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It seems only natural that with the devastating earthquakes in Haiti and Chile occurring so close together, the situations would invite comparison.
CONCEPCION, Chile – Police fired tear gas and imposed an overnight curfew to control looters who sacked virtually every market in this hard-hit city as Chile’s earthquake toll surpassed 700.
WASHINGTON – The White House is keeping close watch on the situation in Chile, where a powerful earthquake hit and sent waves across the Pacific Ocean. That’s raised the possibility of a tsunami striking Hawaii.
NAIROBI, Kenya — When Kenya promised free primary education in 2003, Peter Nyagilo thought he could afford to send all his kids to class. Years later, he’s struggling to pay fees for tuition and textbooks, and he blames a familiar foe here — corruption.
From the Huffington Post: Martin Ssempa, a Ugandan pastor, has shown hardcore pornography to a crowd gathered in a Kampala church in an effort to stir anti-homosexual sentiment, AFP reports.
JAKARTA, Indonesia — Authorities removed a statue of Barack Obama from a park in the Indonesian capital due to a public backlash and moved it Monday to a nearby elementary school that the U.S. president attended as a child.