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Breaking News Sat, 6 Sep 2008
Flood Victims Receive Food and Water Supplies in Gonaives, Haiti
Aid   Caribbean   Disaster   Haiti   Photos  
 The Press Democrat 
Peacekeepers, aid workers race to feed Haitians
| Officials feared fatalities in Haiti from Hanna could rise above the 163 confirmed dead, but said reports of higher death tolls were based on unconfirmed estimates. | Flooded roads, broken piers and... (photo: UN / Marco Dormino )
Continental airlines
Airlines   Canada   Economy   Photos   USA  
 Canada Dot Com 
Continental charges $15 a bag
| NEW YORK -- Continental Airlines Inc. said Friday it will charge a $15 US service fee for a first checked bag for certain customers who buy economy-class tickets. The fee applies immediately to tick... (photo: GFDL / Ozark)
View of Gonaives after the passing of tropical storm Hanna - An aerial view of the houses in a village drowning in the water floods caused by the tropical storm "Hanna".  The Boston Globe 
Death toll in flooded Haitian town soars
| PORT-AU-PRINCE - More than 500 people died when up to 5 yards of muddy water swept through the Haitian town of Gonaives this week, triggered by torrential rains from Tropical Storm Hanna, police sai... (photo: UN / Marco Dormino)
Caribbean   Disaster   Environment   Haiti   Photos  
First aid ship arrives in flooded Haitian city (10:32 a.m.)  Sun Star 
First aid ship arrives in flooded Haitian city (10:32 a.m.)
GONAIVES, Haiti - U.N. peacekeeping troops began handing out food and water to famished Haitians on Friday after the first shipload of aid sailed into a crumbling port on the outskirts of this flooded... (photo: FEMA / Barry Bahler)
Aid   Haiti   Hurricane   Natural Disasters   Photos  
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Daniel Ortega Inquirer
Nicaragua awakens Cold War ghosts over Georgia conflict
| MANAGUA -- Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega has formally recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia, supporting Russia's stance on the breakaway Georgian regions and revi... (photo: AP Photo/Yuri Cortez, pool)
Georgia   Nicaragua   Photos   Politics   Russia  
* A flood victim carries a box of high energy biscuits he received from the World Food Program in a shelter as he wades through muddy water after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area in Gonaives, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Hanna has killed at least 137 people in Hai BBC News
'Hundreds' killed by Haiti storm
| Almost 500 bodies have been found in the port city of Gonaives after floodwaters caused by recent storms receded, according to reports. | Commissioner Ernst Dorfeuille ... (photo: AP / Ariana Cubillos)
Aid   Disaster   Haiti   Photos   Storm  
Member of the Brazilian battalion of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) assists an elderly woman carry her bag of rice from the distribution centre. The Guardian
UN sees storms add to hard-hit Haiti's food crisis
| AP Photo XAC106By JOHN HEILPRIN | Associated Press Writer | UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Flooding in Haiti from three major storms has killed scores of people and ``washed awa... (photo: UN / Logan Abassi )
Floods   Food   Haiti   Photos   UN  
People wade through flooded streets after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area in Gonaives, Haiti, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. Three storms have killed at least 126 people in Haiti in less than three weeks and even as Tropical Storm Hanna edged away, forecasters warned that a fourth storm Hurricane Ike could hit the Western hemisphere's poorest country as a major storm ne The Guardian
Thousands stranded as floods cut off aid in Haiti
| Devastation wreaked by tropical storms overwhelmed rescue efforts in Haiti yesterday and left thousands of people stranded with no food or drinking water as another hur... (photo: AP / Ariana Cubillos)
Aid   Floods   Haiti   Hurricane   Photos  
Children carry material in order to repair the roofs of some houses damaged by Hurricane Gustav in Batabano, in the outskirts of Havana, Monday, Sept. 1, 2008. No deaths and only 19 injuries were reported after Hurricane Gustav hit the western part of Cuba last Satu The Times of India
US government trying to aid Cuba hurricane victims
| 6 Sep 2008, 0234 hrs IST,AFP             WASHINGTON: The US government said on Friday that it was trying to aid victims of Caribbean storm... (photo: AP / Javier Galeano)
Aid   Cuba   Hurricane   Photos   US  
This image provided by NOAA was taken at 6:45 a.m. EDT Friday Sept. 5, 2008. Tropical Storm Hanna can be seen chugging just east of the Bahamas headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it is expected to bring high winds and rain from South Carolina to Maine. Further east in the Atlantic is Hurricane Ike with maximum sustained winds of 125 mph and the storm system to the right in the image Tropical Storm Josephine with 50 mph winds can be s The Australian
Deadly storms circle Caribbean, US coast
| TROPICAL Storm Hanna is closing in on the US east coast after leaving 136 dead in Haiti, as powerful Hurricane Ike threatens Caribbean islands and the US. Hanna churned... (photo: AP / NOAA)
Caribbean   Hurricane   Photos   US   Weather  
Ginebra Kings vs. Alaska Aces basketball game Inquirer
Where have all the basketball tickets gone?
