Added On January 25, 2010
A U.S. military plane is circling Haiti daily, broadcasting informational radio messages to the stricken country.
* Flying radio station gives advice, warnings in Haiti
Added On January 25, 2010
A U.S. military plane is circling Haiti daily, broadcasting informational radio messages to the stricken country.
* Flying radio station gives advice, warnings in Haiti
Two extreme passions – the religious and the worldly – shape the Middle East
Luxury apartments in the hills above Place St Pierre overlook squalid tent camps. Below, a former sweatshop worker, Darline Charles, does her laundry. She says her family cannot afford to move to a new home costing $740 for half a year. PORT-AU-PRINCE // In the colonial-style French restaurant on Place Boyer in Pétionville, the duck…
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