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  • Myanmar junta hands out aid boxes with generals' names (AP)   - 

    A Myanmar resident examines houses destroyed by Cyclone Nargis in Bogalay, Myanmar, on Friday May 9, 2008.  The U.N. blasted Myanmar's military government Friday, saying its refusal to let in foreign aid workers to help victims of the devastating cyclone was 'unprecedented' in the history of humanitarian work. (AP Photo)AP - Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise.


  • Hezbollah to withdraw fighters in Beirut; 12 die in clash (AP)   - 

    Lebanon's Prime Minister Fuad Saniora speaks during a press conference at the Government House in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Saniora called on the army Saturday to restore law and order across Lebanon and remove gunmen from the streets, accusing Hezbollah of staging an armed coup. (AP Photo/Ahmad Omar)AP - Hezbollah said Saturday it was withdrawing its gunmen from Beirut neighborhoods seized in sectarian clashes after the army ordered its troops to establish security and called on fighters to clear the streets.


  • Obama rises from political obscurity to verge of history (AP)   - 

    Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., smiles during a rally in the Memorial Quad on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Ore., Friday, May 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Ryan Gardner)AP - The amazement was on their faces. Hundreds waited for Barack Obama on that evening in South Carolina, 15 weeks ago, to claim victory ? a surprising victory, surprisingly large.


  • Cease-fire reported with Iraqi militants in Sadr City (AP)   - 

    The wife of Jassim Abdul Hussein, right, mourns over his body at a morgue in the holy Shiite city of Najaf, Iraq, Saturday, May 10, 2008. Hussein was killed during clashes in Baghdad's Sadr City on Friday. (AP Photo/Alaa al-Marjani)AP - Shiite groups brokered a reported cease-fire Saturday with militants fighting U.S. and Iraqi forces in Baghdad's Sadr City as the country's army launched an offensive in Mosul against al-Qaida's main bastion in Iraq.


  • Nursery programs allow imprisoned moms, newborns to bond (AP)   - 

    Melissa Lankey, 31, of Columbus, Ind., kisses her son Kevin Cadin Michael DuLong, 3 weeks, in the Wee Ones Nursery unit at the Indiana Women's Prison in Indianapolis, Monday, April 28, 2008. Lankey sang to her three-week-old son ? not in a bedroom, but behind bars at the Indiana Women's Prison, where a new program allows some inmates to keep their newborns in their cells for up to 18 months. The program became the sixth in the nation in a growing trend among state prison systems. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)AP - Three-week-old Kevin fussed in mother Melissa Lankey's arms until she started singing softly to him, "Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so." The newborn began dozing within seconds.


  • Pollution brings end to mining town in Oklahoma (AP)   - AP - Waiting in their cars or on broken sidewalks, the blue-jeaned crowd has turned out for a parade. But they could pass for mourners at a funeral.
  • Jenna Bush's wedding is low-key affair at ranch (AP)   - 

    Commemorative cups marking the wedding day of Jenna Bush and her fiancé Henry Hager in a souvenir shop in Crawford, Texas. In a welcome break from two wars, terrorism, soaring oil prices and other woes, US President George W. Bush was to celebrate his daughter Jenna's wedding on his Texas ranch.(AFP/File/Mandel Ngan)AP - Jenna Bush couldn't see herself getting married at the White House surrounded by antique furniture and oil portraits of presidents. She and Henry Hager opted to say "I do" Saturday at President Bush's ranch in Crawford where the corn is thigh-high, roads are named Cattle Drive and the Texas flag is painted on the rooftops of barns.


  • Analysis: Good economic news something of a mirage (AP)   - 

    A 'Reduced Price' is posted at a home for sale in Palo Alto, Calif., Wednesday, April 30, 2008. The outlook for the housing market darkened further Tuesday, May 6, 2008, as Fannie Mae, the nation's largest buyer of home mortgages, said it racked up more than $2 billion in quarterly losses and forecast a steeper drop in home prices this year. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)AP - The unemployment rate drops. Productivity grows. The trade deficit shrinks. Sounds great, right? Not so fast.


  • New Carter book tells life of 'remarkable mother' (AP)   - 

    In this photo provided by NBC, showing former President Jimmy Carter, left talking with Jay Leno during the taping of 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno' in Burbank, Calif., Wednesday, May 7, 2008. (AP Photo/NBC, Paul Drinkwater)AP - Former President Jimmy Carter often sent his mother to meet with foreign dignitaries and attend state funerals, but it wasn't until he started researching a new book about her life that he learned just what the woman known as "Miss Lillian" did on those visits.


  • Cavs' Wallace unlikely to face Celtics in Game 3 (AP)   - 

    Cleveland Cavaliers center Ben Wallace, center, is helped from the floor as is leaves the court after complaining about dizziness in Game 2 of an NBA Eastern Conference semifinal basketball series against the Boston Celtics in Boston on Thursday, May 8, 2008. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa)AP - Cavaliers starting forward Ben Wallace is unlikely to play in Game 3 against the Boston Celtics on Saturday night after missing the morning shootaround because of an inner ear infection.


