Clinton visits quake-hit Haitians
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has become the first senior Western official to arrive in Haiti after the earthquake that flattened the capital. Read more
Obama confident bank tax plan will pass Congress (AP)
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AP – President Barack Obama, accompanied by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, as he announces a new fee … Play Video Barack Obama Video:Bush and Clinton’s Haiti fund Reuters Play Video Barack Obama Video:Bush, Clinton to lead fundraising efforts for Haiti News 8 San Diego Related Quotes Symbol Price Change ^DJI 10,609.65 -100.90 ^GSPC 1,136.03 -12.43 ^IXIC 2,287.99 -28.75 [...]
Haiti aid flow grows; feuds over reaching victims (AP)
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Hungry, haggard survivors clamored — and sometimes fought — for food and water Saturday as donors squabbled over how to get aid into Haiti and rescuers waged an increasingly improbable battle to free the dying before they become the dead. Haiti’s government alone has already recovered 20,000 bodies — not counting those [...]
Detective broke secrecy law, say McCanns
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The parents of Madeleine McCann are to lodge a complaint with Portuguese police alleging that former detective Goncalo Amaral broke his country’s strict judicial secrecy laws, their lawyer said. Read more
Pictured: The machete-wielding gangs roaming streets of Haiti as fears grow death toll could hit 200,000
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Machetes gripped firmly in their hands, they walk brazenly through the streets of Port-au-Prince in broad daylight. Read more
World's Worst Earthquakes
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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]
World's Worst Earthquakes
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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]
The World Pitches in to Help Out Haiti
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The world is mobilizing to help out Haiti, an impoverished nation battered by a whopping 7.0 earthquake. Here are updates on international assistance (likely by no means all-inclusive): $100 million pledged from the U.S. by President Barack Obama, plus search and rescue teams from locations such as quake-prone Southern California are assisting in the [...]
Democratic `freak out’ in Massachusetts
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Sam Stein in the Huffington Post writes that By The Numbers, A Brown Win Could Kill Health Care Democratic leaders freaked out on Friday as they suddenly realized that nearly a year’s worth of health-care negotiations could be tripped up by an improbably close Senate race in Massachusetts…. If Republican [...]
Haiti Aid Appeal As Search For Life Goes On
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10:07am UK, Saturday January 16, 2010 James Jordan, Sky News Online At least £346m is needed to help the three million people badly affected by the Haiti earthquake, the United Nations has [...]
Jonas: ‘Kat’s a great kisser’
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WENN In the wake of her departure, Jonas has revealed that Kat is one of the best kissers of his life. The dance artist was talking about his love interest to Sov and Sisqo in the garden, hours after she became the first housemate of the series to be evicted from the show. As the [...]
Terrorist leader killed in Pakistan
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A U.S. missile strike in Pakistan killed one of the FBI’s most-wanted terrorists, a man suspected in a deadly 1986 plane hijacking with a $5 million bounty on his head, three Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday. Read more
Gates: Military remains unprepared to stop internal security threats at bases
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Two months after the deadly rampage at Fort Hood, the military remains unprepared to stop internal security threats at its U.S. installations, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said today. Read more
Staying at the Basra ‘B&B’
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]
Chaos at Port-au-Prince airport slows Haiti emergency aid efforts
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Despite urgent needs following Tuesday’s earthquake, emergency aid for Haiti is being slowed by chaos at the Port-au-Prince airport, where planes are clogging all available space, unloading equipment is scarce and fuel for departing aircraft is unavailable, officials said Friday. Read more
Alleged hijacker reportedly killed in Pakistan missile strike
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN, PAKISTAN — A U.S. missile strike in Pakistan recently killed one of the FBI’s most wanted terrorists, a man suspected in a deadly 1986 plane hijacking with a $5 million bounty on his head, three Pakistani intelligence officials said Friday. Read more
Rescue teams pull at least 10 from hotel
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For three days, a 60-year-old U.S. citizen was trapped beneath the collapsed floors of the Hotel Montana in Petionville, his legs pinned by fallen concrete. He was conscious and often spoke. He shared a space the size of a small closet — or a large coffin — with a dead man. Read more
Venezuela’s Chávez Takes a Mighty Swing at Golf
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CARACAS, Venezuela — Every day, Pascual Cicenia plays golf on an emerald course that is 18 holes of tropical heaven in the middle of this chaotic city. He doesn’t take it for granted, he said, especially now that President Hugo Chávez has disparaged the sport as an elitist endeavor with few friends in his populist [...]
150 U.N. staff members remain trapped under rubble in Haiti
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UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations appears to have suffered its greatest loss of life in a single incident as about 150 of its employees in Haiti, including the mission’s leader, remained trapped Wednesday under the rubble of their headquarters and other U.N. facilities after Tuesday’s massive earthquake. Read more
World Digest: North Korea to allow more U.S. tourists in 2010
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NORTH KOREA More U.S. tourists to be allowed in 2010 North Korea will allow more U.S. tourists to visit this year, apparently seeking alternative sources of hard currency as economic sanctions bite deeper. The Pyongyang government permits American groups to visit only for the Arirang mass games, when tens of thousands of impeccably choreographed gymnasts [...]