{"id":3561,"date":"2008-05-23T08:49:43","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T07:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/burma-to-allow-in-all-aid-workers\/3561\/"},"modified":"2008-05-23T08:49:43","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T07:49:43","slug":"burma-to-allow-in-all-aid-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/burma-to-allow-in-all-aid-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Burma &#8216;to allow in all aid workers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AP | Burma&#8217;s ruling junta has agreed to allow &#8220;all aid workers&#8221; into the country to help cyclone survivors, the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said today.<\/p>\n<p><!--proximic_content_off--><!--proximic_content_on-->Mr Ban&#8217;s comments came after a crucial two-hour meeting today with the junta leader, Senior General Than Shwe.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if he thought the agreement was a breakthrough, Mr Ban said: &#8220;I think so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Burma&#8217;s junta has until now refused to allow an unimpeded influx of foreign aid and experts to reach survivors of Cyclone Nargis, which hit the country on May 2-3.<\/p>\n<p>At least 78,000 people were killed and another 56,000 are unaccounted for.<\/p>\n<p><!--proximic_content_off--><!-- Proximic Link --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP | Burma&#8217;s ruling junta has agreed to allow &#8220;all aid workers&#8221; into the country to help cyclone survivors, the UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said today. Mr Ban&#8217;s comments came after a crucial two-hour meeting today with the junta leader, Senior General Than Shwe. When asked if he thought the agreement was a breakthrough, Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[64],"class_list":{"0":"post-3561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-latest-news","7":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}