Tue Nov 10, 7:19 PM ET

Relief supply from the US Agency for International Development (USAID) is seen in a C-130 plane at the Yangon International airport in 2008. US President Barack Obama on Tuesday nominated a former official at the humanitarian Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to head USAID, the agency tasked with spurring development around the world. (AFP/US Marine Corps/File/Sergent Andres Alcaraz)

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