| MANILA, Philippines—Plain fans can't be blamed for suspecting that it's no longer a plain basketball match the UAAP will be hosting at the Araneta Coliseum Saturday. | ... (photo: WN)
Basketball   Game   Philippines   Photos   Sport  
Fierce Hurricane Ike targets Miami, Hanna nears The Star
Fierce Hurricane Ike targets Miami, Hanna nears
| SALVO, N.C. (Reuters) - Fierce Hurricane Ike weakened slightly as it charged across the Atlantic on Friday and took aim at south Florida while Tropical Storm Hanna was ... (photo: UN / Logan Abassi)
Florida   Hurricane   Miami   Photos   Tropical  
People line up in mud for water and food at a shelter for flood victims after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area in Gonaives, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. CNN
Haiti gets much-needed hurricane relief supplies
From Taylor Gandossy | CNN | (CNN) -- A ship carrying U.N. relief supplies, including food and water, arrived Friday in the hurricane-ravaged Haitian city of Gonaives, an... (photo: AP / Ariana Cubillos)
Aid   Floods   Haiti   Hurricane   Photos  
Business & Economy Sport
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- Mexico looks to S. Korea, Japan for gas
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- Movers roundup: Aruba Networks, Aflac
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- Escaping Africa's oil curse?
- Stock exchange ahead for Central America
- Oil prices rise again on concerns Gustav will hit Gulf of Me
- Oil breaks through $120 as Gustav strengthens
 A man buys fuel on the black market in the city of Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday, June 7, 2006. Nigeria is Africa´s leading oil exporter and the United States´ fifth-largest supplier, usually exporting 2.5 million barrels daily. Militant attacks
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Society & Culture Health
- Hurricane Ike menaces Cuba, Hanna sloshes into U.S. (Reuters
- Mexico undergoes legal revolution
- Artists accuse Sandinistas of vendetta against revered poet
- The loveliest beach in Mexico
 ADVANCE FOR FRIDAY NOV. 17 ** Flamingoes forage for food around the lake bed of Lake Nakuru in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya, Thursday, Nov. 9, 2006. The number of flamingoes living on the lake had declined dramatically, a number of factors have been
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- Peacekeepers, aid workers race to feed Haitians
- Storms line up to blast Caribbean as death toll rises
- 4.6 quake shakes California-Mexico border region
- First aid ship arrives in flooded Haitian city
Flood Victims Receive Food and Water Supplies in Gonaives, Haiti
Peacekeepers, aid workers race to feed Haitians
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- Mexico meat exports to U.S. suspended: USDA
- Shares of Aruba Networks fall after analyst downgrades compa
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- U.S. military sending foreign fighters to home nations
- America's voodoo human rights policy in Haiti
 SPC William Phoenix provides security on three detainees in Southern Baghdad, Iraq
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