Obama overtakes lead in superdelegates for first time (AP)

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks at a town hall-style meeting in Bend, Ore., Saturday, May 10, 2008. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong)AP - Barack Obama erased Hillary Rodham Clinton's once-imposing lead among superdelegates Saturday when he added more endorsements from the group of Democrats who will decide the party's nomination for president.


Myanmar's junta holds referendum despite cyclone crisis (AP)

In this photo captured from video and released by the state run television station MRTV-3, an unidentified military official passes out food aid at a relief camp, Saturday, May 10, 2008, in Myanmar. Myanmar's military regime distributed international aid Saturday but plastered the boxes with the names of top generals in an apparent effort to turn the relief effort for last week's devastating cyclone into a propaganda exercise. (AP Photo/MRTV-3)AP - Myanmar's military rulers held a referendum Saturday aimed at solidifying their hold on power while brazenly turning cyclone relief efforts into a propaganda campaign. In some cases, generals' names were scribbled onto boxes of foreign aid before being distributed.


Hezbollah fighters in Beirut melt away (AP)

A woman walks past a shop set alight in the violence that broke following a shooting at a funeral in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, May 10, 2008. A Shiite Muslim shop owner opened fire on a funeral procession Saturday, killing two people and wounding six others in a Sunni neighborhood, police and witnesses said. The attack came a day after Shiite Hezbollah gunmen seized most of the capital's Muslim sector in the worst sectarian strife since a 15-year civil war ended nearly two decades ago. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)AP - Hezbollah gunmen were melting away from the streets of Beirut late Saturday, heeding an army call to clear out fighters after the Shiite militants demonstrated their military might in a power struggle with the U.S.-backed government.


Obama rises from political obscurity to verge of history (AP)

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., smiles during a rally in the Memorial Quad on the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, Ore., Friday, May 9, 2008. (AP Photo/Ryan Gardner)AP - The amazement was on their faces. Hundreds waited for Barack Obama on that evening in South Carolina, 15 weeks ago, to claim victory — a surprising victory, surprisingly large.


 
 
Myanmar's junta holds referendum despite cyclone crisis
Myanmar's military rulers held a referendum Saturday aimed at solidifying their hold on power while brazenly turning cyclone relief efforts into a propaganda campaign. In some cases, generals' names were scribbled onto boxes of foreign aid before being distributed.
Official: Son of Mexico drug lord killed
Gunmen killed the son of one of Mexico's reputedly most-powerful drug lords in the northern city of Culiacan, a government official said Saturday.
Stifled by regime, Myanmar cyclone victims suffer in silence
Apart from the sound of children crying, the town of Labutta is strangely silent.
Serbia haunted by Milosevic's ghost
Serbia is haunted anew by the ghost of Slobodan Milosevic.
As freedoms wane in ex-Soviet bloc, Ukraine fills the gap
A gloomy Vladimir Putin wears a Czarist crown, clutching a bag full of dollars and a miniature television tower.

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