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Burmese military government is facing growing international frustration over its slowness in accepting foreign assistance days after a cyclone devastated the south of the country. The senior American diplomat inBurma Shari Villarosa described conditions there as "horrendous". 100,000 people had died and almost all buildings had been destroyed. Kim Ghattas reports from Washington
TheUS Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged the Burmese authorities to allow the international community to help the people of Burma US has offered three million dollars in assistance and has called on Burma 's neighbors to use their influence to convince Burma US envoy to Burma Shari Villarosa said that the Burmese authorities were not blocking American aid out of retaliation for past US
InBurma
The American presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has insisted that she'll keep fighting for the Democratic Party's nomination despite disappointing results in the latest primaries. Senator Clinton was speaking at a campaign rally inWest Virginia
"I'm staying in this race until there's a nominee, and I obviously am going to work as hard as I can to become that nominee. That is what I've done, that's what I'm continuing to do. I believe that I am the stronger candidate against Senator McCain, and I believe I would be the best president among the three of us running. So we will continue to contest these elections and move forward."
But a shortage of donations has forced Mrs Clinton to lend her own campaign millions of dollars. And leading analysts say her attempt to beat Barack Obama to the nomination has run out of time and money.
TheUS military has confirmed that a former Guantanamo prisoner recently carried out a suicide attack in Iraq US force in Iraq told the BBC that they didn't know what had motivated Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi to blow himself up in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul Washington
Documents fromGuantanamo Bay described al-Ajimi as a former Kuwaiti soldier who deserted in order to fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan
Adam Brooks inWashington
A senior South African election observer says current levels of political violence inZimbabwe
"We have seen it, that people in hospital, who say we've been tortured, to be thorny soul, you've seen the pictures yourselves. You've seen pictures of houses that are destroyed and so on. I think it's important, that is my acknowledgment that there is violence that people must do something about it."
Mr. Mamabolo said the South African President Thabo Mbeki had sent a team toZimbabwe
The China Philharmonic Orchestra has performed for Pope Benedict to what's been called a landmark concert that could lead to a warming in relations betweenBeijing and the Vatican Vatican City China 's officially atheist Communist Party cut ties with the Vatican
Farmers inArgentina
The President of football's world governing body FIFA Sir Blatter says the presence of two English teams in the final of the European Champions League highlights the need to limit the number of foreign players in every team. He says he'll ask this month's FIFA Congress to prepare for a worldwide limit of five foreign players in each starting line-up by 2012. The European football body UEFA said the current English success was only the latest cycle of dominance among different European countries that wasn't connected to foreign players.
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Burmese military government is facing growing international frustration over its slowness in accepting foreign assistance days after a cyclone devastated the south of the country. The senior American diplomat in
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The American presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has insisted that she'll keep fighting for the Democratic Party's nomination despite disappointing results in the latest primaries. Senator Clinton was speaking at a campaign rally in
"I'm staying in this race until there's a nominee, and I obviously am going to work as hard as I can to become that nominee. That is what I've done, that's what I'm continuing to do. I believe that I am the stronger candidate against Senator McCain, and I believe I would be the best president among the three of us running. So we will continue to contest these elections and move forward."
But a shortage of donations has forced Mrs Clinton to lend her own campaign millions of dollars. And leading analysts say her attempt to beat Barack Obama to the nomination has run out of time and money.
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Adam Brooks in
A senior South African election observer says current levels of political violence in
"We have seen it, that people in hospital, who say we've been tortured, to be thorny soul, you've seen the pictures yourselves. You've seen pictures of houses that are destroyed and so on. I think it's important, that is my acknowledgment that there is violence that people must do something about it."
Mr. Mamabolo said the South African President Thabo Mbeki had sent a team to
The China Philharmonic Orchestra has performed for Pope Benedict to what's been called a landmark concert that could lead to a warming in relations between
Farmers in
The President of football's world governing body FIFA Sir Blatter says the presence of two English teams in the final of the European Champions League highlights the need to limit the number of foreign players in every team. He says he'll ask this month's FIFA Congress to prepare for a worldwide limit of five foreign players in each starting line-up by 2012. The European football body UEFA said the current English success was only the latest cycle of dominance among different European countries that wasn't connected to foreign players.
BBC News.
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