President Hugo Chávez has returned home to Venezuela after an extended stay in Cuba, where he underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumour
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/ 22 January 2010
UN-led teams in Haiti have switched their focus away from searching for people trapped in collapsed buildings to providing aid to desperate survivors.
Solfa Hamed’s 11 children are hungry and she is ready to fight anyone standing between her and the aid packages for the growing number of needy Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. ”I will not leave without my bag. My 11 children are waiting at home for something to eat and my pantry is empty,” shouts the 47-year-old.
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/ 11 January 2006
Ariel Sharon’s progress since his massive brain haemorrhage has stunned doctors, but the Israeli premier still faces a long and rocky road to recovery, his chief neurosurgeon said on Wednesday. Sharon, who is being gradually awoken from a medically induced coma, is already moving ”his four limbs”.
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/ 11 January 2005
Pictures of ”martyrs” take pride of place here over posters of the newly elected Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas in this West Bank town on the doorstep of a rapidly expanding Jewish settlement. ”It’s not worth voting when you live like animals, without the right to come and go, and being kept in a cage by the Israeli government which wants to kill us all and be the only one in the Holy Land,” shrugs Ahmed Ayad, a taxi driver in Silwad.