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Myanmar’s military rulers have thrown a tightening ring of security around Yangon, blocking aid workers, foreign diplomats and journalists from reaching cyclone-battered regions where millions need food and medicine.
France criticized Myanmar’s military junta on Friday for refusing to allow a French Navy ship with 1,500 tons of aid for victims of Cyclone Nargis to deliver food and medicine with small boats and helicopters.
Supplies from U.S. relief flights were given directly to nongovernmental organizations Friday to help with the aftermath of Myanmar’s disastrous cyclone, the State Department said.
John McCain’s campaign is asking staff members to disclose all previous lobbying ties following the resignation of two officials linked to a firm that worked for Myanmar’s military junta.
The cyclone’s official death toll has nearly doubled to almost 78,000 and another 56,000 people remain missing two weeks after the devastating storm, state television reported Friday.
The United Nations said Friday that severe restrictions by Myanmar’s military junta have left aid agencies largely in the dark about the extent of survivors’ suffering, two weeks after a killer cyclone left up to 2.5 million people destitute.
The international Red Cross says a lack of clean water will be the biggest killer in Myanmar in the coming days.
Myanmar’s junta warned Thursday it will punish anyone found hoarding or trading foreign aid meant for cyclone survivors, but relief groups said they had seen no evidence of people selling or stockpiling donated goods.
The United Nations wants to send its top emergency relief coordinator to Myanmar _ if he can get a visa from the ruling military junta.
The U.N. secretary-general has decided to dispatch his top emergency relief coordinator to Myanmar _ if he can get a visa from the nation’s military rulers.
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Louis Michel, the EU development commissioner, answers a question during a news conference at Suvarnabhumi international airport after his two-day trip to Yangon, Myanmar Friday, May 16, 2007. Michel said he was cautiously optimistic that Myanmar’s...
