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The death toll in Myanmar is now over 22,000.
>>China/Japan - Hu Jintao arrived in Japan today for the first visit by a Chinese president in a decade. He will spend five days in Japan; to kill the time there is even a scheduled game of ping pong with the Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda. Last year, China became Japan's biggest trading partner, eclipsing the U.S. Controversial issues, like Japan's wartime record, Taiwan, and Japan's bid for a permanent seat on the Security Council, will be avoided, despite the fact that recent polling shows that the Japanese want their government to take a harder line on China. The big question is whether Hu will offer Japan another panda to replace Ling Ling.
>>Iran - Yesterday Iran called off a pending fourth round of talks with the U.S. that was intended to address security in Iraq. The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman said that continued talks "make no sense" as long as the U.S. continues attacks in Sadr City, a stronghold of the Shia Mahdi Army. State Department spokesman Tom Casey said, oddly, "It is meaningless to have talks on anything with Iran as long as they don't change their behavior. That said, we have continued to be willing and ready, and are willing and ready, to have additional discussions with the Iranians through this tripartite channel."
- No Fuel, No Food
- UN stands ready to assist after deadly cyclone batters Myanmar
- Lies and the Lying Liars
- No Fuel, No Food
- UN stands ready to assist after deadly cyclone batters Myanmar
- Lies and the Lying Liars
Africa
- Sudan - Sudan bombs Darfur school and market, 13 killed
- Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe election body to decide poll date soon
- South Africa - Mbeki releases report on controversial crime unit
- Ghana - Ghana sets curfew after five killed in tribal clash
- Rwanda - Rwanda official in genocide trial
- Kenya - Scarred by Strife After Election, Kenya Begins to Heal
- Somalia - Troops Fire on Rioters in Somalia, Killing 2
- Chile - Erupting volcano prompts new evacuation in Chile
- Haiti - Haiti riot instigators set deadline to install PM
- Bolivia - Crisis in Bolivia after vote for autonomy
- Mexico - 16 Are Killed as Gunmen Seek Rancher in Mexico
- Guatemala - Guatemala halts foreign adoptions
- Japan - China-Japan goodwill summit contends with rifts
- Taiwan - Taiwan Vice Premier Suspected of Corruption
- Japan - Gallows broadcast shocks Japan into debating the death penalty
- Myanmar - Myanmar believes 13,000 dead, missing from cyclone
- China - Dalai Lama envoy upbeat on China talks; expects more
- China - Virus epidemic kills 26 toddlers in China
- Philippines - Philippines, Peru lauded for child health progress
- South Korea - South Korea's bird flu outbreak spreads to Seoul
- Japan - Japan Steadily Becoming a Land Of Few Children
- Indonesia - Indonesia mulls Opec withdrawal
- Indonesia - Gold Miners Die in Landslide in Indonesia
- China - China shrugs off report of tropical nuclear sub base
- Serbia - Serbia's pro-Western president gets death threats
- Italy - Neo-Nazi killing puts spotlight on Italian militants
- France - Le Monde journalists in third strike
- Iran - Iran says new talks with U.S. on Iraq meaningless
- Iraq - Ten Iraqi soldiers slain in checkpoint attack
- Israel - Israel dresses up for its 60th anniversary
- Iraq - Unicef warns of Iraqis 'at risk'
- Iraq - U.S. withdrawing third 'surge' brigade from Iraq
