Myanmar’s junta impounded two U.N. food aid shipments at Yangon airport on Friday, officials said, triggering more outrage at the military government’s refusal to accept a major international relief operation.

Iranian- and Syrian-backed Shiite opposition gunmen seized control of several Beirut neighborhoods from Sunni foes loyal to the U.S.-backed government on Friday.

The once-formidable fund-raising machine of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton has begun to sputter at the worst possible moment for her presidential campaign, Clinton advisers and donors said Thursday.