Haitians Panic as Workers Struggle to Bury Hundreds
In Gonaives, Haiti, residents fought over scarce food and water while workers buried hundreds of storm victims six days after Tropical Storm Jeanne. More than 1,100 killed, 1,250 missing, 250,000 homeless as health risks rise from unburied corpses, sewage, and shortages. Police station barbed wire as rioting erupts and aid trucks face road closures amid collapsing hospital capacity.
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Gonaives
Haiti
Jeanne
Louis Francois
Marilace Fortune
Bahamas
Florida
Civil Protection Agency
U.N
General Hospital
Frantz Bernier
Haiti Toll Passed 1,100 as Jeanne Heads Toward U S
Haiti reported 1,105 deaths with most in Gonaives and 1,250 missing after Hurricane Jeanne. Nearly 1,000 injured and authorities warned of epidemics from decomposing bodies and contaminated water as relief agencies urged aid.
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Gonaives
Dieufort Desforges
Civil Protection Agency
Francoise Grubos
Haiti
U.N. Children’s Fund
Russian siege victims still waiting on delayed money
In Beslan, North Ossetia, more than 20 million dollars in charity aid awaits distribution as authorities dispute the number of hostages. Officials cite confusion over how many people were inside the school during the Sept. 13 siege that left over 330 dead, including many children.
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Moscow
Russia
Beslan
Regional Development Bank
Fatima Khabalova
North Ossetian
North Ossetia
Timur Butayev
Interior Ministry
Handspringing woman damages Nazi heir art collection
A woman performing handsprings attacked two art installations at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin. She punched through a wall panel of Gordon Matta-Clark’s work and toppled a spray-painted truck sculpture, prompting security to intervene as Friedrich Christian’s collection opened.
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Berlin
Pillionaire
Ceinesda
Hamburger Bahnhof Musevarum
Friedrich Christian Ror
Gordon Matta-Clark
Klaus Dieter Lehmann
Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
Matta Clark
Lehmann
Former Brazilian drug lord Escadinha killed in Rio downtown
Jose Carlos dos Reis Encina known as Escadinha was shot dead in central Rio by two motorcyclists who blocked his car and opened fire with automatics. A second man in the car also died. He had escaped Isla Grande prison in 1985 and was on work release from Bangu at the time. Two Bangu officials had been shot nearby in recent months.
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Brazil
Jose Carlos Dos Reis
Encina
Rio
Cles
Escadinha
Isla Grande
Bango
Avenida Brasil
Bangu
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