The UN has said it will resume aid flights to Burma on Saturday. The World Food Programme had suspended deliveries to the cyclone struck country after two aid planes were impounded by the regime on Friday.
In the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis, which has left more than a million people homeless, aid is still only trickling into the country. The Burmese Foreign Ministry continues to maintain it is not in a position to receive foreign relief workers, saying it is responding to the crisis with its own resources. Human rights group Amnesty International has criticised the junta for going ahead with a referendum at the weekend German Politicians Unwilling to Get Behind Wheel of Green Cars ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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