Tension grows between Haiti's Christian and Voodoo groups
In Port-au-Prince, Christian and Voodoo leaders join for a national mourning as religious divides widen after the January earthquake that killed over 200,000. Aid by evangelical churches prompts conversions while Voodoo stresses ancestral roots and resilience amid widespread aid needs.
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Port-Au-Prince
Haiti
Max Beauvoir
Associated Press
Rene Preval
Developing World
Jehovah's Witnesses
Florian Gauthier
Elisabeth Debrosse Preval
Jean Max Bellerive
Dominican lawyer for Haiti detainees lacks license
A Dominican man who has advised 10 Americans held in Haiti on child abduction charges lacks a license to practice law in the Dominican Republic. Officials say he registered with the bar association or obtained credentials, while authorities ponder a possible criminal complaint. Puello denies trafficking links and did not comment further.
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Santo Domingo
Dominican Republic
Haiti
Jorge Puello
Bar
Jose Parra
Dominican Lawyers Association
Parra
Justice Department
Puello
U.S
New York Times
el Salvador
Howard Cotto
National Police
Associated Press
Sean Lankford
Meridian
Idaho
Ivory Coast dissolves government ahead of delayed elections
President Laurent Gbagbo dissolves the government and disbands the independent election commission, asking Prime Minister Guillaume Soro to form a new cabinet. The move halts talks on elections long overdue since Gbagbo's term expired five years ago and follows disputes over voter rolls and the commission head.
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Abidjan
Ivory Coast
Election Commission
Laurent Gbagbo
Guillaume Soro
Gbagbo
Independent Election Commission
Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso
Robert Beugre Mambe
Mambe
New Forces
Rinaldo Depagne
West Africa
International Crisis Group
Soro
Depagne
Iraqi U S raid near Iranian border kills five to ten
Iraqi U S forces in a village near the Iran border clashed with suspected weapons smugglers. Officials cited five militants killed and up to ten civilians dead amid conflicting casualty counts. Twelve people linked to Kateb Hezbollah detained. A separate Kufa blast killed six Shiite pilgrims with forty wounded.
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Baghdad
U.S
Maysan
Iraq
Ali al-Sharqi
Kateb Hezbollah
Mohammed al-Askari
Maytham Lafta
Ized
Kufa
Radwan al-Kindi
Najaf
Rostov-On-Don
Russia
Ingushetia
Chechnya
Svetlana Gorbakova
Kaloi Akhilyov
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RIA Novosti
Alexander Skopintsev
Primorye
Skopintsev
Nick Abraham
Elyria Ford
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Elyria City
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