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Haiti
Haitian authorities say more than 150,000 bodies have been buried in Haiti since the devastating January 12th earthquake. Haiti’s Communications Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue suggested the death toll could rise to 300,000. Lassegue said, “Nobody knows how many bodies are buried in the rubble.” As many as 800,000 Haitians are now homeless in the capital [...]
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Haiti
CITGO Petroleum Corporation, and its charitable organization, the Simón Bolívar Foundation, have started the shipment to Port-Au-Prince of 120 tons of humanitarian aid, in coordination with the Embassies of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and the Republic of Haiti in the United States. This effort complements the contributions of the Venezuelan people through their [...]
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Haiti
A large aftershock rocked Haiti Wednesday morning, one week after a devastating earthquake killed as many as 200,000 people.The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the magnitude of Wednesday’s aftershock at 6.1. Last week’s quake registered 7 on the Richter scale.When the aftershock hit, pieces of the ceiling in the Canadian Embassy’s media room fell, sending journalists [...]
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US: Three Mile Island
A radiation leak at Pennsylvania’s Three Mile Island nuclear reactor posed no danger to the public, utility officials said. An estimated 100 workers wearing protective suits were contaminated by the leak Saturday afternoon, but had been decontaminated as of late Saturday night and suffered no injury, plant spokesman Ralph DeSantis told WHTM-TV, [...]
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Iran and US
Iran’s official news agency, IRNA, reports three detained U.S. citizens have been charged with espionage. Tehran’s general prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi said Monday that investigations are continuing. The three Americans were detained on July 31 for entering Iran illegally, after they apparently strayed across the border while on a hike in northern Iraq. [...]
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Poland, US and Russia
Warsaw has denied Russian media reports that Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski asked Washington to deploy US troops to protect Poland. On Thursday, the Russian Interfax news agency quoted Sikorski as saying Poland had requesting the United States and NATO to deploy troops in Central Europe. His comments came after media reports [...]
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Iran and IAEA
U.N. inspectors found “nothing to be worried about” in a first look at a previously secret uranium enrichment site in Iran last month, the International Atomic Energy chief said in remarks published Thursday. Mohamed ElBaradei also told the New York Times that he was examining possible compromises to unblock a draft nuclear cooperation [...]
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US
President Barack Obama signed into law a historic and contentious defense spending bill [2010 National Defense Authorization Act] Wednesday that includes a broad expansion of hate-crimes legislation to include crimes committed against people because of their sexual orientation [Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act]. The new ‘hate crimes bill’ expands the [...]
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Russia and Bolivia
President Evo Morales has announced that Moscow plans to build a “maintenance center for Russian planes that fly in South America” in Bolivia. On Saturday, Morales said the center would be set up at an airport in Chimore, a coca-producing region of the Andean nation that he said previously served as a base [...]
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What’s behind renewed war jitters in Israel, Lebanon?