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IraqSun.com Thursday 15th May 2008 Issue 1485
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"There is absolutely no help here at all. We are the only outsiders they've seen, no government soldiers and no aid agencies. There is talk of entire villages having been wiped out, of numerous bodies still floating in the water. We're not sure how long the refugees can last without help from the outside world. "
CNN Reporter Dan Rivers
Rivers was reporting from a delta village in Myanmar, in the midst of the destruction wrought by Cyclone Nargis.

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Editorials
  • Sri Lanka seat on UN human rights council unjustified
  • Do we vote or strike over Prop. 98
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  • Liberal San Francisco board puts politics ahead of economic realities
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  • Rockets fly as Bush visits Israel
  • Suicide bomber kills 16 Afghans, wounds 28
  • Lebanese cabinet backs down from confronting Hezbollah
  • Gaza violence overshadows Bush visit
  • Arabs mourn Palestinian
  • Iran foils plot to blow up Russian consulate

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