canada's last known surviving veteran of World War One is becoming a Canadian citizen, the government said on Friday. more England a not so green and pleasant land: tourist guide 9 May 08, 15:53 ET AFP - England, famous across the world as the country of Shakespeare, royalty, fair play and manners, is a nation of "overweight, sex-and-celebrity-obsessed TV addicts", according to a new tourist guide. more EU condemns Iran leader's 'unacceptable' anti-Israel remarks 9 May 08, 15:05 ET AFP - The EU presidency on Friday condemned "in the strongest possible terms" anti-Israeli remarks made by Iran's hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who called the state of Israel "a stinking corpse". more France plans for possible Lebanon evacuation 9 May 08, 14:21 ET AP - France is creating a plan to evacuate its citizens from Lebanon in case the country's sectarian violence spreads, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Friday. more Man loses 28 relatives in Myanmar village hit by cyclone 9 May 08, 12:06 ET AP - The 68-year-old fisherman tries to explain how a cyclone swept away the rest of his family, but he can utter only a few simple words before he is overcome by tears and trauma. more Rocket slams into BBC office in Baghdad 9 May 08, 10:22 ET AFP - A rocket hit the BBC office in central Baghdad on Friday without causing casualties, security officials and the British broadcaster's bureau chief told AFP. more Dramatic rise in Zimbabwe violence, torture: doctors 9 May 08, 08:58 ET AFP - Levels of organised violence and torture have escalated dramatically in the last fortnight in Zimbabwe amid mounting tensions over the country's disputed elections, a coalition of doctors said on Friday. more Rocket hits BBC bureau in Baghdad; no injuries 9 May 08, 08:47 ET AP - The British Broadcasting Corp. says a rocket hit the building housing its Baghdad bureau, causing damage but no injuries. more US treasure hunters dispute ocean haul with Spain 9 May 08, 08:12 ET AFP - US treasure hunters have denied allegations that 17 tons of silver and gold hauled from the Atlantic came from a Spanish galleon sunk by British warships in 1804. more Observers say Myanmar has history of xenophobia 9 May 08, 07:22 ET AP - In the eyes of Myanmar's military rulers, everyone is a potential enemy. Even foreign aid workers. more Burma (Myanmar) aid logjam riles donors 9 May 08, 04:00 ET The Christian Science Monitor - In Burma's spiraling humanitarian crisis, the international community faces a uniquely confounding scenario: how to overcome the military government's foot-dragging response. more An Arab veteran of 1948 recalls Palestinian 'catastrophe' 9 May 08, 04:00 ET The Christian Science Monitor - Mahmoud Jadallah recalls the 1948 Arab-Israeli war as if it were yesterday. As he guides a visitor through the village he once defended against Israeli forces, the names of outposts and passwords his Arab fighters used trip off his tongue. more Japan set to open up defense use of space 9 May 08, 01:07 ET Reuters - Japan cleared the way for a law allowing non-aggressive military use of space on Friday, overturning a decades-old policy of limiting space development to peaceful uses. more

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