`I LOST EVERYTHING': Residents of Dujiangyan, near the epicenter of Monday's 7.9 magnitude earthquake, spent yesterday identifying the corpses of dead relatives
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FUJIAN LEG: Officials said the route could not change without the IOC's permission, despite online protests. The torch passes through the disaster zone next month
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Nepal's government has fixed May 28 for the planned abolition of the world’s last Hindu monarchy, but the king is looking to retain a ceremonial role.

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PRESSURE: While hungry people line the roads between Yangon and the Irrawaddy Delta, aid workers said they were unable to get help to those who need it the most
Myanmar's military rulers yesterday rejected growing international pressure to accept aid workers, insisting against all the evidence that it had the emergency cyclone relief effort under control.

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Three pro-democracy activists including a US citizen — all linked to a US-based party banned in Vietnam — went on trial yesterday on terrorism charges.

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ENOUGH NOW: Troops were prepared to use force to end the six days of violence that has killed 61 people. Schools reopened in Beirut, where the situation was calm
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STILL IN CHARGE: Several ministers stayed in their old positions in the new government, while two former Kremlin administrators took new positions in the Cabinet
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FOUR-DAY RESPITE: Under the terms of the agreement, any attack against residential areas, government offices and the Green Zone from Sadr City is strictly prohibited
Iraq's main Shiite political bloc and supporters of firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr signed a fragile ceasefire in Baghdad's Sadr City on Monday that they hope will end seven weeks of fighting that has left hundreds of people dead in the capital.

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US President George W. Bush has a faulty calendar and questionable optimism when it comes to the Middle East.

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'NO FEAR OF THE PEOPLE': If the Bolivian president loses in the referendum, he would be forced to call a presidential election in between three and six months
Bolivian President Evo Morales committed himself and Bolivia's nine governors on Monday to face recall votes on Aug. 10, gambling that his unfinished term would survive a referendum whose peculiar rules tilt in the populist leader’s favor.

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An attempt to reach Florida turned into 17 days at sea for Cuban migrants crammed aboard a rickety sailboat that drifted ashore in Mexico near the Belize border.

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Haitian legislators on Monday rejected President Rene Preval's pick for prime minister, extending a monthlong period without a functioning government for the troubled country.

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The Pentagon has dropped charges against a Saudi at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was alleged to have been the so-called "20th hijacker" in the Sept. 11 attacks, his US military defense lawyer said on Monday.

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