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Kamla Persad-Bissessar

New UNC leader ready to work with opponents

(Trinidad Express) She did it! Excoriated as a weakling incapable of leading and hiding a drinking weakness, Kamla Persad-Bissessar proved last night she had the political strength to beat two political legends.

Haiti estimates 140,000 dead, violence breaks out

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian authorities said  today they believe 140,000 people were killed in the  earthquake that devastated the Caribbean nation and said gangs  of robbers were preying on survivors desperately awaiting aid.

Mass burials after Haiti quake

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Troops and planeloads of  food and medicine streamed into Haiti yesterday to aid a  traumatized nation still rattled by aftershocks from the  catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government  buildings and buried countless people.

Breaking News: Man killed outside Red Dragon

Vibert Weeks, 28, of North East La Penitence, Georgetown was pronounced dead on arrival at a private hospital this morning after being riddled with bullets by a gunman outside of the Red Dragon on Robb Street.

Obama ties failed plane attack to al Qaeda

HONOLULU,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday it appeared the man suspected of trying to bomb a Detroit-bound plane on Christmas was a member of al Qaeda and had been trained and equipped by the Islamic militant network.

Pakistan volleyball blast kills 88 – police

ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself  up in an SUV at a volleyball game in northwest Pakistan today, killing 88 people in a village that opposes al  Qaeda-linked Taliban insurgents, police said.

Riot on Christmas rocks Suriname border town

PARAMARIBO (Reuters) – Police and troops on Christmas Day put down a riot and looting rampage in Albina, a Surinamese town bordering French Guiana, in violence which wounded 13 people, a government minister said.

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