As Christopher ‘Dudus‘ Coke Eludes Capture, 30 Reported Dead In Spreading Violence By RICHARD ESPOSITO, MARK SCHONE and LUIS MARTINEZ May 25, 2010 As official reports surface of accused drug lord Christopher Coke’s escape from his barricaded Kingston, Jamaica neighborhood, where Jamaican authorities have been attempting to arrest him for extradition to the U.S.,...
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Chronique d’une catastrophe annoncée Une vieille pratique adoptée par la quasi-totalité de nos dirigeants politiques, à part le courageux Nissage Saget, veut que, pour des raisons diverses les unes plus fallacieuses que les autres, la pérennité du pouvoir soit assurée par tous les moyens. Qui gravit l’escalier du pouvoir doit savoir le descendre avec...
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By: The Canadian Press 24/07/2010 4:04 PM | Comments: 0 MONTREAL – A spokeswoman for Wyclef Jean isn’t saying whether the hip hop star has plans to run for the Haitian presidency. Adrienne Jacoby was responding to a report in an Ottawa-based newspaper that says the Haitian-born musician is poised to run for president....
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By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE Yana Paskova for The New York Times Charles Rangel at Friday’s news conference. In his first news conference since learning his fellow lawmakers would put up him on trial for ethics violations, Representative Charles B. Rangel urged his constituents and the press to be patient, saying he would not address the...
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Reporting from Port-au-Prince, Haiti — If it weren’t hard enough looking after 2,000 earthquake victims crammed into a sweltering schoolyard, Jean Robert Charles now has to worry about rapists. Charles is the de facto mayor of a tent settlement that fills a school and a soccer field in the gang-plagued Matisan section of the...
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BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Deep in the ravine amid the narrow corridors and chaotic construction, workers in T-shirts push wheelbarrows up and down a newly carved dirt path as rubble-filled buckets are passed in a human chain. At the top of the steep hill, a clear view of the crumbled presidential palace...
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COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS JOHN F. KERRY, Massachusetts, Chairman CHRISTOPHER J. DODD, Connecticut RUSSELL D. FEINGOLD, Wisconsin BARBARA BOXER, California ROBERT MENENDEZ, New Jersey BENJAMIN L. CARDIN, Maryland ROBERT P. CASEY, JR., Pennsylvania JIM WEBB, Virginia JEANNE SHAHEEN, New Hampshire EDWARD E. KAUFMAN, Delaware KIRSTEN E. GILLIBRAND, New York RICHARD G. LUGAR, Indiana BOB...
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