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100,000 feared dead in horrific Haiti quakePort-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 13, 2010 More than 100,000 people were feared dead in Haiti Wednesday after a calamitous earthquake razed homes, hotels, and hospitals, leaving the capital in ruins and bodies strewn in the streets. Schools collapsed, trapping the dead inside, and the cries of desperate victims escaped from flattened buildings in the center of the capital Port-au-Prince, which an AFP correspondent said was "mostly ." A massive aid operation swung into action, with rescue teams set to fly in from across the globe to try to pull victims from the debris, bringing desperately-needed medicines and food, as a humanitarian crisis unfolded. ... read more |
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London (AFP) Jan 13, 2010Fresh snowfalls hit parts of Britain on Wednesday, forcing airports to close as businesses counted the cost of the worst winter in decades. More than 1,000 schools told pupils and teachers to stay at home, as road and rail transport transport links were gripped by renewed chaos, following several days of warmer weather during which snow had melted. London Gatwick, London City, Birmingham ... more  
Beijing (AFP) Jan 13, 2010State press splashed a front-page photo of China's first publicly "married" gay couple on Wednesday -- the latest sign of new openness about homosexuality in a country where it has long been taboo. The page-one story in the English-language China Daily featured a photograph of the "newlyweds" arm-in-arm during a January 3 ceremony. Zeng Anquan, 45, and Pan Wenjie, 27, tied the knot at ... more  
Washington (AFP) Jan 13, 2010International medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) struggled Wednesday to cope with a "massive influx" of survivors of the powerful earthquake in Haiti, many with severe injuries, a spokesman said. Patients with "severe traumas, head wounds, crushed limbs" have been streaming into temporary structures set up by MSF in and around Port-au-Prince, but the medical charity is only able ... more |
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Paris (AFP) Jan 13, 2010France's fisheries minister on Wednesday opposed plans to ban fishing of the overexploited bluefin tuna but backed curbing the trade of it outside the EU, notably with the world's biggest consumer Japan. "I do indeed want us to take decisions on supervising the fisheries and banning trade (in bluefin tuna) -- but not banning the fishing of it," Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Bruno Le Mai ... more  
Hong Kong (AFP) Jan 13, 2010Hong Kong legislators on Wednesday voted down a motion calling for the release of prominent jailed Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, an official said. Pro-Beijing legislators, who effectively control the city's 60-member Legislative Council, quashed the motion put forward by pro-democracy politicians, said democratic lawmaker Albert Ho. "It was expected," he said. "The motion was bound ... more  
Washington (AFP) Jan 13, 2010US evangelical preacher Pat Robertson levied blame Wednesday for the devastating earthquake in Haiti on Haitians themselves, saying that the country "swore a pact to the devil" at its creation. "Something happened a long time ago in Haiti, and people might not want to talk about it," Robertson said on his Christian Broadcasting Network show "The 700 Club." Haitians were originally "under ... more |
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