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As Haiti struggles to cope with the aftermath of last week’s devastating earthquake, there was a call Wednesday for a modern-day Marshall Plan to build a new nation out of the country’s ruins.
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A municipal police officer was shot and killed late Thursday while standing guard at a local government booth inside a mall in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, police said Friday.
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