• West Beirut Controlled by Hizbullah
• More Trouble in Burma
• Humanitarian Crisis in Zimbabwe
• Bush Threatens Farm Bill Veto
• More Scrutiny for Federal Contractors?

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• Bolivian President Agrees to Confidence
  Vote
• Taliban and Northwest Pakistan
  Authority Negotiate Cease-Fire
• Obama Gains Valuable Super Delegates
• ARAMARK Employees in Houston Strike
• Immigrants Win in Restaurant Sexual
  Harassment Claim

Bolivian President Agrees to Confidence
Vote

Bolivia will hold a national vote of
confidence for President Evo Morales. Nine regional governors are
also in danger of losing their office.Diletta Varlese reports from La
Paz.

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Lebanon's capital, Beirut, has been wracked by pitched gun-battles between pro-government and anti-government forces over the last three days. 11 people are confirmed dead and more than 20 people have been wounded. The fighting began on Wednesday when the Hizbullah-led opposition reacted to the US-backed government's move to ban their military telecommunications network. Fierce battles continued today, but at airtime anti-government forces controlled all of west Beirut. The country has been without a president for 7 months, in what is the worst internal crisis since the end of the 1975-1990 civil war. FSRN's Jackson Allers reports from Beirut.

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Burma has announced that the aid workers, experts and information teams will not be allowed to enter the country. Reports has circulated that The United Nations suspended relief supplies to Burma on Friday, but a World Food Program spokesperson clarified in a statement that aid is still being delivered to the area. At the same time, many international aid workers and experts are stranded in Bangkok, including US transport aircrafts and helicopters nearly one week after the disastrous cyclone Nargis. FSRN's Ronald Aung Naing has more.

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The House and Senate have come to an agreement on the new Farm Bill after a year of negotiations – but the President says he'll veto it, calling the bill "massive and bloated." FSRN's Tanya Snyder reports on what this bill does – what it doesn't do – and whether it can survive a veto.

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Federal contractors across the US could soon be under tougher scrutiny. A bill to help the federal government keep track of fraudulent contractors is quickly moving through Congress. FSRN Correspondent Matt Laslo reports from Washington.

• Unlikely Coalition May Block Iraq War Supplemental
• Israel's First Kibbutz to be Privatized
• Serbia's War Crimes Prosecutions
• Kenya's Food Crisis May Mean Starvation
• Wind Energy Producer Tax Initiatives

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