Positive news from Haiti
Dumped Shoes Will Be Given Out In Haiti (w/Video)Miami, Florida, USA - Thousands of shoes mysteriously dumped on the Palmetto Expressway last week will be given to the people of Haiti. |
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Miami’s American Airlines Employees Fly To Haiti For Good CauseMiami, Florida, USA - American Airlines employees are taking time off during the holiday season to deliver much needed assistance to the residents of Haiti in time for the holidays. |
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Haiti: UN fund to step up support for hurricane survivors
Survivors of this season's four devastating hurricanes in Haiti will receive a boost from the United Nations fund set up to help in the wake of major disasters, the UN relief chief has announced after visiting the struggling Caribbean country.
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US to help rebuild washed-out Haitian bridgePort-Au-Prince, Haiti - The American Embassy in Haiti says the U.S. will help rebuild a key bridge that collapsed during this summer's devastating floods. |
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UN agency delivers food supplies for over half a million in Haiti
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is expanding its relief operations across hurricane-devastated Haiti, supplying enough stocks of food to reach 500,000 people as the Caribbean country tries to recover from the recent series of deadly storms.
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Rain Power: Harvesting Energy from the SkyGrenoble, France - Researchers who study energy harvesting see energy all around us – we just need to find a way to capture that energy. One of the latest energy harvesting techniques is converting the mechanical energy from falling raindrops into electricity that can be used to power sensors and other electronics devices. |
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Haiti: UN pledges to help Government improve security in 2008The United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti will continue to help the Government to improve border security in 2008, the Organization’s top official in the Caribbean nation has pledged. |
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Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Saving a baby: With faith and fortitude, a student helps an infant get surgeryDetroit, Michigan, USA - Enraptured by the stories of missionaries, Mallery Thurlow grew up wanting to be one. |
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News from the Caribbean
- New law to protect Puerto Rico leatherback turtles
- Seeking justice for Haiti’s rape victims
- Finding hope on the soccer fields of Haiti
- Grand Cayman blue iguana: Back from the brink of extinction
- Shark fishing banned in the Bahamas
- Huge Coral Reefs Discovered off Puerto Rico
- Cholera outbreak in Haiti ‘stabilising’
- KC Woman Brings Home Adopted Haitian Child
- Telethon raises ‘record’ $57m for Haiti victims
- Solar salvation for Haiti?