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Jolly Phonics Celebrates International Literacy Day

pr.com     9 hrs ago          

Synthetic phonics is growing worldwide and, as the world celebrates International Literacy Day, there is an increasing focus on starting literacy programmes at an early age. As literacy workers celebrate International...                    

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upi.com: Native American delegates on the rise at DNC upi.com

Hanna death toll rises to 500 as it nears US coast

telegraph.co.uk     14 hrs ago   1,112 related          

Tropical storm Hanna is closing in on North and South Carolina with receding flood waters in Haiti revealing the corpses of nearly 500 victims of the deadly weather system. By Catherine Elsworth in Los Angeles Hanna, the...                    

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Death toll in flooded Haitian town soars

independent.co.uk     13 hrs ago   156 related          

Almost 500 people died when up to five metres of muddy water swept through the Haitian town of Gonaives this week, triggered by torrential rains from tropical storm Hanna, police said. The 495 dead in Gonaives brought the...                    

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yahoo.com: View of houses damaged by Hurricane Gustav in Nueva Gerona, Cuba. Cuba's longtime leader Fidel Castro said Gustav hit his country like a nuclear blast, and estimated it would take three to four billion dollars to cope with the emergency. yahoo.com

Raul Castro's Cuba starts changes

bbc.co.uk     12 hrs ago   9 related          

Raul Castro has begun a series of small yet symbolic changes in Cuba. President Castro took over from his ailing brother Fidel in February 2008. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites. This...                    

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U.S. Provides Additional Hurricane Assistance to Haiti

prnewswire.com     21 hrs ago   2 related          

Washington, Sept. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American people, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), are providing $7.1 million to Haiti -- of which $2.1 million is in new funding and the...                    

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cbc.ca: Nicaraguan president Daniel Ortega, seen here at left shaking hands with his rival Eduardo Montealegre, came back to power in 2006. cbc.ca

Artists accuse Sandinistas of vendetta against revered poet

guardian.co.uk     22 hrs ago   1 related          

Artists and intellectuals have accused Nicaragua's Sandinista government of betraying its revolutionary heritage by waging a vendetta against a revered poet. Ernesto Cardenal, an 83-year-old cultural figurehead, faces...                    

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CUBA: Hurricane Gustav and the Cuban Five

indymedia.org.uk     23 hrs ago          

“These adverse events should serve to make us work more efficiently every day and to make a more rational and fair use of every piece of material. We must fight our own shallowness and selfishness”… “Such effort shall come...                    

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Digested classics: To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway

guardian.co.uk     22 hrs ago          

SPRING: You know how it is early in the morning in Havana when the bums are asleep and only the real men are still drinking. The three Panchos left the bar as a car pulled into the square. I was down to my last 40 cents...                    

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washingtonpost.com: Rep. Charles B. Rangel, who bought a resort villa in the Dominican Republic 20 years ago, said he also did not know the property had generated income. washingtonpost.com

Rep. didn't pay mortgage interest on property

baltimoresun.com     17 hrs ago   25 related          

WASHINGTON Rep. Charles B. Rangel paid no mortgage interest on a beach resort property for more than 10 years, a lawyer for the powerful House committee chairman said yesterday. The New York congressman's lawyer, Lanny...                    

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Nearly 500 dead in flooded Haitian town: police (Reuters)

yahoo.com     19 hrs ago   1 related          

Reuters - Haitian police found 495 corpses when muddy floodwaters began to recede on Friday from the port city of Gonaives following days of heavy rain from Tropical Storm Hanna, the town's police commissioner said on...                    

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