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  • Venezuela Wreckage of plane that disappeared in 2008 located off Caribbean archipelago

    CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuelan authorities say the undersea wreckage of a small plane that disappeared five years ago with 14 people aboard has been found. Attorney General Luisa Ortega Diaz is announcing via Twitter the discovery of the aircraft with the ID code YV2081. The plane went missing Jan. 4, 2008. Aboard were five Venezuelans including the pilot and copilot, eight Italians and one ...

  • Video Canadian peacekeepers heading to Haiti

    Defence Minister Peter MacKay says 34 soldiers are going to Haiti as part of a UN peacekeeping operation. The troops are scheduled to arrive this week to begin a six-month tour under Brazilian ...

  • World Bank grants Haiti $20 million to clean up public records government transparency

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The World Bank has given $20 million to Haiti for cleaning up its public resources and making them more transparent. The grant will help Haiti improve public financial management, procurement practices and performance of the national electrical company. It will also create a tracking system to monitor budgets and a single treasury account to manage funds. The grant is ...

  • Miyamoto Haiti Expands to Build 34 Schools With FAES and UNICEF

    United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). The school sites are mainly in remote areas of Haiti, outside of the capital. These projects will be built to international standards for safety and quality. "There should be no difference in the safety standards for American children and for Haitian children. We need to ensure that all children are completely safe in their schools," said ...

  • Haiti ban fallout reaches more sectors

    They haven't cared for like 200 years and countingSymbolically, when the earthquake of 2010 took out the National Palace wild cheers went up on the part of the underclasses in the still smoldering ashes of that terrible natural disaster. A very telling symbol or statement of the lack of State and Nation balancing.The "saving face" might be part of the problem, but in essence ...


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Ice Age: The Meltdown [DVD]

Ice Age: The Meltdown [DVD]

Given the concomitant image on the cover of Time magazine of a polar bear standing sadly on a broken, floating chunk of a glacier, the rest of which has fallen watery victim to rising global temperatures, the computer-animated comedy Ice Age: The Meltdown was oddly we ... ...

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  • Haiti ban spurs slaughter of 1.0M hens cut in egg production

    Santo Domingo.- Agriculture Minister Luis Ramon Rodriguez Wednesday announced an agreement with egg producers to cut production and adapt to local demand, for which the Haitian market will no longer be a priority. Rodriguez said one million laying hens no longer at peak output will be slaughtered, to balance supply to the demand much faster. Among the other measures announced by the official ...

  • Violent crime in Haiti kills over 1000

    PORT-AU-PRINCE, June 19 AFP - Violent crime in Haiti has claimed the lives of more than a thousand people over the past year, including foreigners and United Nations peacekeepers, a human rights group ...

  • Dominican officials look to dump poultry glut as Haiti ban holds

    Santo Domingo. - Dominican Republic is running around "like a chicken with its head cut off" in the heels of Haiti's ban on local poultry products that took effect for more than one week, as various sectors suggest ways to deal with the expected glut. Agriculture minister Luis Ramon Rodriguez, who met today with north region chicken and egg farmers, said the government could buy ...

  • Canada deploying 34 peacekeepers to serve with Brazilians in Haiti

    Canada is sending 34 troops to Haiti to serve as a peacekeepers with a Brazilian battalion, Defence Minister Peter MacKay announced Wednesday. MacKay announced the deployment in Ottawa alongside Calgary MP Diane Ablonczy and Gen. Tom Lawson, Canada's Chief of the Defence Staff. They will deploy from June 21 until December 2013, MacKay said. "Members of the Canadian Armed ...

  • Canada joining Brazilian-led peacekeeping mission in Haiti

    A Canadian soldier carries supplies as troops arrive at a temporary medical centre in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in January 2010. A handful of Canadian troops are about to take part in peacekeeping operation in Haiti under the command of Brazilian forces. (Adrian Wyld/Canadian ...

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