Hundreds buried after flooding rocks Caribbean region
Hundreds dead and many missing after floods in the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Soldiers used dogs and shovels to search while U.S. and Canadian troops aid relief. Officials say bodies are badly decomposed, some buried in mass graves, with 860+ dead and hundreds unaccounted. Survivors recount family losses as rescue efforts face mudslides and access limits.
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Fono Verrettes
Dominican RepubLic
U.S
Leonardo Novas
Jimani
Novas
Dominican
Santo Domingo
Haiti
Fond Verrette
Jermaine Valsant
Jean- Bertrand Aristide
U.N
Sharon unveils four stage plan to pull out of Gaza
Israeli PM Ariel Sharon will present a revised unilateral disengagement plan with four stages replacing a one step pullout. The process may start with evacuating three or four isolated Gaza settlements and include later removal of remaining Gaza settlements, a Gaza military redeployment, and evacuation of four small northern West Bank settlements. The timetable remains unclear.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Ariel Sharon
Gaza Strip
Sharon
Gaza
West Bank
Likud
U.S
Mideast
United States
European Union
Russia
United Nations
Egypt
Yasser Arafat
Singapore lifts chewing gum ban with strict ID rule
Singapore ends its chewing gum ban after 12 years, selling Orbit and other brands in pharmacies only to customers who provide names and ID numbers. Violators faced up to two years in jail or fines for pharmacists. In related news, four volunteers in Beijing began the world’s first human SARS vaccine test, showing no adverse effects after four days and will be monitored for seven months.
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Singapore
Wrigley's Orbit
U.S
Philip Crane
Blll
Wrigley Co
Beijing
Xinhua
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Mark Lavie
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Banta
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Dr. Dunlap
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