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Authorities in Dubai issued international arrest warrants for 11 suspects alleged to be behind the Jan. 20 murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, a top official in the Palestinian militant group Hamas. The suspects, believed to be members of a hit squad, entered the emirate using fake European passports and were captured in surveillance footage following al-Mabhouh to his hotel room disguised in wigs and tennis clothing. Hamas has accused the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad of orchestrating the assassination. Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman refused to directly comment on the matter, explaining that when it comes to security issues, "Israel...
Leading DAPA, which Travia describes as “the heart and soul of the [AODS],” comprises a significant part of his job. The DAPA program, which began in Jan. 2006, is an organization made up of Harvard undergraduates trained to respond to alcohol and drug-related questions on campus...
Backhoes and other rubble-removal equipment can't climb the steep hills and narrow streets of the bidonville, or slum, known as Carrefour-Feuilles in Port-au-Prince. More than a month after the Jan. 12 earthquake that ravaged Haiti, and which slammed Carrefour-Feuilles especially hard, much of the bidonville's clean-up is still being done with shovels and wheelbarrows. As pigs and billy goats forage in the debris, Patrick Massenat stares out at a concrete-smothered hillside. He recalls his 79-year-old mother, whose corpse he helped pull from the wreckage he's now helping...
...break during temblors. Haiti, by contrast, lets its buildings rise with little if any input from engineers and plenty of bribes to so-called government inspectors. Structures have scant reinforcement and are often set on weak foundations. That's why 13 of 15 federal ministry buildings pancaked in the Jan. 12 earthquake - and why, in 2008, 91 students and teachers died when their school in a Port-au-Prince suburb collapsed. The school's owner was convicted of involuntary manslaughter after admitting he barely even used mortar to hold its concrete blocks together. (See pictures of the Chile earthquake aftermath...
...fair, Haiti has had far less experience with earthquakes, and therefore earthquake preparedness, than Chile has. (Before Jan. 12, the last major quake to hit Port-au-Prince was in 1751.) There will, of course, be the apologists who insist it's unfair to compare a basket case like Haiti, the western hemisphere's poorest country, with a showcase like Chile, which has Latin America's highest per capita GDP and is set to become the first South American member of the exclusive, Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Chile can do things right, Haiti defenders argue...