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Hanna Drenches Waterlogged Haiti

26 dead, thousands stranded as island suffers through another storm

(Newser) - Far-reaching Tropical Storm Hanna drenched flood-plagued Haiti today, adding to the miseries of a country that has lost 110 lives to mudslides and flooding since mid-August. The storm was expected to sweep across the Bahamas and then start climbing along the US coastline by the weekend, with a 20% chance...

Gustav Slams Jamaica as Gulf Coast Braces

Tropical storm could be category 3 hurricane by tomorrow

(Newser) - Tropical Storm Gustav pummeled Jamaica today with 65mph winds and may build to a category 3 storm by the time it reaches Cuba tomorrow, CNN reports. The storm killed some 51 in Haiti and eight in the Dominican Republic yesterday. Officials in the National Hurricane Center’s “cone of...

Gustav Kills 11, Weakens
 Gustav Kills 11, Weakens
Aug 27, 2008 11:09 AM CDT

Gustav Kills 11, Weakens

Could strike US as Category 3

(Newser) - Thousands fled their homes as Hurricane Gustav triggered flooding and landslides that killed at least 11 people in the Dominican Republic and Haiti before weakening to a tropical storm, but forecasters said today that he still represents a major threat to the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico. They suggested...

Hurricane Gustav to Hit Haiti
 Hurricane Gustav to Hit Haiti
Aug 26, 2008 7:48 AM CDT

Hurricane Gustav to Hit Haiti

Expected to make landfall later today

(Newser) - Hurricane Gustav is expected to make landfall in Haiti later today, Bloomberg reports, buffeting a country already hard hit by Tropical Storm Fay earlier this month. Gustav was upgraded from a tropical storm earlier this morning, after strengthening over the Caribbean. The National Hurricane Center said that preparations should “...

Fla. Keys Unfazed by Fay
 Fla. Keys
 Unfazed by Fay
Aug 18, 2008 6:11 PM CDT

Fla. Keys Unfazed by Fay

Residents dismiss storm that scares off tourists

(Newser) - Tropical Storm Fay has scared off tourists but left laid-back Florida Key residents unconcerned, the AP reports. "We're not worried about it. We've seen this movie before," said one Floridian who was stocking up on food and whiskey today. The storm that killed at least eight in Haiti...

Fay May Hit Fla. as Hurricane
 Fay May Hit Fla. as Hurricane
Aug 17, 2008 6:45 AM CDT

Fay May Hit Fla. as Hurricane

Tropical storm carries 50 mph winds

(Newser) - Tourists were ordered to evacuate the Florida Keys this morning, as Tropical Storm Fay, which has already killed six in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, is expected to hit the Keys as soon as midnight tonight, the Miami Herald reports. With winds at 50mph and rising, Fay could be a...

Storm Kills 4 in Haiti; Fla. Preps for 'Disaster'

(Newser) - Flooding from Tropical Storm Fay killed four people in Haiti and the Dominican Republic, and authorities warned Saturday that the storm could reach hurricane strength as it barreled toward Cuba. Florida's Gov. Charlie Crist declared a state of emergency and said Fay threatened the state with a "major disaster....

Haitians Turn to Mud Cakes to Fill Empty Bellies

Food price hikes push everything but dirt out of reach for Haiti's poor

(Newser) - Impoverished Haitians have been reduced to living off mud cakes, the Guardian reports. The cakes of clay and water—long eaten by poor pregnant women seeking calcium—are increasingly the only food many families can afford. The global fuel and food crisis has hit Haiti, and half the population is...

Haitian Senate Sacks Prime Minister

Food riots spark ouster of president's close ally

(Newser) - Amid skyrocketing food prices and deadly riots in Haiti, the country's senate has voted to oust Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis. President Rene Preval, who appointed his ally Alexis in 2006 to lead the country's coalition government, must now choose a new cabinet. The vote came in spite of a recently...

Haitians Protest as Food Prices Soar

Capital shuts down as mob tries to storm presidential palace

(Newser) - Hungry Haitians attacked the presidential palace yesterday, demanding the resignation of President Rene Preval over soaring food prices, Reuters reports. UN peacekeepers fired rubber bullets and tear gas to control the angry mob; a week of protests has killed five people and paralyzed the impoverished capital. “If we are...

Obama Inspires Caribbean Serenade

Candidate-themed calypso, reggae tunes hit YouTube

(Newser) - Barack Obama is inspiring tropical love songs, the Miami Herald reports, and the tunes—from Trinidad calypso king the Mighty Sparrow’s Barack the Magnificent to Jamaican reggae fixture Cocoa Tea’s Barak Obahama—are firing up YouTube. The songs are also a signal of the Illinois Democrat's popularity outside...

