Myanmar monks remove a roof at a temple damaged by Cyclone Nargis on the outskirt of Yangon, Myanmar, Thursday May 8, 2008. Myanmar's isolationist government blocked United Nations efforts Thursday to airlift urgently needed food aid to survivors of the cyclone that may have killed more than 100,000 people, officials said. Bild: Keystone/AP
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Myanmar residents try to fill their bucket with water in Yangon Wednesday, May 7, 2008. With as many as 1 million left homeless after Cyclone Nargis hit over the weekend, the international community was struggling to deliver aid in the military-ruled country, which normally seeks to shut out foreign officials and restricts their access inside the country. Bild: Keystone/AP
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An aerial shot taken on a flight from Bagan to Yangon, shows flooded rice fields on the outskirt of Yangon, Myanmar, on Monday, May 5, 2008. A U.N. official declared Myanmar's cyclone-stricken Irrawaddy delta a "major, major disaster" Wednesday, May 7, with corpses floating in flooded areas and enormous challenges in getting aid to the neediest victims. International aid began trickling into military-ruled Myanmar, but much of the Irrawaddy delta, where most of the 22,464 reported victims perished, has remained cut off since Cyclone Nargis hit early Saturday. Bild: KEYSTONE/AP Photo
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epa01336203 The combo of NASA satellite pictures shows the coastal region of Burma on 15 April 2008 (top) and after the cyclone Nargis on 05 May 2008 (bottom). The Burmese government estimated the number of deads at 22.000 with 41.000 more missing on 06 May 2008. Bild: Keystone/EPA/NASA/MODIS
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Airport ground crew load aid supplies onto a commercial flight bound for Myanmar at Changi Airport in Singapore 7 May 2008. This batch, which is the first of several shipments, contains mostly medical supplies for the cyclone survivors. Bild: Keystone/EPA/LAW KIAN YAN
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Residents line up to get rice after Cyclone Nargis hit the town of Phyar Pon near Bogalay, southwest of Yangon May 8, 2008. Survivors with harrowing tales of villages smashed by cyclone Nargis are paddling wooden boats to the Myanmar town of Bogalay to find whole streets destroyed and food and water scarce. Almost no aid has reached one of the hardest-hit towns in the Irrawaddy delta of around 50,000 inhabitants, where the storm tore rice mills apart and washed away fishing boats. Bild: Reuters
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Myanmar monks cut toppled trees outside a pagoda and monastery damaged by last weekend's devastating cyclone, in Kyauktan Township, southern Myanmar on Thursday May 8, 2008. Myanmar's isolationist regime Thursday gave clearance for the first major international airlift carrying aid to survivors of the cyclone that may have killed more than 100,000 people, officials said. Bild: Keystone/AP
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A man stands at the broken pier following devastating cyclone in Yangon, Wednesday, May 7, 2008. International aid began trickling into military-ruled Myanmar, but much of the Irrawaddy delta, where most of the 22,464 reported victims perished, has remained cut off since Cyclone Nargis hit early Saturday. Bild: Keystone/AP
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A Myanmar man cycles past a fallen electric poll following last weekend's devastating cyclone on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar, on Thursday May 8, 2008. Myanmar's isolationist government blocked United Nations efforts Thursday to airlift urgently needed food aid to survivors of the cyclone that may have killed more than 100,000 people, officials said. Bild: Keystone/AP
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Myanmar men work to salvage a steel roof from the mud on the banks of the Yangon River, in Yangon, Myanmar on Thursday May 8, 2008. Myanmar's isolationist regime Thursday gave clearance for the first major international airlift carrying aid to survivors of a cyclone that may have killed more than 100,000 people, officials said. Bild: Keystone/AP
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A Myanmar woman looks at the damaged statue of Buddha at the Aung Zey Yong Pagoda and monastery in Kyauktan Township, southern Myanmar on Thursday May 8, 2008. Bild: Keystone/AP Photo
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