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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Vulnerable Haiti braced for flashfloods, violent winds, and widespread destructionfrom the extremely dangerous Hurricane Matthew as thepowerful storm approached the hemispherersquo poorest country Monday.Heavy rains from the outer bands of the storm have already begun drenchingJamaica and Haiti on Monday, flooding streets and sending many people to emergency shelters as the Category 4 storm approached the two countries. Two deaths were reported in Haiti, bringing the total for the storm to at least four.Matthew had sustained winds of 140 mphas it moved north, up from 130 mphearlier in th adidas yeezy e day. The center was expected to pass just east of Jamaica and near or over the southwestern tip of Haiti early Tuesday before heading to eastern Cuba, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.As of 2 p.m. EDT, the storm was centered about 250 miles southwest of Haitirsquo capital of Port-au-Prince and 195 milessoutheast of Kingston. It was moving north at 6 mph.Thedirector of Haitirsquo Civil Protection Agency saidtwo fishermen have die mizuno running d in rough water churned up by the approaching storm, hours before it was expected to make landf adidas campus 00 all.The government banned boating along the countryrsquo coastlines starting Saturday. But the head of an 80-member fishermenrsquo association in the south coast town of Gressier says some fishermen were taking to the seas early Monday. Johnny Souffrant says, They feel they have to take risks to support t Ujde Coronavirus may never go away, World Health Organization warns
The top American civilian in Iraq predicted it will take several tens of billions of dollars to reconstruct the country, telling a newspaper in Wednesday s stanley termosy editions that the price tag is almost impossible to exaggerat stanley thermobecher e. L. Paul Bremer told The Washington Post that Iraqi oil revenue won t cover the cost, which is on top of the $4 billion monthly bill for military action. To cover the cost, a State Department official says the White House is preparing to ask Congress for a huge supplemental spending bill. Bremer said he is discussing with the interim Governing Council another way to raise money mdash; opening the country and i stanley cup ts 192 state-run enterprises to foreign investment.As Bremer weighed in on the financial cost of the effort in Iraq, the human toll rose. Two U.S. soldiers were killed Wednesday.One soldier died in a roadside bombing in Fallujah in which three others were injured. The second death came in an attack on a military convoy in Baghdad. In another incident, a third soldier died from what was dubbed a non-hostile gunshot wound. The deaths brought to 281 the number of soldiers killed since the war began. Since President Bush declared major combat over on May 1, 143 U.S. soldiers have died.The president told a veteran s group Tuesday that despite mounting U.S. casualties, the United States will not relent in its war against terrorism. Mr. Bush said Iraq has become a point of testing in the war on terror, and vowed, There will be no retreat. In other
Kgax Costa Concordia passengers allegedly ordered back to cabins post-crash
Tehran, Iranmdash; A general of Iran s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC has been killed while on a mission dunks in Syria, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday. General Abolfazl Alijani, a member of the IRGC s ground forces who was on a mission in Syria as a military adviser, was martyred on Sunday, the state broadcaster said on its website. It described Alijani as a defender of the sanctuary, a term used for those who work on behalf of Iran in Syria or Iraq, without providing more details of the attack in which he was killed. Iran says it has deployed its forces in Syria at the invitation of Damascus and only as advisers. In early August, funeral processions were held in Tehran and other Iranian cities for five IRGC members killed in Syria several years ago, after their bodies were recovered and identified through DNA testing, Iranian media reported. Mourners chant slogans during the funeral adidas samba herren ceremony of five members of Iran s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard killed in Syria, whose remains were recently recovered, in Tehran, Iran, August 4, 2022. Vahid Salemi/AP nike air max In March, the Guards said an Israeli attack in Syria had killed two of its officers, warning that Israel would pay for the crime. Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes inside Syria in recent years, targeting government positions as well as allied Iran-backed forces and fighters of L Pirc Israeli military speaks to Bibas family after Hamas claims mom, 2 kids killed in strikes
Mexico s government insisted Thursday that a black cartoon character with exaggerated features is a historical icon who deserves to be celebrated on a postage stamp mdash; and that U.S. leaders charging racism do not fully understand Mexican culture.The country s postal service this week released a series of five stamps depicting Memin Pinguin, a child s character from a c stanley cup omic book started in the 1945 that is still published in Mexico.In Washington, the White House objected, saying that racial stereotypes are offensive no matter what their origin. The Rev. Jesse Jackson branded the stamp an insult and asked Mexico to withdraw it from the market.Withdrawing the stamps would probably make them more desirable stanley becher to collectors and increase their value, say U.S. collectors.But Ruben Aguilar, a spokesman for President Vicente Fox, said the comic book stanley flask has promoted understanding and family values for decades and deserved to be enshrined on a stamp. It seems strange to me that this celebration of Mexican culture and Mexico s post office s toast to Mexican cartoonists is misunderstood, he said.Aguilar said the comic book was not racist. It s exactly the opposite. I respect the reverend Jesse Jackson s opinion, but we think that he is uninformed about the historic role of this series in Mexican culture to combat racism and promote family values, he said.It was the second time in as many months Fox s office has had to answer questions about perceived racial insensitivity.