Hillary Was Adviser, Not Decider
Hillary Was Adviser, Not Decider
Dec 26, 2007 4:33 PM CST

Hillary Was Adviser, Not Decider

First Lady didn't handle intel but was a presidential sounding board

(Newser) - Hillary Clinton spent her 8 years in the White House informally advising her husband and jetting around the world mediating social crises, the New York Times says, but the first lady had little direct experience with war or terrorism. She didn’t do “the heavy lifting of foreign policy,...

Caribbean Storm's Toll at 38
Caribbean Storm's Toll at 38
Dec 15, 2007 8:32 AM CST

Caribbean Storm's Toll at 38

Tens of thousands homeless as UN scrambles for aid

(Newser) - The death toll from a violent storm that ripped through the Caribbean earlier this week has risen to 38 as flood waters recede and rescuers comb through the wreckage, the BBC reports. All but three of the deaths from Tropical Storm Olga were in the Dominican Republic, where tens of...

Foreign Adoptions Down 15%
Foreign Adoptions
Down 15%
Dec 2, 2007 5:11 AM CST

Foreign Adoptions Down 15%

US families adopt fewer kids abroad due to strict new policies

(Newser) - US adoptions from abroad have sunk for the third straight year, mostly because China and Russia have tougher policies, AP reports. A drop in adoptions from Haiti and South Korea have also added to the 15% decline since 2004. But a spike in adoptions from Guatemala, Ethiopia, and Vietnam have...

Noel Grazes Mass., Hits Canada
Noel Grazes Mass., Hits Canada
Nov 4, 2007 11:45 AM CST

Noel Grazes Mass., Hits Canada

43,000 New Englanders lose power in winds up to 70 mph

(Newser) - New England was only hit with the remnants of Hurricane Noel, but that was enough to cut power for about 43,000 people, with winds howling up to 70 mph. Massachusetts felt the brunt of the storm, with Cape Cod and coastal communities suffering most of the outages. The storm...

Hurricane Noel Toll Hits 108
Hurricane Noel Toll Hits 108
Nov 2, 2007 3:54 AM CDT

Hurricane Noel Toll Hits 108

Furious storm slammed Caribbean, but is expected to spare Florida

(Newser) - Tropical storm Noel was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane last night, and has claimed 108 lives, making it the deadliest Atlantic storm this year. The island of Hispaniola suffered nearly all the fatalities, with 66 reported in the Dominican Republic and 40 in Haiti, most of them in or...

Noel Kills 81; Surges to Bahamas
Noel Kills 81; Surges to Bahamas
Nov 1, 2007 7:58 AM CDT

Noel Kills 81; Surges to Bahamas

Bahamas brace for storm as Noel gathers strength

(Newser) - Children were torn from parents' arms by surging floodwater as Tropical Storm Noel continued to drench Hispaniola yesterday and churned toward the Bahamas, where it may reach hurricane strength when it makes landfall today. Flooding and mudslides in the Dominican Republic and Haiti pushed the death toll in the region...

Noel Deaths and Damage Mount
Noel Deaths and Damage Mount
Oct 31, 2007 2:29 PM CDT

Noel Deaths and Damage Mount

59 dead in the Caribbean as the storm takes aim at the Bahamas

(Newser) - The death toll from Tropical Storm Noel rose to 59 in the Caribbean today, with the storm moving on from Cuba and headed towards the Bahamas, the Miami Herald reported today. The Dominican Republic's government reported 41 dead with 20 more missing, and Haitian authorities, who had previously reported no...

Weaker Noel Soaks Cuba
Weaker Noel Soaks Cuba
Oct 30, 2007 5:10 PM CDT

Weaker Noel Soaks Cuba

Storm will hit Bahamas next, probably miss Florida

(Newser) - Tropical Storm Noel hit Cuba today as its rains kept drenching the Dominican Republic and Haiti, CNN reports. The ex-hurricane's 40 mph winds and 5 to 15 inches of rain are expected to stay over Cuba tonight before moving north tomorrow. Forecasters say the storm will likely miss the US,...

AIDS Came to US From Haiti Years Before It Was ID'd: Study

'Unnerving' how long it existed 'below radar'

(Newser) - The AIDS virus reached America through Haiti, not directly from Africa, and far earlier than has been suspected—the 1960's, not the early 1980's, researchers have discovered. Scientists analyzed 25-year-old blood samples and used what they know of the virus' mutations to construct a rough timeline of the progression of...

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