Hurricane Ike slammed into Cuba's eastern province of Holguín late Sunday after steamrolling the Turks and Caicos Islands and killing dozens in northern Haiti. A day ahead of the storm in the Florida Keys, authorities worried that too many people ignored orders to leave before Ike comes too close for comfort.
THE OPPENHEIMER REPORT
HELSINKI, Finland -- Before arriving here, I thought that the Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union belonged to history books, and that Washington and Moscow had long ceased to compete for geographic enclaves around the world. But now, I wonder.
Hurricane Ike slammed into Cuba's eastern province of Holguín late Sunday after steamrolling the Turks and Caicos Islands and killing dozens in northern Haiti. A day ahead of the storm in the Florida Keys, authorities worried that too many people ignored orders to leave before Ike comes too close for comfort.
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In this tiny Haitian town flooded by Hurricane Ike, the grim reality set in Sunday morning as the bodies of a dozen children lay dead on a concrete slab.
Hurricane Ike roared onto Cuba Sunday after destroying houses and crops on low-lying islands and worsening floods in Haiti that have already killed more than 300 people.
Brazil and Argentina are ready to stop using U.S. dollars to trade goods between them. Brazil's president told the Buenos Aires-based Clarín newspaper that exports and imports between the two nations will be bought and sold in local currency -- reals and pesos.
Shortly after midnight in a nearly empty radio studio, Marta Gonzalez unfolded a piece of paper, leaned into the microphone, and read a message to her hostage husband. Her letter was one of about 100 plaintive messages from the relatives of hostages broadcast during a recent edition of Voices of Kidnapping.
Clara Ortiz Torres had family in Houston, making it easier to leave Colombia for graduate school here. She quickly found she was in good company as an international student at the University of Houston's Bauer College of Business. There, as at MBA programs around the country, applications from overseas are up.
The government of Ecuador has decided, and Washington has apparently agreed, that one of the most important foreign outposts in the United States' war on drugs will close. The 450 U.S. Air Force personnel and contractors stationed at a military base that shares the airport runway in Manta, will be leaving next year.
