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China: Quake death toll could reach 50,000 (AP)

Rescue workers carry an earthquake victim evacuated by boat from Yingxiu to the Zipingpu Dam as roads are still inaccessible near Dujiangyan, southwestern China's Sichuan province, Thursday, May 15, 2008. China warned the death toll from this week's earthquake could soar to 50,000, while the government issued a rare public appeal Thursday for rescue equipment as it struggled to cope with the disaster. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Troops dug burial pits in this quake-shattered town and black smoke poured from crematorium chimneys elsewhere in central China as priorities began shifting Thursday from the hunt for survivors to dealing with the dead. Officials said the final toll could more than double to 50,000.


Date Posted : Fri, 16 May 2008 06:37:54 GMT
Myanmar junta warns against hoarding cyclone aid (AP)

In this photo released by UNICEF, workers unload aid supplies Wednesday, May 14, 2008, at Myanmar International airport, in Yangon, Myanmar.  (AP Photo/UNICEF)AP - Myanmar's junta warned Thursday it will punish anyone found hoarding or trading foreign aid meant for cyclone survivors, but relief groups said they had seen no evidence of people selling or stockpiling donated goods.


Date Posted : Fri, 16 May 2008 03:46:21 GMT
Bush, Saudis to discuss soaring gas prices (AP)

In this photo released by the Israeli Government Press Office, U.S. President George W. Bush, rides a bicycle he received as a gift from Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Israel, Thursday, May 15, 2008. U.S. President George W. Bush on Thursday criticized the deadly tactics of extremist groups like al-Qaida, Hezbollah and Hamas and said he looks toward the day when Muslims 'recognize the emptiness of the terrorists' vision and the injustice of their cause.' (AP Photo/Avi Ohayon, GPO, HO)AP - President Bush is putting the finishing touch on his celebrate-and-be-celebrated Israel stay, leaving the Holy Land with no movement on Mideast peace but hoping to fare better in Saudi Arabia at obtaining help for soaring gas prices at home.


Date Posted : Fri, 16 May 2008 06:50:59 GMT
Blast wounds dozens in Sri Lanka capital (AP)

In this Nov. 17, 2005 file photo, tsunami survivors walk near a train that was destroyed in the December 2004 tsunami to cast their votes at Paraliya village in Sri Lanka. Sri Lankans voted for a president to shape peace efforts in this country bloodied by more than two decades of civil war and devastated by the tsunami, amid reports that Tamils in the rebel-controlled northeast were being prevented from voting. (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena, File)AP - The military says a bomb explosion has wounded dozens of people in Sri Lanka's capital.


Date Posted : Fri, 16 May 2008 07:44:37 GMT
Long wait for medical care after China quake (AP)

Zhang Jiachi, who lost both his arms after his school collapsed in Shifang following Monday's quake, receives medical treatment at a hospital in Deyang, Sichuan province, China, Thursday, May 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)AP - After 11-year-old Zhang Jiazhi crawled free of the rubble that remained of his middle school, his parents began a 20-hour ordeal to get medical care for their son, whose arms were crushed to a pulp.


Date Posted : Thu, 15 May 2008 19:40:51 GMT
Red Cross: Clean water most urgent for Myanmar (AP)
AP - The international Red Cross says a lack of clean water will be the biggest killer in Myanmar in the coming days.
Date Posted : Fri, 16 May 2008 07:40:50 GMT
In Qatar, Muslim, Jewish clerics meet (AP)
AP - More than a dozen Jewish rabbis, including two from Israel, were in attendance this week as this conservative Muslim sheikdom opened one of the Gulf's first scholarly centers dedicated to interfaith dialogue.
Date Posted : Fri, 16 May 2008 07:41:44 GMT
Losing racehorses in Puerto Rico condemned to die (AP)

Chief veterinarian Jose Garcia Blanco checks the leg of a horse being treated at the veterinary clinic at Camarero racetrack in Canovanas, Puerto Rico, Friday, April 11, 2008. For thoroughbreds in this U.S. Caribbean territory, being fast enough to win, place or show is a matter of life and death. About 450 horses, many in perfect health, are killed each year by lethal injection at a clinic tucked behind Puerto Rico's only racetrack, as a shortage of options, like becoming jumping or riding horses, often means a death sentence for retired thoroughbreds. (AP Photo/Andres Leighton)AP - For thoroughbred racehorses in Puerto Rico, success can be a matter of life and death. Many losers don't make it off the racetrack grounds alive.


Date Posted : Fri, 16 May 2008 07:42:39 GMT
100 killed in new Nigeria pipeline inferno: Red Cross (AFP)

Firefighters try to extinguish a blaze in a northern suburb of Lagos following an explosion on an oil pipeline reportedly ruptured by a piece of earthmoving equipment. About 100 people were burnt to death Thursday when an oil pipeline exploded in a northern suburb of Nigeria's biggest city Lagos, the Red Cross said.(AFP)AFP - An oil pipeline explosion killed about 100 people on Thursday near a primary school in a suburb north of Lagos, the Red Cross said.


Date Posted : Fri, 16 May 2008 07:08:43 GMT
Police: 9 killed in Philippine bank robbery (AP)
AP - At least eight bank employees and a security guard were lined up and shot dead in the head Friday in a bloody Philippine bank robbery, police said. Another employee was in critical condition at a hospital.
Date Posted : Fri, 16 May 2008 07:48:01 GMT
Ageing Aussies strip in pension protest (AFP)

Pensioners brought traffic to a stand still in Melbourne, Australia's second largest city, as some stripped to demand more money from the government(AFP/File/William West)AFP - Protesting pensioners brought traffic to a stand still in Australia's second largest city on Friday when some stripped to demand more money from the government.


Date Posted : Fri, 16 May 2008 06:18:43 GMT
 

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