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US: Myanmar faces disaster over lack of aid
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Fort Mills Times
- 5 Hours ago
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WASHINGTON The director of U.S. foreign disaster assistance says skilled foreign aid workers are sitting on the sidelines as victims of last week's cyclone in Myanmar die. Ky Luu says the disaster is pushing an already vulnerable population 'right off the cliff' as supplies from those trying to help
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U.S. official: 1 shipment to be allowed to Myanmar
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Fort Mills Times
- 5 Hours ago
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WASHINGTON The governing military junta in Myanmar has agreed to allow a single U.S. cargo aircraft to bring in relief supplies for victims of a devastating cyclone, the Bush administration said Friday. White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said the United States welcomed the go-ahead to land a U.S.
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UN Due To Resume Burma Aid Flights
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Yahoo! UK and Ireland
- 5 Hours ago
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The UN is expected to resume aid flights to Burma today after charities warned of a disease epidemic of 'apocalyptic proportions'. Heavy rain forecast in the next week is expected to exacerbate the misery of an estimated 1 million survivors awaiting food, clean water, shelter and medicine. The rulin
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US Official: 1 Shipment to Be Allowed to Myanmar
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KRDO News13
- 5 Hours ago
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WASHINGTON - The governing military junta in Myanmar has agreed to allow a single U.S. cargo aircraft to bring in relief supplies for victims of a devastating cyclone, the Bush administration said Friday. White House spokesman Gordon Johndroe said the United States welcomed the go-ahead to land a U.
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Experts: Myanmar cannot run aid effort alone after cyclone
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Marshall News Messenger
- 5 Hours ago
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BANGKOK, Thailand â?? With only a few aging helicopters and little disaster experience, Myanmar's junta is risking the lives of millions of cyclone survivors by running the relief operation alone, aid experts said Friday. Since Cyclone Nargis struck a week ago, few of the estimated 1.9 million survi
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UN seeks $187 million to aid cyclone survivors in Myanmar
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KCBD
- 6 Hours ago
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) - The United Nations is seeking $187 million from donor nations to help cyclone survivors in Myanmar. U.N. officials said Friday the pledges are needed to provide food, water purification tablets and other supplies for at least 1.5 million people over the next three months. Kyaw
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Aid is on the way to devastated Myanmar but so is heavy rain
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Deseret Morning News
- 6 Hours ago
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YANGON, Myanmar â?? More aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar â?? 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 t
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UN Burma aid flights set to resume
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Newcastle Sunday Sun
- 6 Hours ago
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The UN is expected to resume aid flights to Burma after charities warned of a disease epidemic of 'apocalyptic proportions' due to supplies not getting through. Agencies have accused the country's ruling junta of delaying crucial relief work needed to help the survivors of last Saturday's cyclone th
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Burma holds referendum despite cyclone
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Yahoo! News Australia
- 7 Hours ago
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The military rulers of Burma went ahead with a constitutional referendum despite calls from the outside world to postpone it after the devastation of Cyclone Nargis. The plebiscite was postponed by two weeks in the hardest-hit Irrawaddy delta and the city of Rangoon, but voting went ahead in other p
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U.S. says it does not have permission to fly aid to Myanmar
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TV50
- 7 Hours ago
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(/File) BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - U.S. Ambassador Eric John says Washington has not been given permission to send relief flights to Myanmar for its cyclone victims. John says authorities in the U.S. and Thailand thought they had received permission from Myanmar authorities to land U.S. military C-130
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