LE NOUVELLISTE (Haiti), CNN, THE MIAMI HERALD (US) Worldcrunch Hurricane Sandy has torn across the Caribbean, leaving 21 people dead in its wake, and is expected to make landfall in New England early next week. Forecasters warned that the late-season storm could wreak havoc along America’s east coast, making landfall sometime before Halloween, provoking many […]
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LE NOUVELLISTE, LE MATIN (Haiti), MIAMI HERALD (US) Worldcrunch Bulldozers have started tearing down Haiti’s National Palace. Once a symbol of national pride, its crumbling façade has become a constant reminder of the devastating earthquake that hit the country in 2010. However, as the Palace demolition began on Thursday, the Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste criticized […]
USA TODAY, CNN, NEW YORK TIMES (USA) Worldcrunch NEW ORLEANS – Hurricane Isaac made a second landfall in Louisiana early Wednesday with strong winds and torrential rains, providing the first real test of flood control systems and emergency services in New Orleans on the seventh anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The storm first hit Port Fouchon […]
SANTO DOMINGO – In a soft voice, Elena Lorac tells her Kafkaesque story. Born 23 years ago in the midst of the Sabana Grande de Boya sugar cane plantations, 90 kilometers north of Santo Domingo, the young woman is stateless. Dominican authorities won’t give her a cedula (an ID card), using the excuse that her […]
Editorial: In the aftermath of Japan’s earthquake, we see that human progress may be hardwired to turn nature’s potential for catastrophe into something so much worse.
An Italian geologist explains disaster tolls’ links to poverty and bad planning, and why Japan’s quake damage could have been much worse. But the tsunami is a reminder that even prevention has its limits. Japanese quake (Yuichiro Haga) They have survived the end of the world, the “Big One,” the most powerful of them all. […]
Meet the only woman running a tent city in Haiti for survivors of earthquake. Can she stop the sexual violence? Haiti tent city ( Edyta Materka) PORT-AU-PRINCE – Magaline Richard is sporting an orange dress and a pair of cheap, colorful earrings. Her look is less proud than hardened. An icy stare borders on expressionless, […]