Final Death Toll. “They know they can’t do it on their own.”. The districts of Ratnapura and Kegallewere the most affected, where more than 3,000 families were displaced. Thousands protest French law restricting rights to film, photograph police. The UN estimates that as many as 2.4 million people were affected. The U.S. military flew four more flights of emergency supplies into Yangon on Friday, raising its total to 17 since Monday. “We simply don’t have the information, and I can’t say when we will have it,” said Steve Marshall, a U.N. official who just came out of Myanmar. Cyclone Nargis struck 3 and a half months ago and the thousands of missing people were never found. Marshall, the U.N. official, said the military has set up checkpoints on the two main roads to the delta to keep foreigners out of the disaster zone. The official death toll from Myanmar’s killer cyclone nearly doubled to 78,000 as aid workers shackled by the country’s uncooperative military regime struggled to get even the most basic data about the needs of up to 2.5 million desperate survivors. The United Nations says the regime has issued only 40 visas to its staffers and another 46 to non-government agencies and has confined the personnel to the immediate Yangon area. Nov. 28 (UPI) -- French police fired tear gas at demonstrators rallying in Paris Saturday to oppose a bill that would make it a criminal offense to film or take photos of police with malevolent intent. In 1519, Leonardo da Vinci, Italian artist, scientist and inventor, died at age 67. I have seen the suffering of the graceful people who live in these … An additional 55,000 people were originally estimated to be missing, and to date having not been recovered (they are presumed dead). The Nigerian Red Cross put the death toll at 630. Pa. Supreme Court dismisses lawsuit attempting to invalidate absentee votes. The situation for the survivors will likely worsen as more time passes without proper help. It said the government had “carried out search and rescue and relief work and collection of data, promptly, immediately and extensively”. U.N. Undersecretary-General for humanitarian affairs John Holmes was also to go to Myanmar to try to convince junta leaders to grant more access to U.N. relief workers and to massively scale up aid efforts, said Amanda Pitt, a U.N. spokeswoman in Bangkok, Thailand. Today Burma weeps and the tears of the innocent wound us. News reports cited a death toll of 10,000 people, with thousands more missing, as of May 5. Louis Michel, the EU commissioner for development and humanitarian aid, said after a two-day visit to Myanmar that he was guardedly optimistic that Myanmar may come around. On May 2, 1611, a new translation of the Bible in England, popularly called the King James Bible after King James I, was published. The death toll was eventually raised to nearly 140,000 people. The U.N. renewed calls for the junta to let international aid workers into devastated areas. He died eight days later. 15,000? Pope Francis to appoint Wilton Gregory as first Black cardinal, Trump administration to relax rules on killing birds, Scientists find ancient whale skeleton in Thailand, NASA, SpaceX launch historic mission to space station. Myanmar state television said late Friday the official death count from the May 3 cyclone was 77,738, with another 55,917 missing. Hoover died May 2, 1972 at the age of 77. Disaster agencies cautiously welcome breakthrough on cyclone relief, Myanmar appears to nix US Navy help, saying "strings attached", UN warns of 'second wave of deaths' as Myanmar braces for new cyclone, 100-jährige Covid-19-Genese hat Virus nicht einmal gemerkt, Warum das Welternährungsprogramm mehr als eine „sichere Wahl“ ist, „Immer mehr Palästinenser denken an Flucht nach Europa“, In Thailand auf der Suche nach Little Tiger. It has opened its door just a crack to their help. On Nov. 29, 1963, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson appointed the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John Kennedy. At one point, Nargis was a Category 4 cyclone, with sustained winds of 210 kilometers per hour (130 miles per hour). “Unless more aid gets into the country – quickly – we face the risk of an outbreak of infectious diseases that could dramatically worsen today’s crisis.”. Heavy rain pelted the country Friday. An international official called the massive mud and rock collapse "absolutely devastating.".