Category: News
News:
Massive Magnitude 8.8 Quake Hits Chile, Killing Dozens
A massive 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck Chile early Saturday, collapsing buildings, killing dozens and downing phone lines. President Michele Bachelet declared a "state of catastrophe" in central Chile and said the death toll was rising.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,587565,00.html
News:
Texas Pilot Offered Little Hint of Intentions Before Attack
A software engineer who crashed his plane into a Texas office building containing nearly 200 Internal Revenue Service employees, killing himself and at least one worker, apparently left behind an irate anti-government manifesto but offered little other hint of his intentions before the attack.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,586781,00.html
News:
In Need of Port Repairs, Haiti Relocating 400,000
Gov't to move 400,000 people to resettlement areas amid worries over sanitation, disease
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583604,00.html
News:
New 6.1-quake hits Haiti, people flee into streets
A powerful aftershock struck Haiti on Wednesday, shaking buildings and sending screaming people running into the streets only eight days after the country's capital was devastated by a major earthquake.
Source: http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100120/D9DBFB6G0.html
News:
More U.S. Troops, U.N. Peacekeepers Head to Haiti
Thousands of U.S. Marines were expected off the shore of this crumbled capital city Monday to help relief organizations get supplies to Haitian earthquake survivors who questioned foreigners, soldiers and God about aid yet to arrive.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583250,00.html
News:
Woman Pulled From Rubble as Aid Trickles Into Haiti
Rescuers pulled a dehydrated but otherwise uninjured woman from the ruins of a luxury hotel in the Haitian capital early Sunday, an event greeted with applause from onlookers witnessing rare good news in a city otherwise filled with corpses, rubble and desperation.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583206,00.html
News:
Officials Evacuate Terminal at JFK Airport Due to Security Breach
Port Authority of New York and New Jersey spokesman Steve Coleman says travelers at Kennedy's Terminal 8 are being asked to leave and will be re-screened. Coleman didn't describe the breach.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583197,00.html
News:
ANARCHY: WHO'S RUNNING HAITI??
Desperate Haitians turned rubble-strewn streets and parks into makeshift hospitals and refugee camps on Thursday in the absence of any noticeable response from authorities in Haiti after Tuesday's earthquake.
With the 7.0 magnitude earthquake collapsing the presidential palace, a string of ministries and the headquarters of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the country, Haiti faces a dangerous vacuum in security and government.
Source: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N14205092.htm
News:
Nigerian Suspect Held Key Meetings With Al Qaeda Operative
SAN'A, Yemen — For 10 days this summer, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab took language classes in this ancient city on the Arabian Peninsula. He lived in student housing, appearing to his fellow students to be devout, friendly and generally content.
Then, he was gone.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583173,00.html?test=late...
News:
U.N.'s World Health Organization Eyeing Global Tax on Banking, Internet Activity
The World Health Organization (WHO) is considering a plan to ask governments to impose a global consumer tax on such things as Internet activity or everyday financial transactions like paying bills online.
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583127,00.html?test=late...