Mr Milburn said the blockade was causing serious problems for NHS staff and patients.
Their movement is controlled by both Israel's blockade of Gaza and by the Hamas government.
McCain might well have the fortitude to impose a blockade, but Obama certainly will not.
The police blockade near the Boston bombing suspects' house here drew a growing crowd Friday.
Some activists aim to stage a further protest on Monday by forming a blockade outside Faslane.
But if oil starts to flow, Argentina might seek regional support for an economic blockade.
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French officials said Canada could be in charge of enforcing a naval blockade off Libyan shores.
Anti-nuclear group Trident Ploughshares said 20 members had joined a "blockade" during Monday's morning rush-hour.
Logging companies won an injunction, and the police arrested 20 protesters, ending the 19-day blockade.
Mr Erdogan has escalated his anti-Israeli rhetoric, insisting that Israel lift its blockade on Gaza.
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The airlift to Berlin continued until September 1949, when the Russian blockade was lifted.
The blockade was part of action calling on the UK government to scrap plans for Trident renewal.
Mr Gates replied evenly that a stealth torpedo attack was quite different from enforcing a coastal blockade.
Mr Kuchma immediately signed the bill into law, and the opposition lifted its blockade of government buildings.
He is a left-wing hardliner and organiser of his party's blockade of government legislation in the Bundesrat.
The union has also called for a no-fly zone over Somalia and a blockade of its ports.
It also threatened last week to blockade Moldova's rail system, if a debt is not paid promptly.
The blockade is especially frustrating for the impoverished cities that face each other across a closed frontier.
The rupture in Mayflower prompted the evacuation of 22 homes, with police enforcing a blockade around the spill.
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Opposition spokesman Lord Triesman said there was "understandable" concern about the blockade and provision of goods to Gaza.
The blockade conditioned not just Israel's attitude to negotiation with the new authorities in Gaza but also Egypt's.
British forces controlled important roads leading in and out of the city, but did not impose a blockade.
Later, the rival Naga tribal groups began a "counter blockade" on the same roads to protest against the demand.
The blockade by Kuki groups was called off on Tuesday morning after the state government agreed to the demand.
Despite the lockdown orders, a crowd gathered at the police blockade set up near the suspects' home in Cambridge.
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In other words, a blockade will be far less potent now than it would have been a year ago.
In Bangladesh's capital, Dhaka, thousands of protesters are clashing with police and threatening to impose an indefinite economic blockade.
Following the Soviets' blockade of Berlin, this began the Cold War in earnest.
The road blockade has led to a severe shortage of fuel and medicines.
In its strongly worded statement, the Tajik embassy in Moscow accused the Uzbek authorities of deliberately creating the blockade.
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