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Haiti’s president sets election in quake-devastated nation

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After months of uncertainty, Haiti’s president Wednesday set November 28 as the day that voters in the earthquake-devastated nation will head to the polls to elect a successor.

Sirens sounded early Saturday morning across Hawaii, warning people of a possible tsunami and telling people to in coastal areas to evacuate.

Five days after the earthquake in Port-au-Prince, the fear of going back inside has subsided. But the plazas and the parks are still full.

Three Americans died in weekend violence in the area of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, a U.S. official said.

The U.S. government has managed to get talks for a terror suspect’s guilty plea agreement back on the rails.

Polar bears clinging to melting ice sheets have become one of the most frequently used images to portray the perils of climate change.

Faced with a two-year slump in sales, Cuban cigar makers have unveiled a new weapon in the hunt for consumers: Julieta, a slim smoke made just for her.

A lead investigator and another official looking into the massacre of 72 migrants whose bodies were found this week in northern Mexico are missing, President Felipe Calderon said Friday.

Venezuela has asked Interpol to arrest the owner of the only TV station still openly critical of leftist President Hugo Chavez, the government announced Friday.

Winds and rain associated with Hurricane Igor lashed Bermuda on Sunday ahead of the storm’s arrival, forecasters said, as the island braced for a potential direct hit.

A former U.S. congressman was among a group of American attorneys accompanying former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier as he spoke in the country’s capital Friday.

Newfoundland, Canada, was experiencing hurricane-force wind gusts Tuesday as Hurricane Igor rapidly passed by the island’s southeastern tip, forecasters said.

Mexico’s lower chamber of Congress has voted overwhelmingly to strip a lawmaker accused of ties with drug traffickers of his legislative duties, opening up the possibility of prosecution.

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.

Carlos Vielmann, a former Guatemalan interior minister wanted on charges of extrajudicial killings, turned himself in to authorities in Spain Thursday morning, his attorney told CNN.

A massive ice island four times the size of Manhattan that broke off the Petermann Glacier early last month has split in two.


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