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• MND-B Soldier attacked by IED (Baghdad)
• PRESS CONFERENCE: Operational Update: Brig. Gen. Milano, Rear Adm. Driscoll, May 11, 2008 MNF-I 11 May 2008 -- Brig. Gen. James M. Milano, Deputy Commanding General, MND - B, and Rear Adm. Patrick Driscoll, spokesman for MNF - I, discuss security, reconstruction and economic development
• May 10 airpower summary AFPN 11 May 2008
• Hellfire Missile Kills Insurgent, Destroys Vehicle in Baghdad AFPS 11 May 2008 -- A U.S. Hellfire missile killed an insurgent near the site of a roadside-bomb attack in Baghdad's Adhamiyah district today, U.S. military officials said.
• Militants Killed; Operations Disrupted in Afghanistan AFPS 11 May 2008 -- Several militants were killed and eight were detained during two separate coalition operations to disrupt militant operations in Khowst and Helmand provinces yesterday.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Marines, Sailors Prepare for Possible Operations in Burma AFPS 11 May 2008 -- Marines and sailors with the Essex Amphibious Readiness Group are preparing for possible humanitarian assistance operations to aid cyclone-stricken Burma.
• USS Ramage Conducts Towing Exercise Navy NewsStand 11 May 2008 -- The guided-missile destroyer USS Ramage (DDG 61) conducted a towing exercise with the tug C-Tractor 13 during Iwo Jima Expeditionary Strike Group Integration training (ESGINT), May 9.
• SURFLANT Tours Mine Countermeasures; Readiness is Key. Navy NewsStand 11 May 2008 -- Commander, Naval Surface Force, Atlantic, visited the Mine Countermeasure Class Squadron (MCMRON) based at Naval Station Ingleside on May 6, his first visit to the area since assuming command in February.

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Other Conflicts

• Israel Considers Truce Offer From Hamas VOA 11 May 2008 -- A Middle East ceasefire could be in the offing during a week of high diplomacy
• New Fighting Erupts in Lebanon, Arab States Call for Ceasefire VOA 11 May 2008 -- New clashes have broken out in Lebanon between Shi'ite gunmen and pro-government fighters in the mountains just east of Beirut, while Arab leaders call for a ceasefire
• Sudan Breaks Ties With Chad Over Rebel Attack on Khartoum VOA 11 May 2008 -- Sudan has severed ties with neighboring Chad following an attack Saturday by rebels from Sudan's Darfur region on the capital, Khartoum
• LEBANON: Opposition continues military takeover, enforces siege IRIN 11 May 2008 -- Lebanon's worst sectarian violence since its 15-year civil war ended in 1990 has spread from Beirut to the Druze heartlands of Mount Lebanon and on to the second city of Tripoli in the north as Hezbollah and its opposition allies continued their military takeover of the country.
• YEMEN: 100,000 people affected by rebellion in the north - ICRC IRIN 11 May 2008 -- The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Yemen said on 10 May that about 100,000 people have been directly affected by clashes between government forces and Shia rebels in Saada province, northern Yemen.

News Reports

• UN food agency steps up aid to cyclone-stricken Myanmar UN News Centre 12 May 2008 -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced that its food aid has reached more than 27,000 people in the areas of the Irrawaddy delta hit hardest by Cyclone Nargis, which left a path of death and destruction after striking Myanmar last week.
• MYANMAR: Aid reaching only a fraction of those in need - government names relief "partners" IRIN 11 May 2008 -- The Burmese government has invited three organisations - World Vision, the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) - to serve as 'partners' in the relief effort, according to a statement by World Vision.
• MYANMAR: Public health "catastrophe" looms IRIN 11 May 2008 -- An estimated 1.5 million people in Myanmar are on the brink of a "massive public health catastrophe," the British charity Oxfam warned this weekend, as reports say desperate survivors of cyclone Nargis pour out of the Irrawaddy Delta into regional towns in search of water, food and other forms of help.
• Russia's 2nd plane to deliver humanitarian aid to Myanmar May 12 RIA Novosti 11 May 2008 -- Russia's second plane from the Emergencies Ministry's fleet is expected to deliver humanitarian aid to cyclone-hit Myanmar on Monday, Russia's embassy in the southeast Asian country said on Sunday.
• ICRC To Deliver Relief Supplies To Burmese Detainees VOA 11 May 2008 -- A Red Cross plane loaded with 35 tons of equipment and materials has landed in Burma.
• Tadic Declares Victory in Serbia VOA 11 May 2008 -- Serbia's pro-European President Boris Tadic is declaring victory in the nation's crucial parliamentary election.
• Serbs Voting In Divisive Parliamentary Elections RFE/RL 11 May 2008 -- Serbs flocked to vote at a record pace in parliamentary elections today, with a pro-Western alliance led by President Boris Tadic running neck-and-neck with the nationalist Radical Party
• Serbs go to polls in crucial parliamentary elections RIA Novosti 11 May 2008 -- Serbs are voting on Sunday in a key parliamentary election expected to decide the country's future.