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| Referendum in Myanmar despite cyclone chaos |
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 Myanmar held a rare election today to approve a new army-drafted constitution, ignoring calls from the outside world to postpone the vote amid the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Nargis.
More than a week after Nargis (Daffodil) swept up the Irawaddy Delta, packing 190 kph (120 mph) winds that whipped up a wall of sea-water pulverising everything it its path, aid was barely dribbling to 1.5 million increasingly desperate survivors. |
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| US Feminists sharply divided between Clinton, Obama |
 No constituency is more eager to see a woman win the presidency than America's feminists, yet - despite Hillary Rodham Clinton's historic candidacy - the women's movement finds itself wrenchingly divided over the Democratic race as it heads toward the finish. At breakfast forums, in op-ed columns, across the blogosphere, the debate has been heartfelt and sometimes bitter. |
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| The shame of Guantanamo Bay - View from Dubai |
 My youngest one is as old as the young son of Sami Al Hajj, the Al Jazeera cameraman who was carried home to freedom on a stretcher this week, after seven years in the Guantanamo Bay.
Watching a shockingly emaciated Hajj shower kisses on his son at a Khartoum hospital, where he has been admitted after freedom from the high security prison in Cuba, I couldn't help think about my own kids. |
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