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Decision expected on American missionaries in Haiti

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A Haitian judge will decide Wednesday the fate of two American missionaries detained on suspicion of kidnapping 33 children after the devastating earthquake in January.

We had not been in Port-au-Prince in a month, not since those horrible days following the earthquake when the city looked like wreckage.

A judge in Haiti said he expects to make a decision soon on the possible release of two American missionaries detained on suspicion of kidnapping 33 children after the earthquake in January.

At least 27 people are dead in Jamaica’s capital of Kingston amid an all-out police assault on a suspected drug lord’s stronghold, a protracted push that began Monday and persisted Tuesday, the government reported.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has declared a state of emergency for the South American nation’s electricity supply and announced a series of billing sanctions and rewards based on a customer’s energy use.

Marijuana cultivation in Mexico increased 35 percent in 2008 and continues to grow, even as authorities there push forward with a large offensive against drug cartels that smuggle the product into the United States, according to a State Department report released this week.

In a modest office in the neighborhood of Petionville, Haiti, engineers, architects, aid workers and government officials are working on the earthquake-ravaged country’s future. They call it Haiti 2.0.

Francisco and Astrid Ramos returned to Argentina from Haiti the morning of January 12, just hours before the devastating earthquake hit.

An Organization for American States body expressed “deep concern” Thursday over the violence engulfing the Caribbean nation of Jamaica and wants an inquiry into the unrest that has left at least 67 dead.

Cuban President Raul Castro has replaced two high-level government ministers — citing errors and incompetence — in the latest round of replacements at top-level government posts.

The United Nations Security Council has approved a proposal to send an additional 2,000 soldiers and 1,500 police officers to quake-ravaged Haiti, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday.

Homicide police in San Diego, California, are investigating Monday’s death of a Mexican man who was beaten and tasered by U.S. border agents three days earlier, officials said.

Violence in Jamaica surrounding the planned extradition to the United States of an alleged drug kingpin continued Monday, with police saying a number of people had died in an attack on the suspect’s stronghold in West Kingston.

Mesh Gelman’s button-down khaki shirt has turned two shades darker with sweat. But he is more concerned about who will sew the perfect placket on the knit polos he hopes to deliver to Beverly Hills Polo Club.

Authorities in Peru have rescued the last of hundreds of travelers who had been stranded by flooding in a town near one of South America’s most popular tourist destinations, a government official said Friday.


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