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Myanmar pressed to let aid in - Aljazeera.net
May 9, 2008
Myanmar pressed to let aid in
Alalam News Network
Aljazeera.net -
Myanmar 's military government has allowed in the first major international aid shipment but turned away American aid. The UN said it was "disappointed" with Myanmar over its failure to allow foreign relief workers and supplies into the country quickly ...
Myanmar says 'not ready' for foreign aid workers
Myanmar Rulers' Cyclone Response May Be Shaped by Superstition
Obama Seeks To Unify Party For November - Washington Post
May 9, 2008
Obama Seeks To Unify Party For November
Malaysia Star
Washington Post -
By Shailagh Murray and Perry Bacon Jr. Sen. Barack Obama began taking the first steps to unify the fractured Democratic Party for a general-election battle against Sen. John McCain, even as Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton continued to insist that she has ...
Race Over or Not, Obama Takes a Victory Lap
McCain likely to be outspent in election
Bolivians to hold confidence vote - BBC News
May 9, 2008
Bolivians to hold confidence vote
Peninsula On-line
BBC News -
The people of Bolivia are to hold a vote of confidence in the rule of their leftist President, Evo Morales, as he struggles to enact radical reform.
Bolivia's Morales agrees to stand for election in proposed recall vote
Bolivian president agrees to vote of confidence
Japan set to open up defense use of space - Reuters
May 9, 2008
Japan set to open up defense use of space
CBC.ca
Reuters -
TOKYO (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.
Chinese president continues his visit to Japan
Chinese president faces criticism over Tibet in Japan
Austria's dungeon man: 'I must have been crazy' - International Herald Tribune
May 9, 2008
Austria's dungeon man: 'I must have been crazy'
China Daily
International Herald Tribune -
By Mark Landler FRANKFURT: Josef Fritzl, the 73-year-old Austrian who imprisoned and raped his daughter for nearly a quarter century, said he knew his actions were wrong.
Fritzl girl planned to leave home
Josef Fritzl blames Nazis for behaviour
Negotiators Agree on Farm Bill, but Bush Vows to Veto It - Washington Post
May 9, 2008
Negotiators Agree on Farm Bill, but Bush Vows to Veto It
eFluxMedia
Washington Post -
By Dan Morgan House and Senate negotiators yesterday reached final agreement on a new farm bill that will spend close to $300 billion on nutrition, conservation, energy and farm subsidy programs over the next five years, but administration officials ...
Congress Agrees on Farm Bill as Bush Veto Is Threatened
White House, Congress fight over farm bill heats up
Sinkhole and Town: Now You See It ... - New York Times
May 9, 2008
Sinkhole and Town: Now You See It ...
Seattle Post Intelligencer
New York Times -
By RALPH BLUMENTHAL DAISETTA, Tex. - A huge and ravenous sinkhole that threatened to swallow this little East Texas oil town gobbled more crumbling earth Thursday but spared, at least for now, homes, the high school and the main road, Farm to Market ...
Huge Texas sinkhole's appetite decreasing, officials say
Huge hole swallows truck
Fossella Admits He Had an Extramarital Affair - New York Times
May 9, 2008
Fossella Admits He Had an Extramarital Affair
eFluxMedia
New York Times -
By JAMES BARRON Representative Vito J. Fossella, the Staten Island Republican who was arrested on drunken-driving charges in Virginia last week, acknowledged on Thursday that he had fathered a daughter, now 3, in an extramarital affair.
NY Congressman Acknowledges Affair, Child
NY congressman admits child from affair
Mail carriers collecting food - The Associated Press
May 9, 2008
Mail carriers collecting food
Opelika Auburn News
The Associated Press -
WASHINGTON (AP) - The annual charity food collection by the nation's letter carriers will be held Saturday. The 16th annual drive by the postal union is aiming to top last year's collection of 70.7 million pounds of food.
Community banks on food donations
Mail carriers to collect food donations Saturday
Europeans and British Leave Rates Unchanged - New York Times
May 9, 2008
Europeans and British Leave Rates Unchanged
The Southern Ledger
New York Times -
By CARTER DOUGHERTY ATHENS - The European Central Bank left its benchmark interest rate unchanged at 4 percent on Thursday, saying that the region’s economy remained resilient despite nearly nine months of financial turmoil.
ECB, BOE Keep Main Rates Unchanged to Fight Inflation (Update1)
Euro holds post-Trichet gains vs the dollar
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