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Having spent 30 years treating local children as a New Iberia pediatrician, Dr. Mike Halphen and his wife, Tommye, are living proof that retirement can serve as an even better means of bringing help to those less fortunate than many locals could comprehend.
At the climate summit in Copenhagen, nobody's a bigger celebrity than the delegation from the tiny island nation of Tuvalu.
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(WINTER HAVEN, FLA.) – Andre Berto and the Carma Foundation will hold the first-ever Jingle Bell Ball, on Sunday, December 13, benefitting the organization’s philanthropic efforts in Haiti.
The Obama administration is trying to get the "emergency" out of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief.
Measures to contain the H1N1 flu virus -- or swine flu -- have become even more important as the Caribbean enters the high tourist season this month.
Grace Eckhoff took an unlikely path to the University of Texas. She home-schooled herself in Haiti while her parents, both physicians, worked at a hospital. After graduating from Bellaire High School near Houston, she moved to Afghanistan with her parents.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Haiti's U.N. peacekeeping mission urged local officials Friday to provide a justification for banning 17 political groups from participating in next year's legislative elections.
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Haitians call it Medika Mamba -- peanut butter medicine. Missouri pediatrician Pat Wolff developed the goobers-and-powdered-milk concoction that is saving kids' lives in the hemisphere's poorest country; Pinecrest social worker Fran Storper and her grandchildren are helping to get it onto their plates.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (AP) — Haiti's electoral council has banned the influential party of exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide from running in next year's legislative elections.
A top UN official sounded the alarm Tuesday about "terrorists and anti-government forces" in Africa's Sahel belt increasingly using revenues from drug trafficking to fund their operations.
Bangladesh, Myanmar and Honduras were the countries most severely affected by extreme weather events from 1990 to 2008, according to a climate change risk study published on Tuesday.
Valerie L. Moore, a 2001 honors graduate of Eleanor Roosevelt High School in Greenbelt , has been selected Miss Black Pennsylvania 2010.