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• Rescuers can't get aid to starving Haitian city
GONAIVES, Haiti - The convoy rumbled out of the U.N. base toward a flooded, starving and seething city Thursday, carrying some of the first food aid since Tropical Storm Hanna killed 137 Haitians and drowned Gonaives in muddy water three days ago ...
• U.N.: Nations not doing enough on poverty
UNITED NATIONS - In criticism aimed primarily at the United States, Japan and the European Union, a U.N. report said Thursday that rich nations haven't delivered on promises to help the world's poorest nations and must increase aid by $18 billion a ...
• Hanna bears down on Southeast as Ike weakens
Jeff Achterberg, bottom, of Verity Property Maintenance, and workers George Steelman, left, and Glenn Padrick work to board the windows of Achtenberg's home on Thursday, in Ocean Isle Beach, N.C. WILMINGTON, N.C. - Tropical storm watches or warnings ...
• Goldman cuts Merrill to sell, sees fresh writedowns
Merrill Lynch & Co N>, battered by more than $40 billion of write-downs tied largely to mortgages, will likely incur fresh write-downs, in addition to those assumed after its recent sale of repackaged debt to Lone Star Funds, said an analyst at ...
• Giants still have 'something to prove'
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - We’re happy, damnit! Can’t you see our smiles?! Now hit the road, ya bottom-feeders! Not to say the enthusiasm felt a bit forced after the New York Giants pummeled and then rope-a-doped the Washington Redskins 16-7 in the ...