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Five days after a magnitude 7.0 temblor struck the impoverished island nation of Haiti, the death toll is still unknown, corpses still litter the streets, the effort to offer immediate aid is hampered by disjointed coordination between various countries’ and NGOs’ efforts, city dwellers are moving to rural areas not affected by the quake (and [...]
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A new episode in my podcast experiment explores the question of how God can allow natural disasters to take place. Read more
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6:33pm UK, Monday January 18, 2010 David Williams, Sky News Online Gun battles have raged on the streets of Kabul after the Taliban launched a wave of deadly suicide bombings in the [...]
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Graham Stone Delphic have declared that they are desperate to play at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. Having broken into the top ten of the UK album charts with debut LP Acolyte on Sunday, the Manchester band revealed that they have a very clear goal in the coming year. Singer James Cook told Gigwise: “I grew [...]
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The man who tried to kill Pope John Paul II nearly 30 years ago was released from a Turkish prison on Monday, rekindling the mystery over whether he acted alone or had been hired by a Soviet-era secret service. Read more
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AP photo The stakes are enormous: President Obama campaigns with Martha Coakley in Boston. It’s almost impossible to overstate the political significance of tomorrow’s Massachusetts Senate election. Here… Read more
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I can’t stop thinking about this little chunk of ivory. I am presently in the north of Iraq, en route to the ancient sites of Hadra and Nimrud, and spent today admiring the breathtaking treasures of the Assyrian empire, whose iconography ran to vast winged bulls carved in stone and covered in cuneiform descriptions of [...]
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The night before getting the call to go to Haiti I’d been to the pictures to see The Road, based on the Pulitzer-winning novel by Cormac McCarthy. In the two days it took me to get here I thought the film might have been some kind of mental preparation. I couldn’t have been more wrong. [...]
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AFGHANISTAN Parliament adjourns without a full cabinet Afghanistan’s parliament adjourned Sunday for its winter recess without waiting for President Hamid Karzai to nominate new cabinet members to replace those rejected in two rounds of confirmation votes. Karzai said he would appoint caretakers to run the ministries without confirmed leaders to avoid government paralysis as NATO [...]
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KABUL — Taliban fighters and apparent suicide bombers fought Afghan security forces in a fierce gun battle in central Kabul on Monday. Read more
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When a Haitian woman from Takoma Park received a call from a friend telling her that Haitians who have been living in the United States illegally will be allowed to stay for the next 18 months, the woman dropped the phone. Read more
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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 [...]
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MEXICO CITY — When the Mexican military opened its Museum of Drugs in 1985, there were only a couple of dusty display cases in a small cramped room. Read more
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She had fallen in love with Haiti during the heady days when she was fresh out of Smith College and Jean-Bertrand Aristide was the fledgling president of a poor country seemingly filled with promise. By Tuesday afternoon, as she sat in a meeting in a basement room of the U.N. headquarters there, Lisa Mbele-Mbong had [...]
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Sebastian Piñera, a conservative billionaire businessman, won the presidency of Chile on Sunday, ending a generation of rule by a center-left coalition that had overseen the transformation of the country of 17 million into Latin America’s most politically stable and economically dynamic. Read more
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CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez on Sunday accused the United States of using the earthquake in Haiti as a pretext to occupy the devastated Caribbean country and offered to send fuel from his OPEC nation. Read more
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – U.S. troops will help U.N. peacekeepers keep order on Haiti’s increasingly lawless streets, the country’s president said on Sunday as aid workers struggled to get food and medical assistance to desperate earthquake survivors. Read more
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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has appealed to frustrated Haitians to be patient over efforts to bring them relief from last Tuesday’s earthquake. Read more
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LONDON (AFP) – Britain has ruled out copying the United States by proposing a special tax on banks to recover state funds used to bailout lenders during the financial crisis, the British finance minister insisted on Saturday. Read more
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Play Video AFP  – Desperation in Haiti amid pleas for more aid Slideshow:Massive earthquake hits Haiti Play Video Video:As rescuers search for missing, cyberspace enlisted AP Play Video Video:Raw Video: Hotel owner saved from the rubble AP AP – Jean Gerber, 11, center, grimaces as medic Buddy Davis removes a bandage to check on the boy’s wound … By [...]