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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An Italian journalist was mortally wounded by gunmen who may have tried to rob him outside a bank in Haiti's capital, Haitian media reported Sunday.
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Six point eight billion of us human beings are alive today— six times as many now as were living less than 200 years ago! Why make more babies ? The world population was one billion in 1850, two billion in 1930, three billion in 1960, four billion in 1974, five billion in 1986 and six billion in 1999. Twice as many people are alive now as were living less than 50 years ago! If you already have ...
Secretary Clinton Presents the 11th Annual Awards for Corporate Excellence Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC December 9, 2009 SECRETARY CLINTON: Well, good afternoon and welcome to the Benjamin Franklin Room here on the eighth floor of the State Department. I think it’s a particularly appropriate setting since we know that Ben Franklin was many ...
Secretary Clinton Presents Awards for Corporate Excellence Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC December 9, 2009 Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 9 presented TOMS Shoes in Argentina and Voila - Communication Cellulaire d’Haiti (Trilogy International Partners) with the Secretary of State’s 2009 Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE). The ACE is given annually to U.S.-owned ...
Clifford Gebara, a close relative from Haiti and cousin of the suspected shooter, was in the home when police say Merhige walked in with two hand guns and opened fire....
Bellevue wireless company Trilogy Partners today received the Award for Corporate Excellence from the U.S. State Department, the first time a Washington company has received the award for "exemplary business practices in the area of global citizenship."
Myrlande Jean decided she wanted to be a nurse at age 9 when she saw a doctor for the first time, for an eye infection, in her native Haiti. ''The nurses were so nice. I saw how they really cared for me. I fell in love with being a nurse. I want to be kind to people like that.''
Celebrate Christmas at the annual “Lights on the Hill” festivities. The event takes place Saturday, Dec. 12, and Sunday, Dec. 13, from 4 to 8 p.m. Activities take place in historic 19th century buildings beginning at the corner of Route 27 (High Street) and South Road in Candia. Walk the beautiful village campus lined with hundreds of luminarias or ride the shuttle bus around to each site ...
Valerie L. Moore, a 2001 honors graduate of Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt , has been selected Miss Black Pennsylvania 2010.
Melida Arredondo's Marine son was killed in Iraq and the news nearly cost her husband's life. Now she looks at Obama's war with eyes of loss
At the climate summit taking place here, nobody's a bigger celebrity than the delegation from the tiny island nation of Tuvalu.
The North Platte Telegraph Just one week into his retirement back home in Nebraska, former Sergeant First Class Jack Melcher Jr. donned his uniform to complete one more task for the Army he has served for the past 21 years. During ceremonies at the U.S. Army Reserve Training facility in North Platte on Saturday afternoon, Melcher received the Honorable Order of St. Christopher from his father ...
As we reported last week, Ben Stiller is out with a new charity campaign called Stillerstrong and is looking to drive awareness to it through social media. Part of the strategy naturally involves viral videos starring the actor, and today Stiller’s revisiting a past online success and asking the omnipresent Ryan Seacrest to retweet Stillerstrong to his 2.6 million followers. The result is ...
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LOS ANGELES and FRANKFURT, Germany -- PHIGroup, Inc. , a company engaged in the development and management of real estate properties, mining interests and consulting, merger and acquisition advisory services, announced today that the company will distribute a special dividend payment to eligible shareholders with a record date of December 31, 2009.
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