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'Why again?' panicked Haitians cryPort-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 20, 2010 Panicked Haitians screamed and trembled with fear Wednesday as a massive aftershock rattled the capital, some blaming God, others fearing they were cursed -- and all asking when the suffering will end. The shaking lasted several seconds as Port-au-Prince was rocked at 6:03 am (1103 GMT) by a 6.1-magnitude earthquake, the largest aftershock since the initial January 12 quake, which measured 7.0. In Petionville, in the east of the capital, residents ran through the streets screaming. In front of the hotel Kinam, terrified survivors expressed relief no one had been killed. "Thank you eternal Lord, thank you eternal Lord," broken voices repeated in Creole. ... read more |
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Bulldozers carve trail of looting, lawlessness in HaitiPort-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 19, 2010 Bulldozers churn up tonnes of earth dotted with human remains from beneath a flattened supermarket in Haiti's quake-hit capital, and people fearlessly plunge in behind hoping to snatch food or something of value to sell. A week after the 7.0-magnitude earthquake flattened much of Port-au-Prince, looting has become a survival strategy. And tensions between local police and many people des ... read more |
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Moscow (AFP) Jan 19, 2010Environmentalists on Tuesday condemned Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for allowing a controversial paper plant on Siberia's pristine Lake Baikal to reopen, calling it a "crime." Putin's decree, signed on January 13 but made public on Monday, reverses an earlier ban on the production of cellulose paper and storage of waste around Lake Baikal, the world's deepest freshwater lake. ... more  
El-Tor, Egypt (AFP) Jan 20, 2010Egyptian police used tear-gas and rubber bullets on Wednesday to disperse residents of a Sinai town devastated by floods as they protested against lack of government aid, an AFP correspondent said. Two policemen were injured in the clashes, medics said, while residents of Abu Sweira on Sinai's west coast spoke of at least one person being hit by a rubber bullet. Nearly 1,000 residents of ... more  
Paris (AFP) Jan 20, 2010Madagascar's magnificent menagerie of mammals arrived tens of millions of years ago on natural rafts carried by storms and currents, and not across land bridges as some scientists contend, according to a study released Wednesday. Evolutionary biologists agree, based on evidence from molecular DNA, that the island's major fauna made their way from continental Africa in four stages. ... more |
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