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Boat carrying aid for Myanmar cyclone victims sinks :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: World (World, 41 articles)
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NAYPYITAW Myanmar U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, on a mission to open Myanmar to international disaster assistance, said the ruling junta agreed Friday to allow "all aid workers" into the country to help cyclone survivors. YANGON, Myanmar Myanmar's military rulers have approved visas for dozens of international relief workers and were allowing more foreigners into areas devastated by a cyclone that left millions in need of aid, the United Nations said Thursday. Today, Karen leaders and aid workers fear that the 60-year old conflict may be part of the reason the government of Myanmar is aiding some people and not others in the southern region devastated by the May 3 cyclone. WASHINGTON First lady Laura Bush on Monday said the United States stands ready to pump more aid into Myanmar to help its recovery from a cyclone so devastating the death toll could top 10,000. BRUSSELS, Belgium - European Union nations urged Myanmar's military leaders Tuesday to let in international aid to cyclone victims, saying that failure to do so could amount to a crime against humanity. GENEVA Travel and visa obstacles on Tuesday hampered aid deliveries to the hundreds of thousands of people in Myanmar now believed to be homeless after the devastating cyclone, officials said.
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U.S. military: 3,500 Troops set to leave Iraq :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: World (World, 28 articles)
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BAGHDAD U.S. troops killed two suspects, captured 31 others and destroyed bomb-making materials over the past two days in raids targeting al-Qaida in Iraq in central and northern swaths of the country, the military said Monday. The military also said that a U.S. soldier died of wounds suffered in a roadside bomb that struck the soldier's vehicle during a combat patrol in eastern Baghdad Friday. BAGHDAD Al-Qaida fighters and other Sunni insurgents have largely scattered from the northern city of Mosul in the face of a U.S.-Iraqi sweep, an Iraqi commander said Sunday.
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Palestinian officials: Israel offers new West Bank proposal :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: World (World, 14 articles)
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Israel and Hamas may be inching toward a cease-fire that would end attacks by both sides and, perhaps, loosen the siege imposed on the impoverished Gaza Strip. Palestinians say Israel is undermining peace moves through its continued settlement activity, a far-flung network of Israeli travel barriers in the West Bank and continued Israeli arrest raids in areas nominally under the control of Palestinian control. JERUSALEM In sweeping comments Monday before Israel's 60th anniversary, Israeli President Shimon Peres compared the Iranian nuclear threat to Hitler's Germany and said engaging Gaza's Hamas rulers would be like talking to a wall.
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China's post-quake challenge: 5 million homeless :: CHICAGO SUN-TIMES :: World (World, 28 articles)
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China says death toll in quake more than 51K BEICHUAN, China China said the death toll from last week's powerful earthquake jumped to more than 51,000, as it appealed Thursday for millions of tents to shelter homeless survivors. Three weeks after the quake struck Sichuan province, the Health Ministry said authorities were working to ensure the safety of drinking water and food, checking public health conditions and were disinfecting bodies. Some 14,207 companies in Sichuan province and surrounding areas were damaged by the May 12 quake and 1,387 of their employees killed, a deputy industry minister, Xi Guohua, said at a news conference.
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ABC News: Mugabe Leaves Zimbabwe for Rome Summit (World, 15 articles)
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Western leaders expressed outrage yesterday as Robert Mugabe flew into Rome in defiance of an EU travel ban to attend a United Nations world food summit while millions of people are starving under his brutal rule in Zimbabwe. Delegations from 162 countries, gathered in Rome to seek ways out of a global food crisis, will be addressed today by President Mugabe of Zimbabwe. In the latest move against the Zimbabwean opposition in advance of runoff elections on June 27, the police arrested two prominent politicians on Sunday in their homes, opposition officials said.
