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 AP - More aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar but so is the heavy rain. A week after Cyclone Nargis flattened low-lying villages and killed whole families at a time, the military junta finally agreed Friday to allow a U.S. cargo plane to bring in food and other supplies to the isolated country. Myanmar gave the green light after confiscating other shipments, prompting the U.N. to order a temporary freeze in shipments.
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 AP - Unchallenged by Lebanon's army, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah routed Sunnis loyal to the U.S.-allied government and seized control of large swaths of Beirut's Muslim sector Friday in a telling demonstration of its military prowess.
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 AP - Gaza attackers sent mortar shells crashing into a border community late Friday, killing an Israeli in his garden and wounding three others, officials said. Israel retaliated with missile strikes that left five Hamas militants dead.
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 AP - The 68-year-old fisherman tried to explain how a cyclone swept away his entire family, but could utter only a few words before he was overcome by tears.
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 AP - For 13 years, he has eluded capture for atrocities a U.N. judge described as "scenes from hell ... written on the darkest pages of human history."
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 AFP - Wayne Rooney is set to hand Manchester United a massive boost by declaring himself fit to take part in this weekend's dramatic finale to an exhilarating Premier League title battle.
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AP - As of Friday, May 9, 2008, at least 4,073 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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 AP - President Felipe Calderon said Friday the killing of an acting federal police chief was an attempt by weakened gangs to counter his fight against drug trafficking.
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 Reuters - South African leader Thabo Mbeki and
President Robert Mugabe held talks on Friday on Zimbabwe's
election crisis ahead of a possible run-off that has raised
fears violence could escalate.
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 AP - Voting began Saturday across most parts of this cyclone-ravaged nation on a referendum for a controversial constitution, but balloting was delayed for two weeks in the hardest hit areas, including the capital.
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 AP - Barack Obama all but erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among national convention superdelegates on Friday and won fresh labor backing as elements of the Democratic Party began coalescing around the Illinois senator for the fall campaign.
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 AP - With the racially tinged Democratic race drawing to an awkward close, Barack Obama and John McCain face the challenge of winning over "Hillary Democrats" the white, working-class voters who favored the former first lady over Obama's historic candidacy.
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 AP - Campaigning a few miles from each other Friday, Barack Obama trained his eye on November and the GOP, while Hillary Rodham Clinton battled for her political life, trying to hang on a bit longer in hopes of denying him the Democratic presidential nomination.
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 AP - Daniel Suson has a doctorate in astrophysics and has worked on the superconducting super collider and a forthcoming NASA probe. Now he's heading back to school to take on an even trickier task getting elected to public office.
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Politico - The sun may be setting on Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign. But it is only just rising on what promises to be months of obsessive speculation, cheerleading and naysaying in a media and political circles on the next question: Clinton for vice president?>>Full Story
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 AP - Republican John McCain on Friday disputed blogger Arianna Huffington's contention that she heard him say he voted against President Bush in 2000.
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 AP - Her voice raspy, her tone determined, Hillary Rodham Clinton urged her supporters Thursday to ignore the political pundits who have declared her toast.
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 AFP - Barack Obama's White House drive picked up pace Friday with more superdelegates rallying to his side, as former rival John Edwards all but endorsed his campaign.
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 AP - Partners of Chinese women who were forced to have abortions are pressing the Supreme Court to make it easier to get asylum in the United States.
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