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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.
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Spain’s Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero, right, talks to his Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos at the 62nd session of the General Assembly at the United Nations, Tuesday, September 25, 2007.