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Vulnerable Haiti braced for flashfloods, violent winds, and widespread destructionfrom the extremely dangerous Hurricane Matthew as thepowerful storm approached the hemispherersquo poorest country Monday.Heavy rains from the outer bands of the storm have already begun drenchingJamaica and Haiti on Monday, flooding streets and sending many people to emergency shelters as the Category 4 storm approached the two countries. Two deaths were reported in Haiti, bringing the total for the storm to at least four.Matthew had sustained winds of 140 mphas it moved north, up from 130 mphearlier in th adidas yeezy e day. The center was expected to pass just east of Jamaica and near or over the southwestern tip of Haiti early Tuesday before heading to eastern Cuba, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said.As of 2 p.m. EDT, the storm was centered about 250 miles southwest of Haitirsquo capital of Port-au-Prince and 195 milessoutheast of Kingston. It was moving north at 6 mph.Thedirector of Haitirsquo Civil Protection Agency saidtwo fishermen have die mizuno running d in rough water churned up by the approaching storm, hours before it was expected to make landf adidas campus 00 all.The government banned boating along the countryrsquo coastlines starting Saturday. But the head of an 80-member fishermenrsquo association in the south coast town of Gressier says some fishermen were taking to the seas early Monday. Johnny Souffrant says, They feel they have to take risks to support t Ujde Coronavirus may never go away, World Health Organization warns
The top American civilian in Iraq predicted it will take several tens of billions of dollars to reconstruct the country, telling a newspaper in Wednesday s stanley termosy editions that the price tag is almost impossible to exaggerat stanley thermobecher e. L. Paul Bremer told The Washington Post that Iraqi oil revenue won t cover the cost, which is on top of the $4 billion monthly bill for military action. To cover the cost, a State Department official says the White House is preparing to ask Congress for a huge supplemental spending bill. Bremer said he is discussing with the interim Governing Council another way to raise money mdash; opening the country and i stanley cup ts 192 state-run enterprises to foreign investment.As Bremer weighed in on the financial cost of the effort in Iraq, the human toll rose. Two U.S. soldiers were killed Wednesday.One soldier died in a roadside bombing in Fallujah in which three others were injured. The second death came in an attack on a military convoy in Baghdad. In another incident, a third soldier died from what was dubbed a non-hostile gunshot wound. The deaths brought to 281 the number of soldiers killed since the war began. Since President Bush declared major combat over on May 1, 143 U.S. soldiers have died.The president told a veteran s group Tuesday that despite mounting U.S. casualties, the United States will not relent in its war against terrorism. Mr. Bush said Iraq has become a point of testing in the war on terror, and vowed, There will be no retreat. In other
Kgax Costa Concordia passengers allegedly ordered back to cabins post-crash
Tehran, Iranmdash; A general of Iran s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps IRGC has been killed while on a mission dunks in Syria, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday. General Abolfazl Alijani, a member of the IRGC s ground forces who was on a mission in Syria as a military adviser, was martyred on Sunday, the state broadcaster said on its website. It described Alijani as a defender of the sanctuary, a term used for those who work on behalf of Iran in Syria or Iraq, without providing more details of the attack in which he was killed. Iran says it has deployed its forces in Syria at the invitation of Damascus and only as advisers. In early August, funeral processions were held in Tehran and other Iranian cities for five IRGC members killed in Syria several years ago, after their bodies were recovered and identified through DNA testing, Iranian media reported. Mourners chant slogans during the funeral adidas samba herren ceremony of five members of Iran s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard killed in Syria, whose remains were recently recovered, in Tehran, Iran, August 4, 2022. Vahid Salemi/AP nike air max In March, the Guards said an Israeli attack in Syria had killed two of its officers, warning that Israel would pay for the crime. Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes inside Syria in recent years, targeting government positions as well as allied Iran-backed forces and fighters of L Pirc Israeli military speaks to Bibas family after Hamas claims mom, 2 kids killed in strikes
Mexico s government insisted Thursday that a black cartoon character with exaggerated features is a historical icon who deserves to be celebrated on a postage stamp mdash; and that U.S. leaders charging racism do not fully understand Mexican culture.The country s postal service this week released a series of five stamps depicting Memin Pinguin, a child s character from a c stanley cup omic book started in the 1945 that is still published in Mexico.In Washington, the White House objected, saying that racial stereotypes are offensive no matter what their origin. The Rev. Jesse Jackson branded the stamp an insult and asked Mexico to withdraw it from the market.Withdrawing the stamps would probably make them more desirable stanley becher to collectors and increase their value, say U.S. collectors.But Ruben Aguilar, a spokesman for President Vicente Fox, said the comic book stanley flask has promoted understanding and family values for decades and deserved to be enshrined on a stamp. It seems strange to me that this celebration of Mexican culture and Mexico s post office s toast to Mexican cartoonists is misunderstood, he said.Aguilar said the comic book was not racist. It s exactly the opposite. I respect the reverend Jesse Jackson s opinion, but we think that he is uninformed about the historic role of this series in Mexican culture to combat racism and promote family values, he said.It was the second time in as many months Fox s office has had to answer questions about perceived racial insensitivity.
