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Rescuers search for survivors at a damaged school following Monday's powerful 7.9 magnitude earthquake in Hanwang town in Sichuan province, China, Wednesday, May 14, 2008.

China quake toll hits 15,000 as airlift drops aid
AOL

HANWANG, China (AP) - Military helicopters dropped food and medicine to Chinese earthquake survivors who remained cut off Wednesday in remote mountain villages behind roads clogged by landslides, while the official death toll rose to nearly 15,000. As help began to arrive in some of the hardest-to-reach areas, some victims trapped for more than two...

photo: AP / Andy Wong

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The Burmese generals and crimes against humanity
International Herald Tribune

After Cyclone Nargis devastated Myanmar, killing tens of thousands of people, the world rushed...

Steinmeier's bad example
International Herald Tribune

Last September, Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel courageously broke ranks with her...

The new Cold War
International Herald Tribune

The next American president will inherit many foreign policy challenges, but surely one of the...

Bush links optimism for Mideast reform to democratic Israel

President George W. Bush is greeted by Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Mrs. Aliza Olmert as he deplanes Air Force One Wednesday, May 14, 2008, with Mrs. Laura Bush in Tel Aviv. The President and First Lady will spend two nights in Jerusalem before continuing on to Saudi Arabia and Egypt.

Philadelphia Daily News

JENNIFER LOVEN The Associated Press JERUSALEM - President Bush said Wednesday that 60 years of Israel's existence is cause for optimism for democratic change throughout the Middle East. "What happened here is possible everywhere," Bush said, opening...
photo: White House / Joyce N. Boghosian

A measure of caution as Cannes Film Festival opens

Workers roll a piece of red carpet they are about to fix onto the steps of the Cannes film festival palace, on the eve of the opening of the 61st International film festival in Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 13, 2008.

International Herald Tribune

: When the 61st Cannes Film Festival opens here on Wednesday, all the customary glamour, spectacle and high Gallic seriousness will be in place: the red carpet, the hatchet-faced guards, the shouting paparazzi, the promenading stars and bleary-eyed...
photo: AP / Lionel Cironneau

Myanmar worried by new storm warnings

View of Tropical Cyclone Nargis From Space Station

CNN

PATTAYA, Thailand (CNN) -- Survivors in cyclone-devastated Myanmar are bracing themselves for further hardship following warnings that more bad weather is imminent this week....
photo: NASA

Malaysia better than 76% of countries, says PM

The Star

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is better than 76% of the countries in the list surveyed for the Transparency International Corruption Perception Index. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi told Lim Kit Siang...
photo: Kuala Lumpur

4 questioned over deadly blasts

News24

Jaipur - Police questioned four people on Wednesday in connection with a string of bombings that killed 80 people and left about 200 injured, officials said. "We have picked them up for questioning in regards to the attacks last night but we have not...
photo: WN / Imran Nissar

Schwarzenegger to propose borrowing against lottery

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger speaks at a news conference (js1)

AOL

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will propose borrowing against future state lottery revenue to help close a budget shortfall estimated as high as $20 billion, administration officials told The Associated Press. In a revised...
photo: AP / Ben Margot

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