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| Killer quake flattens schools, homes |
| China’s most devastating earthquake in three decades killed nearly 9,000 people today, with the toll likely to soar as authorities struggle to reach casualties in large areas cut off from relief.
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| US aid lands in Yangon |
| The first US military aid flight to Myanmar landed in Yangon today but emergency supplies remained at a trickle for 1.5 million people facing hunger and disease in the cyclo
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| Sharif pulls party out of coalition |
| Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif pulled his party out of Pakistan’s six-week-old coalition government today, plunging the volatile Muslim nation back into political u
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| King in rare appearance at temple |
| King Gyanendra, facing imminent ouster from the throne, and Queen Komal made perhaps their last royal appearance at a shrine outside Kathmandu today.
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| Bangladesh elections in December |
| Bangladesh will hold a parliamentary election in December and will start talks from May 22 with parties about how the vote will be held, the head of the interim government sa
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