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Morning News


May.27   Southern China     Aftershocks demolish homes Map of Sichuan Province China
  2 aftershocks have destroyed about 420,000 houses in the region hit by an earthquake two weeks ago
  'Quake lake' area evacuated


  UN     6-year-olds forced into sex for food  Humanitarian aid workers and United Nation peacekeepers are sexually abusing small children in several war-ravaged and food-poor countries

  Myanmar     Junta extends Suu Kyi house arrest  Military rulers have extended the 5-year detention of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi by another 6 months

  Southern Afghanistan 12 dead as violence erupts  A roadside bomb struck a minibus in southwestern Afghanistan, killing eight civilians and wounding one

  Southern China Thousands flee over 'quake lake' fears  Authorities evacuated thousands of people as engineers prepared to blast a potentially dangerous lake created by landslides

  Moscow Russian justice 'fails thousands'  Prosecutor-general Yury Chaika has admitted that thousands of people are wrongly charged with criminal offences in the country each year

Day News


  Berlin Berlin remembers persecuted gays  Germany has inaugurated a 600,000 euro concrete memorial to honour the thousands of homosexuals persecuted by the Nazis

  Nepal Nepal swears in new assembly  Nepal stood on the brink of becoming the world's newest republic after swearing in an assembly charged with ending 239 years of royal rule

  Baghdad Al Sadr: Let Iraqis decide on U.S. troops  Shiite cleric: An agreement between the U.S. and Iraq to allow U.S. troops to remain operating in Iraq past 2008 should be put to a referendum

  Brazil Environment chief sworn in  Carlos Minc has being sworn in amid concern among environmentalists over whether he will be able to curb Amazon deforestation

Evening News


  Global   World 'failing on human rights'
  Amnesty International: People are still being tortured or ill-treated in at least 81 countries
 People are still being tortured or ill-treated in 81 countries. In 54 states people face unfair trial and cannot speak freely in 77 nations


  South Africa S Africa to set up refugee camps  South Africa is to set up 7 camps around the country for foreign migrant workers who have fled a recent wave of anti-immigrant violence

  Beijing Olympic ceremony ticket tight security  Tickets for the opening and closing are embedded with a microchip containing the photograph, passport details, addresses, e-mail, phone numbers

  Japan Japan pledges to double aid to Africa  Prime Minister Fukuda pledged to double Tokyo's aid to Africa by 2012 to spur growth and attract private investment
San Francisco Bay Area , May 27, 2008 Timeline