PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – U.S. troops pulled a man alive from the rubble of a collapsed building in Haiti’s destroyed capital today, two weeks after a massive earthquake rattled the country.
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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.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – International rescuers today pulled a 24-year-old Haitian man alive from the rubble of a collapsed hotel in the capital Port-au-Prince, 11 days after the earthquake that devastated the city.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A new earthquake shook the devastated Haitian capital this morning, creating panic among survivors of last week’s devastating quake camped out in the streets but apparently causing no new destruction.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s main hospital is open again, but there are no doctors and few medical supplies and wailing injured earthquake victims litter the grounds, waiting for treatment on makeshift beds.
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.
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.
Many scientists say, that the claim that co2 gases is the cause of climate change, is the biggest scam perpetrated on mankind within the last 100 years.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Eleven Brazilian soldiers from a U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti were killed in the Caribbean country’s huge earthquake, Brazil’s army said in a statement today.
Two houses have been ravaged and three others scorched after a disgruntled woman reportedly set fire to a local actor’s home some time before 10 last night.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A major earthquake hit impoverished Haiti today, toppling buildings in the capital Port-au-Prince, burying residents in rubble and causing many deaths and injuries, witnesses in the city said.
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.
A waitress was shot dead last night as gunmen went on a five-minute rampage at Safraz’s Bar and Restaurant on David and Lamaha streets, injuring three other persons.
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.
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.
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.
DETROIT, (Reuters) – A Nigerian man believed to be linked to al Qaeda militants was in custody today after he tried to ignite an explosive device on a U.S.