October, 2010 | My Gripe An Thing

Health workers fighting to keep cholera from spreading to Haiti’s capital

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ST. MARC, HAITI—An outbreak of cholera has spread outside a rural valley in central Haiti, intensifying worries the disease could reach squalid tarp camps that house hundreds of thousands of earthquake survivors in the capital. […] […]

Clinton, Cannon speak as Khadr hearing to resume

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GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA—After two days of denials and no comments, confirmation came Friday that U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton talked with Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon about Guantanamo detainee Omar Khadr. U.S. State Department […] […]

Bin Laden and No 2 under Pakistani protection: Nato

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KABUL – Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri are believed to be hiding in houses in northwest Pakistan, CNN reported last night. CNN quoted a senior Nato official as saying the al Qaeda […] […]

WikiLeaks: No US investigation of abuses

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LONDON – US forces often failed to follow up on credible evidence that Iraqi forces mistreated, tortured and killed their captives in the battle against a violent insurgency, according to accounts contained in what was […] […]

WikiLeaks details thousands of unreported Iraqi civilian deaths

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WASHINGTON — Military documents in the biggest leak of secret information in U.S. history suggest that far more Iraqis died than previously acknowledged during the years of sectarian bloodletting and criminal violence unleashed by the […] […]

WikiLeaks to publish 15,000 more Afghan war papers

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LONDON—Whistleblowing organization WikiLeaks says it will soon publish 15,000 more secret Afghan war documents. The group has already published some 77,000 U.S. intelligence reports about the war in Afghanistan, and just released almost 400,000 alleged […] […]

Jamaica on cholera alert

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JAMAICA’S health ministry yesterday placed the nation on a cholera alert in light of a major outbreak of the disease in neighbouring Haiti, which has already left more than 140 dead and about 1,500 hospitalised. […] […]

Storm hits China after killing 12 in Taiwan

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TAIPEI, Taiwan—Taiwanese rescuers searching mountainsides hit by massive mudslides unleashed by Typhoon Megi found mangled parts of a vehicle thought to be a bus that was carrying 19 missing Chinese tourists, the transport minister said […] […]

Migrants warned as race-hate killer brings fear to Sweden

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DARK-SKINNED residents of Sweden’s third-largest city were put on alert yesterday by police. The authorities believe that a would-be serial killer is behind more than a dozen shootings targeting ethnic minorities. A young woman has […] […]

Has Al-Jazeera outleaked WikiLeaks?

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AL-JAZEERA has released what it described as “startling new information” from US military documents obtained by whistleblower site WikiLeaks, alleging state-sanctioned Iraqi torture and the killing of “hundreds” of civilians at US military checkpoints. It […] […]