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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.

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