International

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A popular Haitian musician, rather than the government’s candidate, should advance to a presidential runoff, an international panel of election experts recommended Monday. The group, convened by the Organization of American States at the request of President Rene Preval, also said that while 50,935 votes were discarded because of fraud, the disputed […]

Haiti — Officer Joseph Jacquet is one of six Haitian-born NYPD officers on a three-month rotation in Port-au-Prince.

Great Britain — The world’s fattest man wants to fight obesity: with a lawsuit. Paul Mason, who once weighed almost 1,000 pounds, is blaming the NHS (Britain’s public health system) for sending him to dietitians who merely told him to lose weight — but didn’t identify his problem as an eating disorder, British newspaper the […]

The massive, 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti last January 12th, killing 230,000 and making 1.3 million more homeless. Sean Penn flew to the country to help one week later. Now, it’s his life’s work.

World — Most students of American history understand that a dramatic re-peopling of North and South America began in the years after Christopher Columbus first landed in the New World. But they may not realize that it was Africa, not Europe, that formed the wellspring of this repopulation process. In the 3¼ centuries between 1492 […]

Haiti– Imagine having your eye stuck open for more than a year. No blinking, no shielding from the sun, not closing when you sleep. That’s what a Haitian man suffered, until a Florida doctor offered a solution, free of charge.

NEW YORK New cables released by WikiLeaks show the extent of the DEA’s involvement with the worldwide drug trade as well as the extent of political corruption that drugs are causing in several countries. One cable reported that the District Attorney of Sierra Leone offered a $2.5 million dollar bribe to free South American drug […]

Haiti — There are reports in Haiti, that people connected to Voodoo are being lynched and burned in Haiti because some Haitians feel that they are responsible for the cholera epidemic. The AFP reports: Angry Haitian mobs have lynched at least 45 people in recent weeks, accusing them of spreading a cholera outbreak that has […]

(NIGERIA-Talking Points Memo) Halliburton will pay Nigeria $35 Million to settle a bribery dispute with its former CEO, Dick Cheney, the ex-Vice President of The United States Of America. Talking Points Memo reports: US oil services group Halliburton agreed to pay Nigeria 35 million dollars to settle a bribery dispute which led to charges being […]

ABIDJAN, COTE D’IVOIRE— The UN peacekeeping mission in Côte d’Ivoire has called for all parties to show restraint and to remain calm amidst reports of violent clashes, which have now reached the perimeters of the U.S. Embassy in the African country. Côte d’Ivoire has been thrust into political uncertainty after the incumbent president refused to […]

Virginia — Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old U.S. Army Private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks, has never been convicted of that crime, nor of any other crime. Despite that, he has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig in Quantico, Virginia for five months — and for two months before that in a military […]

Netherlands— The International Criminal Court’s prosecutor named a former Kenyan Cabinet minister and five others on Wednesday as the alleged orchestrators of postelection violence in 2007 that left more than 1,000 people dead. Luis Moreno Ocampo wants judges to charge six Kenyan leaders, including the son of the country’s founding father, with crimes against humanity […]