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...mail sent on Thursday to its partners and affiliates, HHI warned that the Fond Parisien Disaster Recovery Center, a field hospital on Haiti’s side of the border with the Dominican Republic, is at risk of closing...
...area around the town of Redencao is a particularly bloody battlefield. It is the home to powerful cattle barons who are in constant conflict with reform activists. In 2005, an American nun, Dorothy Stang, who supported land reform, was murdered. Last Thursday, as a local court postponed the third trial of a man accused of killing her, unknown gunmen shot dead Pedro Alcantara de Souza, another activist for land reform in Redencao. Police believe Souza was targeted because he works for the Federation of Family Farmers, a group that defends the rights of small producers and landowners in southern Para...
...movie star, who survived quadruple bypass surgery in 1979 and colorectal cancer in 2006, finally died Thursday, in Santa Ynez, Calif., of pneumonia...
...During Thursday's phone call, Hu raised China's concerns about Taiwan and Tibet, Xinhua reported. "Taiwan and Dalai are two issues that China will always mention in occasions like this, but I don't think China will expect any constructive replies from the U.S.," says Jin. "I think China will mention those two issues just to declare their position." (See pictures of Obama visiting Asia...
...Washington, Obama will also be looking for China's help to curtail Iran's nuclear program. So far, Beijing has been reluctant to support tough sanctions and has repeatedly urged more patience to allow for diplomatic overtures. Saeed Jalili, Iran's top nuclear negotiator, spent Thursday in Beijing meeting with Chinese officials including Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi and State Councillor Dai Bingguo. A Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman said Thursday that China "is striving for a proper settlement of the issue through diplomatic means," Xinhua reported. The message is that Hu Jintao may be willing to go to Washington, but China...