  • Iraqi factions agree to end Baghdad fighting (Reuters)   - 

    The body of a Mehdi army fighter who was killed in Sadr City during clashes, lies on the ground during burial in a cemetery in Najaf, 160 km (99 miles) south of Baghdad May 10, 2008. (Ali Abu Shish/Reuters)Reuters - Iraqi Shi'ite factions on Saturday reached a deal to end fighting between militia and security forces in the Baghdad bastion of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr that has killed hundreds of people, officials said.


  • Hezbollah starts withdrawing gunmen from Beirut (Reuters)   - 

    Lebanese soldiers keep watch during the funeral of Mohamed Shama'a, a pro-government loyalist who died during clashes with Hezbollah gunmen, in Beirut May 10, 2008. The Shi'ite movement Hezbollah tightened its control of the Lebanese capital on Saturday in a show of force after it routed gunmen loyal to the western-backed government. (Issam Kobeisy/Reuters)Reuters - Hezbollah on Saturday began withdrawing gunmen from Beirut and handed control of the streets to the Lebanese army, after days of gunbattles with supporters of the U.S.-backed government.


  • Myanmar holds poll despite post-cyclone chaos (Reuters)   - 

    Myanmar's ambassador to Singapore Win Myint speaks to a reporter at an aid packing centre in Singapore May 9, 2008. (Vivek Prakash/Reuters)Reuters - Myanmar held a rare election to approve a new army-drafted constitution on Saturday while many of the 1.5 million survivors of a devastating cyclone waited in vain for a concerted aid effort to bring them food and medicine.


  • Sudan rebels say they entered Khartoum (Reuters)   - 

    Fighters from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) ride in the back of a vehicle through the bush following a meeting between Khalil Ibrahim, the leader of the movement, and United Nations-African Union Special Envoys for Darfur Jan Eliasson and Salim Ahmed Salim at an undisclosed location in Sudan's Western Darfur region in this handout picture, April 18, 2008. (Stuart Price/Albany Associates/Handout/Reuters)Reuters - A Darfur rebel commander said on Saturday his JEM group had entered Khartoum and was aiming to take power in Sudan.


  • U.S. looks set to offer Israel powerful new radar (Reuters)   - Reuters - The Bush administration appears set to offer Israel a powerful radar system that could greatly boost Israeli defenses against enemy ballistic missiles while tying it directly into a growing U.S. missile shield.
  • Zimbabwe's MDC to fight run-off against Mugabe (Reuters)   - 

    Zimbabwea's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai addresses the media during a one-day visit to Maputo April 23, 2008. Tsvangirai said on Saturday he would return home within two days to contest a run-off against President Robert Mugabe and deal him a 'final knock-out' after almost three decades in power. (Grant Lee Neuenburg/Reuters)Reuters - Zimbabwe's opposition leader said on Saturday he would return home within two days to contest a run-off against President Robert Mugabe and deal him a "final knock-out" after almost three decades in power.


  • Obama gathers support as he looks to November (Reuters)   - 

    Democratic presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama steps off his plane as he arrives at Raleigh-Durham airport in North Carolina, May 5, 2008. (Jason Reed/Reuters)Reuters - Democrat Barack Obama turned his focus to a U.S. general election showdown with John McCain on Friday and said the Republican White House candidate would continue the "failed policies" of President George W. Bush.


  • U.S. says North Korea documents date back to 1986 (Reuters)   - 

    U.S. State Department nuclear envoy Sung Kim (R) and his delegation are escorted by a U.S. soldier after returning from North Korea at the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, 42 km (26 miles) northwest of Seoul, May 10, 2008. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters)Reuters - The United States said on Saturday documents handed over by North Korea detailed its weapons-grade plutonium program as far back as 1986 and were an "important first step" in getting a full declaration of the North's nuclear activities.


  • Lebanese opposition says it will end Beirut takeover (AFP)   - 

    Lebanese soldiers deploy in Corniche al-Mazraa, a tense neighbourhood of west Beirut. Lebanon's Hezbollah-led opposition has said it will end its takeover of west Beirut after the army revoked government moves against the Shiite group that sparked deadly fighting.(AFP/Patrick Baz)AFP - Lebanon's Hezbollah-led opposition on Saturday said it was ending its takeover of west Beirut after the army revoked government moves against the Shiite group that sparked deadly fighting.


  • Myanmar holds vote despite cyclone devastation (AFP)   - 

    A statue of Buddha stands among the rubble near Bogalay. Myanmar's junta is voting on a new constitution, ignoring pleas to focus on delivering urgently-needed food supplies to 1.5 million cyclone victims at risk from disease and starvation.(AFP)AFP - Myanmar's junta held a referendum on a new constitution Saturday, despite warnings more people would die unless it focussed on delivering emergency aid for survivors of last week's cyclone.


 
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