YANGON: Myanmar residents awoke Sunday to devastation after tropical
cyclone Nargis tore through swathes of the country, battering
buildings, sinking boats and causing unknown casualties, officials
said.
The cyclone also ripped down power and phone
lines, cutting off the military-run nation just a week before a
crucial referendum on its new constitution, the first polling in
Myanmar since general elections in 1990.
ANKARA: More than 150 Kurdish rebels from the separatist
Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed in Turkish bombing
raids carried out in northern Iraq this week, the Turkish army said
Saturday.
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