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Myanmar cyclone death toll rises to 22,000
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YANGON: The Myanmar cyclone has killed more than 22,000 people, the
secretive nation said Tuesday, amid fears thousands of others are
also dead in one of Asia’s worst natural disasters.
With the military junta under fire over its
handling of the tragedy, foreign aid teams described scenes of
horror—rice fields littered with corpses, and desperate survivors
without food or shelter four days after the storm struck.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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There’s lack of warning on
Myanmar cyclone-UN agency
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GENEVA: The United Nations disaster reduction agency on Tuesday hit
on the absence of an early warning system after Myanmar’s cyclone
Nargis left 22,000 dead.
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Major global cyclones
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1. April 1991: Around 138,000 people are killed in Bangladesh after
tropical cyclone lashes the southern coast and causes tidal surge...
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Democrats take it to brink on primary eve
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INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana: Attacks sharpened and political pandering
stretched gullibility as Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton battled
exhaustion and one another ahead of Tuesday’s crucial White House
primaries.
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China’s Hu in Japan for reconciliation
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TOKYO: President Hu Jintao arrived in Japan on Tuesday for the first
visit here by a Chinese head of state in 10 years, as Asia’s two
largest economies try to mend fences after decades of friction.
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Maoists to be cut from terror
list
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KATHMANDU: A US diplomat said his country is doing homework to
remove the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPN-M) from the
terrorist list and eliminate Nepal from the negative travel
advisory, The Rising Nepal reported Tuesday.
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WORLDINBRIEF
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OTTAWA: Canada on Tuesday conferred honorary citizenship to
Myanmar pro-democracy activist and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi,
while demanding her release from house arrest in her homeland.
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