Up before sunset in post-disaster Haiti, showering in the outdoor latrine in the pitch dark, I trust there are no spiders, lizards, or snakes to bite me in my pre-dawn daze. I am leading an international relief team here in Leogane, the quake’s epicenter.
Relief work, I think sleepily, looks more glamorous on TV than in [...]
TOKYO – Minor tsunami tidal waves were observed in the southern Japanese island of Okinawa after a powerful earthquake struck the south of the country early Saturday, officials said.
The 7.0 magnitude quake was measured at a depth of 22 kilometres and was centred 81 kilometres east-southeast of Naha in Okinawa, the USGS said.
Japan’s Meteorological Agency [...]
Clinton told reporters at the State Department that the Americans should not have taken matters into their own hands by bringing children from earthquake-ravaged Haiti to the Dominican Republic and should have followed proper adoption procedures. She said U.S. officials were in discussions with Haitian authorities about how to resolve the case.
“The Haitian nation acted [...]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti The journalists had assembled and the cameras were rolling. Seated at center stage were the American ambassador and the American general in charge of the United States troops deployed here.
At the back of the room, wearing blue jeans and a somber expression, stood President René Préval, half-listening to the updates [...]
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Ten U.S. Baptists arrested trying to take 33 children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti say they were just trying to do the right thing, applying Christian principles to save Haitian children.
Prime Minister Max Bellerive told The Associated Press Sunday he was outraged by the group’s “illegal trafficking of children” in a country long [...]
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Chapter 1: the Riches of the Poor
For our purposes, let’s say that the center of the moral universe is in Room S-3800 of the UN Secretariat, Manhattan. From here, you are some five hours from being able to negotiate the sale, in broad daylight, of a healthy boy or girl. [...]
By Alastair Jamieson Published: 3:30PM GMT 23 Jan 2010
Sixty-two experts were scrambled to help with the biggest natural disaster since the 2004 Indonesian tsunami, pulled four alive from the rubble, including a two-year-old toddler called Mia who spent three days trapped in debris.
Mission organisers said it was the most difficult operation they had [...]
Following are the remarks made to reporters Wednesday morning by Ban Ki-moon, secretary general of the United Nations, on the earthquake in Haiti, as transcribed by the United Nations press office. The bracketed editorial insertions were supplied with the transcript.
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. first of all, I would like to extend my heartfelt [...]
La question on peut effectivement se la poser. Y-a-t-il une coordination de la politique européenne extérieure d’aide humanitaire sur Haïti ? Que fait l’Europe aujourd’hui ? La crise d’Haïti était une crise test pour le nouveau dispositif issu du Traité de Lisbonne. Qu’a fait l’Europe ? Pas moins qu’hier ? Mais pas plus et [...]
It’s no secret that the Rev. Pat Robertson is a yammering fool, but last week he hit a new low.
During a chatty sit-down segment of his television program, the “700 Club,” the prominent Christian preacher offered his viewers a unique explanation of the terrible earthquake in Haiti:
“Something happened a long time ago in [...]
