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RANGOON, Burma – A top U.N envoy traveled to Burma on Sunday to plead with the junta to accept more international aid for its cyclone survivors, amid mounting fears of starvation deaths, especially among children. John Holmes, undersecretary-general for humanitarian affairs, was received at the airport Sunday by Deputy Foreign …

WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is recommending changes in the handling of troops’ remains, after it was revealed that a crematorium contracted by the military handles both human and animal cremations. A military official said there have been no instances or charges that human and pet remains were mixed. But officials …

NEW YORK – A woman and a man holding her baby while walking on the side of a New York highway have been run over by a driver who didn’t bother to stop. The baby flew out of the man’s hands but wasn’t struck by the car and suffered only …