Mon Sep 26, 2011 6:19 PM EDT
This much is agreed: Last Friday at the United Nations, as all eyes were on the Palestinian president's speech asking for statehood recognition, U.N. guards and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's security detail were in the hallway in a shoving match.
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Wed Jul 6, 2011 3:02 PM EDT
U.S. and Mexican officials signed an agreement Wednesday allowing each country's trucks to traverse the other's highways, implementing a key provision of the North American Free Trade Agreement after nearly two decades of bickering.
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Tue Jun 21, 2011 2:06 PM EDT
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and officials from throughout Central America are pledging to confront a problem her officials acknowledge U.S. policies helped create: a rise in activity by powerful drug cartels in the vulnerable nations of the region.
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Wed Jun 1, 2011 8:01 PM EDT
A high-level international panel slammed the war on drugs as a failure Thursday and called on governments to undertake experiments to decriminalize the use of drugs, especially marijuana, to undermine the power of organized crime.
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Tue Feb 1, 2011 9:05 PM EST
Former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier credits himself with starting Haiti's democratic process with his 1986 flight into exile and did not inform anyone that he would be coming back last month, the returned leader told Univison in an interview scheduled to be aired Tuesday night.
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Mon Jan 31, 2011 5:57 PM EST
President Rene Preval could conceivably remain in power for a few weeks beyond his soon-to-expire term if the election for his successor is deemed to be proceeding fairly, senior U.S. officials said following a one-day visit by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Fri Jan 28, 2011 7:58 PM EST
Haiti's decision to eliminate the government-backed candidate from a presidential runoff won praise from foreign powers Thursday, and the U.S. and others signaled they would agree with President Rene Preval staying in office for a few months past the end of his term.
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Thu Jan 13, 2011 8:00 PM EST
Haitian electoral officials say they are not bound by an international panel's recommendation to drop the ruling party's candidate from a disputed presidential race.
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Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:50 PM EST
The man's body lay face down, his white dress shirt shining like wax in the sun, as he was unearthed in the ruins of a Port-au-Prince restaurant a year after the earthquake.
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Tue Jan 11, 2011 5:50 AM EST
The man's body lay face down, his white dress shirt shining like wax in the sun, as he was unearthed in the ruins of a Port-au-Prince restaurant a year after the earthquake.
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Sat Jan 8, 2011 10:32 AM EST
The silhouetted bodies moved in waves through the night, climbing out of crumbled homes and across mounds of rubble. Hundreds of thousands of people made their way to the center of the shattered city by the thin light of a waning crescent moon. There was hardly a sound.
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Tue Jan 4, 2011 7:25 PM EST
International observers are waiting on Haiti's president to accept a report suggesting his party's candidate be eliminated from a contentious election to choose the quake-ravaged country's next leader.
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Fri Dec 31, 2010 12:00 AM EST
The silhouetted bodies moved in waves through the night, climbing out of crumbled homes and across mounds of rubble. Hundreds of thousands of people made their way to the center of the shattered city by the thin light of a waning crescent moon. There was hardly a sound.
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Thu Dec 16, 2010 4:32 PM EST
An American who sold his construction business and traveled to Haiti to help earthquake victims was in jail Thursday as authorities investigated allegations he kidnapped an infant.
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Wed Dec 15, 2010 10:41 PM EST
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton declared his confidence in Haiti's post-quake reconstruction effort Wednesday, making a one-day visit amid civil unrest, rampant disease and a seemingly intractable political crisis.
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Wed Dec 15, 2010 8:49 PM EST
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the establishment of an international scientific panel Friday to investigate the source of the deadly cholera epidemic in Haiti that has killed more than 2,400 people.
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Tue Dec 14, 2010 5:18 PM EST
A popular singer-turned-presidential candidate whose apparent loss in Haiti's flawed election helped spark days of rioting called Tuesday for the electoral commission to be replaced and the vote redone — with all the original candidates involved.
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Tue Dec 14, 2010 3:48 AM EST
The Organization of American States has asked Haitian President Rene Preval to delay announcing election results until an international panel of experts can review the vote, officials said Saturday.
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Thu Dec 9, 2010 5:01 PM EST
Scientists reported Thursday the strongest evidence yet that a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 2,000 people in Haiti can be traced to South Asia.
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Tue Dec 7, 2010 2:00 AM EST
Supporters of one of her competitors in Haiti's presidential election set barricades on fire and threw rubble at cars when initial results put him third. The No. 2 finisher urged his partisans to mobilize and his staff warned they could start a war.
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Thu Dec 2, 2010 7:31 PM EST
A contingent of U.N. peacekeepers is the likely source of a cholera outbreak in Haiti that has killed at least 2,000 people, a French scientist said in a report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.
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Wed Dec 1, 2010 6:40 PM EST
A leaked memo by a U.S. ambassador to Haiti said President Rene Preval's primary concern ahead of last weekend's election for his successor was to ensure the winner would not force him into exile.
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Sun Nov 28, 2010 5:37 AM EST
Frustrated presidential candidates led a march through Haiti's capital Thursday to demand officials annul an election they say was tainted by fraud.
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Fri Nov 19, 2010 6:01 PM EST
It began as a rumor that farmers saw waste from a U.N. peacekeeping base flow into a river. Within days of the talk, hundreds downstream had died from cholera.
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Wed Nov 17, 2010 5:53 AM EST
The campaign rally is charging down the street, drums beating, hot-pink signs waving. People mob the candidate, trying to grab a piece of his hand or touch his bald head, his smile a half-moon shining in the dusty afternoon light.
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