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Apr 28, 2008 - 2:43:03 PM
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Lawmaker: Banker to be next Haiti PM
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - President Rene Preval on Sunday chose an international banking official to be the troubled country's next prime minister, a Haitian lawmaker said. Preval has designated Ericq Pierre, a senior official with the Inter-American Development Bank, to succeed ousted Prime Minister Jacques Edouard Alexis, said Stephen Benoit, a member of Preval's Lespwa party in the lower house of Parliament.
Apr 28, 2008 - 2:41:17 PM
Haiti
Food Crisis Renews Haiti's Agony
Haitians are no strangers to hunger. But even the resilience of the hemisphere's poorest citizens can be pushed too far, and with world food prices spiking this year due to shrinking harvests, burgeoning demand and skyrocketing fuel prices, it should be little surprise that Haiti is once again erupting in angry violence. As unrest spread from the countryside, protesters shut down the capital, Port-au-Prince, on Tuesday to decry lavi che — the Creole term for the high cost of living.
Apr 14, 2008 - 7:17:39 PM
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Haiti cuts cost of rice to stop food riots
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The Haitian government and the private sector of the impoverished Caribbean country announced an emergency plan on Saturday to bring down the price of rice by about 15 percent in a bid to stop food riots. President Rene Preval, under fire from critics for not doing enough about the soaring cost of living after more than a week of violent protests, said the price cut would be partly funded by the Haitian private sector and partly by money from international donors.
Apr 14, 2008 - 6:38:56 PM
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Haiti's government falls after food riots
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's government fell on Saturday when senators fired the prime minister after more than a week of riots over food prices, ignoring a plan presented by the president to slash the cost of rice.
Apr 14, 2008 - 6:30:08 PM
Haiti
Uneasy calm in Haiti after food price protests
Haitian President Rene Preval told demonstrators to "cool it" on Wednesday as he sought to end days of violent protests over soaring food prices in the impoverished Caribbean nation. His appeal, in a national address, brought an uneasy calm to Haiti a day after protesters paralyzed the capital and tried to storm the presidential palace to demand government action over the cost of food.
Apr 10, 2008 - 10:58:54 AM
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05/09/2008 09:21 PM
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Aid is on the way to devastated Myanmar but so is heavy rain
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 AP - More aid is on the way to cyclone-ravaged Myanmar — but so is the heavy rain. A week after Cyclone Nargis flattened low-lying villages and killed whole families at a time, the military junta finally agreed Friday to allow a U.S. cargo plane to bring in food and other supplies to the isolated country. Myanmar gave the green light after confiscating other shipments, prompting the U.N. to order a temporary freeze in shipments.
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05/09/2008 05:45 PM
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Hezbollah fighters sweep over much of Beirut's Muslim sector
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 AP - Unchallenged by Lebanon's army, the Iranian-backed Hezbollah routed Sunnis loyal to the U.S.-allied government and seized control of large swaths of Beirut's Muslim sector Friday in a telling demonstration of its military prowess.
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05/09/2008 10:29 PM
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Deadly cyclone overshadows Myanmar's vote on constitution
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 AP - Voting began this city near Yangon and other parts of cyclone-ravaged Mayanmar Saturday on a referendum for a controversial constitution — but the balloting was delayed for two weeks in the hardest hit areas, including the capital.
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05/09/2008 06:27 PM
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Attack from Gaza kills 1, Israeli retaliation kills 5
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 AP - Gaza attackers sent mortar shells crashing into a border community late Friday, killing an Israeli in his garden and wounding three others, officials said. Israel retaliated with missile strikes that left five Hamas militants dead.
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05/09/2008 09:34 PM
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Sri Lanka election draws complaints
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 AP - Separatist rebels destroyed a navy cargo ship Saturday just hours after a bombing blamed on the group killed 11 people in eastern Sri Lanka — violence that casted a cloud over pivotal provincial elections scheduled for later in the day.
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05/09/2008 08:26 PM
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United get Rooney lift as title thriller reaches conclusion
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 AFP - Wayne Rooney is set to hand Manchester United a massive boost by declaring himself fit to take part in this weekend's dramatic finale to an exhilarating Premier League title battle.
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05/09/2008 07:23 PM
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US military deaths in Iraq war at 4,073
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AP - As of Friday, May 9, 2008, at least 4,073 members of the U.S. military have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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