In a dramatic policy reversal, the military government in Myanmar has finally agreed to allow all foreign aid workers to enter the country and assist with the response to the humanitarian crisis caused by Cyclone Nargis, U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said this morning.
HUNTINGTON -- When a March article in U.S. News & World Report told of a $38 million bill signed to preserve Japanese-American internment camps from World War II, Huntington resident T.W. Olson did something he'd never done before. He wrote back.
UNITED NATIONS - Buffeted by food riots at home, Senegal’s president, Abdoulaye Wade, earlier this month lashed out at a distant culprit: The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization, which he slammed as a wasteful “bottomless pit of money” that should be abolished for failing to help increase global food production.
Former prisoner of war James Hammond expects to meet with his fellow soldiers one last time in 2009 when the American Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor hold their 64th and final reunion.
Sadaichi Abe May 16, 2008 Sadaichi "Charlie" Abe, 85, of Honolulu, a retired Sears Roebuck and Co. service center employee and U.S. Army veteran of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team F Company who served during World War II, died in Straub Clinic & Hospital.
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John Harold Skillman, who served as a missionary and educator in Japan for two decades, died at the age of 80 due to complications from Alzheimer's disease in Silver Spring, Md., on May 20, his family said. Skillman learned Japanese in the U.S. Army during World War II and in 1951 was sent to Tokyo as a United Methodist missionary serving Harajuku Church. Read the full story
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