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China: Quake death toll could reach 50,000
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 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.
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| Date Posted : Fri, 16 May 2008 06:37:54 GMT |
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Myanmar junta warns against hoarding cyclone aid
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 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.
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| Date Posted : Fri, 16 May 2008 03:46:21 GMT |
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Bush, Saudis to discuss soaring gas prices
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 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.
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| Date Posted : Fri, 16 May 2008 06:50:59 GMT |
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Blast wounds dozens in Sri Lanka capital
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 AP - The military says a bomb explosion has wounded dozens of people in Sri Lanka's capital.
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| Date Posted : Fri, 16 May 2008 07:44:37 GMT |
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Long wait for medical care after China quake
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 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.
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| Date Posted : Thu, 15 May 2008 19:40:51 GMT |
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Red Cross: Clean water most urgent for Myanmar
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| 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 |
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In Qatar, Muslim, Jewish clerics meet
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| 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 |
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Losing racehorses in Puerto Rico condemned to die
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 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.
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| Date Posted : Fri, 16 May 2008 07:42:39 GMT |
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100 killed in new Nigeria pipeline inferno: Red Cross
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 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.
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| Date Posted : Fri, 16 May 2008 07:08:43 GMT |
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Police: 9 killed in Philippine bank robbery
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| 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 |
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Ageing Aussies strip in pension protest
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 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.
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| Date Posted : Fri, 16 May 2008 06:18:43 GMT |
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