US weighing aid to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar

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WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States is providing aid to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar through its embassy in Yangon and is looking at what more it can do to help, the White House said Monday.

"We are concerned about the reports coming out of Burma and mourn the loss of life," said spokesman Scott Stanzel. Washington refers to the country as Burma.

The US embassy in Yangon has released some immediate aid that "will go through the World Food Program and other aide entities, so it doesn't necessarily go directly through the government but we are in the process of assessing what more we can do," he said.

The dollar amount was not immediately available.

Myanmar said earlier that nearly 4,000 people had been killed in the cyclone that tore into the impoverished...