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New Orleans searches for dead and living
Death toll could be thousands
A week after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans yesterday searched for growing numbers of its dead from the city's worst catastrophe and had not given up on finding more of the living.
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Lankan Marxists back PM for presidency
Rajapakse agrees to redraft truce
Sri Lanka's influential Marxist party said yesterday it would support Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapakse for the presidency after he promised to drop plans for a federal state, redraft a truce with Tamil
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Grateful Asia offers aid for Katrina victims
Asian countries that benefited from US aid when they were hit by natural disasters in the past were lining up yesterday to extend assistance to Americans left homeless by Hurricane Katrina.
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Manmohan starts talks with Kashmir rebels
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh yesterday began the first talks between an Indian leader and Kashmiri separatists since the start of a bloody rebellion in Kashmir in 1989.
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Lack of cash for vaccines overcrowding hospitals
Encephalitis toll rises to 468 in N India
The death toll from a Japanese encephalitis outbreak in northern India rose to 468 yesterday as more children died overnight, with officials blaming lack of cash for vaccines and overcrowded hospitals
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States struggling with refugees
With a shattered New Orleans all but emptied out, an unprecedented refugee crisis unfolded across the country Sunday, as governors and emergency officials rushed to feed, clothe and shelter more thana
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Bomb threats to 11 Tokyo hospitals
Major university hospitals in Tokyo have received a barrage of bomb threats linked to demands that medical schools increase their admissions, a news report and authorities said yesterday.
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