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China Lists Dos and Don’ts for Olympics-Bound Foreigners (World, 9 articles)
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BEIJING A Chinese mountaineering team took the Olympic flame to the top of the world Thursday, a spectacular feat dreamed up to underscore China's ambitions for the Beijing games. The climbers could be heard struggling for breath in a live television broadcast as five torchbearers each shuffled a few feet before passing on the flame to the next person. The final torchbearer, a Tibetan woman named Cering Wangmo, stood silently on the peak with her torch while other team members unfurled small Chinese and Olympic flags.
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Suicide bomber targets Danish embassy in Pakistan (World, 10 articles)
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At least six people have been killed and 30 injured in a car bomb attack near the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital Islamabad. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (CNN) A massive blast targeting the Danish Embassy in Pakistan Monday killed at least six people and wounded as many as 18, authorities said The blast will raise fresh questions about the safety of foreigners in Pakistan, even though militant attacks have dropped off since a new government came to power after a February general election vowing to negotiate to end violence.
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A Profile of Cuba's Fidel Castro (World, 7 articles)
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After years of frustration, Cubans have been granted a series of small but significant freedoms by their new leader, who has vowed to do away with the "excess of prohibitions" built up during half a century of communist rule. Since taking over from his older brother as President, Raul Castro has moved to ease some of the restrictions on the island's population. Now Cubans are allowed to buy some consumer goods in US dollars, including DVD players, mobile phones and computers (although not with an internet connection).
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Two more states in Bolivia vote for autonomy (World, 4 articles)
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LA PAZ, Bolivia (CNN) People in two Bolivian states celebrated what they viewed as a victory Sunday night in referendums on autonomy from the central government. The autonomy measure passed with 89 percent of the vote in the state of Beni and 85 percent of the vote in the state of Pando, according to initial exit polls. The votes highlight a dispute between the central government of President Evo Morales the country's first indigenous president and several eastern states that are rich in oil and gas reserves.
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NATO: 10 militants killed in Afghan battle (World, 7 articles)
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NATO military aircraft supported Afghan police in a 12-hour firefight in western Afghanistan that killed at least 10 militants, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said Monday. A spokesman for the police in western Afghanistan, Haji Raouf Ahmedi, said 150 militants attacked a police checkpoint Sunday, triggering the daylong battle in Murghab district, near the border with Turkmenistan. KABUL, Afghanistan A roadside bomb hit a bus Tuesday in western Afghanistan, killing eight civilians, while another roadside bomb south of the capital left four Afghan police dead, officials said.
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U.N. Nuclear Inspectors to Visit Syria (World, 7 articles)
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Indirectly disagreeing, the agency said that Iran continued to deny such activities, dismissing evidence to the contrary submitted for its perusal as misleading or false. The visit, to a desolate spot on the Euphrates River some 90 miles north of the Iraqi border, is to take place June 22 to 24. (CNN) United Nations nuclear inspectors will visit Syria later this month to investigate allegations that the country was building a nuclear reactor at a site attacked by Israel last September, officials said.
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UN OKs foreign ships to fight Somali pirates (World, 5 articles)
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BERLIN A German shipping company confirmed Friday that its vessel the MV Lehmann Timber is one of two hijacked by pirates off the coast of Somalia earlier this week. United Nations (CNN) The U.N. Security Council on Monday gave nations new powers to pursue pirates into the waters off Somalia, an effort to combat a new spate of hijackings off the Horn of Africa. The unanimous resolution calls on U.N. members to use " all necessary means to repress acts of piracy and armed robbery and authorizes warships to chase pirates into Somali territorial waters if necessary.
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Cécilia stole my Sarkozy, says French President's first wife (World, 4 articles)
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PARIS, France (CNN) A regional train in southeastern France crashed into a school bus killing six children in the Haute-Savoie department Monday morning, said regional authorities in Annecy. The bus was transporting the children from College ge Margencel as part of a history class field trip to visit medieval sites, said Patrick Bermond The Transportation Minister Dominique Bussereau, Interior Minister Michele Alliot-Marie and the director of French railways were traveling to the crash site to inspect what happened.
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