CHAPPAQUA, NEW YORK – Former President Bill Clinton was recovering at his suburban home Friday after leaving a Manhattan hospital where he underwent a heart procedure. Three black SUVs with tinted windows arrived around 7:45 a.m. Friday and pulled through the high gates at the house. The hamlet of Chappaqua is about 35 miles...
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By CHRISTINE ARMARIO Associated Press Writer MIRAMAR, Fla. (AP) — Some of the children arrived with no school records at all, some with only the clothes on their backs. A few still bear scrapes and bruises. All carry terrible memories. Nearly 1,000 youngsters who survived Haiti’s catastrophic earthquake have enrolled in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale...
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www.WirelessFederation.com/news: Emphasizing its commitment towards the disaster hit Haiti, Vietnam’s largest cellular network operator by subscribers, Viettel has announced to continue the planned investment amidst catastrophic damage due to earthquake. Viettel will invest USD60 million to supplement Teleco’s USD40 million investment in the project. According to deputy general director of Viettel, Nguyen Manh Quan,...
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by Kevin Pina US marines watches as demonstrators march towards UN headquarters near the airport Demonstrators clash with Haitian police Sign reads: “The rain has soaked us. The MINUSTAH (UN) must go. We need help. We need aid.” Port au Prince, Haiti – HIP — About one inch of rain fell on the capital...
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In the first major incident at sea since Haiti’s devastating earthquake, nearly 80 Haitian nationals aboard an overloaded freighter in the Atlantic were stopped and returned to Haiti, the Coast Guard reported Thursday. But U.S. authorities said they see no evidence that Haitians are attempting to illegally leave the country in the aftermath of...
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A commission to oversee Haiti’s recovery from the Jan. 12 earthquake could be led by former President Bill Clinton. BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com The Obama administration is quietly advocating a plan to reconstruct Haiti that could involve a central role for former President Bill Clinton. The plan, designed by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Haiti’s government has raised the death toll for the Jan. 12 earthquake to 230,000 from 212,000 and says more bodies remain uncounted. The government initially estimated 150,000 dead on Jan. 24, apparently from bodies being recovered in the rubble of collapsed buildings in Port-au-Prince, the capital that was near the...
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Envoyé le : Mar 9 Février 2010, 9 h 52 min 24 s Objet : Security Update 30 This email is CLASSIFIED. Reported Incidents 02-05-10 Gang activity reported during the nighttime hours, in the Pepiniere area of Delmas 105 (Rte de Frere). Armed gang members were observed openly carrying weapons and intimidating the local population....
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Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN) — A man pulled alive from the rubble of a building in Haiti’s capital Monday may have been trapped since the January 12 quake that leveled much of the city, doctors reported. The 28-year-old man, identified as Evan Muncie, was found in the wreckage of a market where he sold rice,...
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By Alan Gomez, USA TODAY PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Several Haitians said Sunday that they were not surprised to learn that accusations of bribery had arisen in the case of 10 American missionaries charged with kidnapping Haitian children. Patricia Louis, a third-year law school student in Port-au-Prince, said corruption is so commonplace in Haitian courts...
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