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Morning News


May.12   Pakistan Government set to split  Ex-PM Nawaz Sharif says his PML-N has announced it is pulling out of the government

  Myanmar First US aid plane lands in Burma  The US spent days negotiating with military government to gain permission for the aircraft to land

  Beirut Beirut peaceful as Hezbollah pulls back  Hezbollah militias pulled back from positions in western Beirut and government troops took over checkpoints there

  Southern China     Quake death toll 50,000 Map of Sichuan Province China
  80 percent of the buildings collapsed in the Beichuan Qiang Autonomous County after the 7.8-magnitude quake
 Several hundred students are also feared to be buried in collapsed school buildings. 'Five million' homeless in quake. A frightened schoolgirl was pulled safely from the rubble of a school dormitory. More than 4.3 million homes collapsed or sustained damage

Day News


  Southern China     Death toll rises in quake Map of Sichuan Province China
  The most powerful 7.8 earthquake to hit China in 30 years has killed at least 10,000 people in south-western Sichuan province
 In Wenchuan county alone, 80% of buildings collapsed, and up to 5,000 people died, with many more still trapped. President Hu Jintao has ordered troops to help with disaster relief work. Telephone lines are down, and roads are blocked by fallen rocks and boulders


  Washington Bush offers help for Lebanon army  US President George W Bush: The US is prepared to help strengthen Lebanon's army so it can disarm Hezbollah

  Japan 3 dead in 'detergent suicide' pact  Police found 3 men dead in a car parked outside a spa Monday morning, the latest in a string of suicides involving detergent

Evening News


  Pakistan   Ministers set to resign  Ministers belonging to PML-N, one of the main parties, are set to hand in their resignations, just 3 months after general elections
San Francisco Bay Area , May 12, 2008 Timeline