4,000 More Troops For Haiti
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 21st, 2010 5:54 am by HL
4,000 More Troops For Haiti
The U.S. has deployed an 4,000 additional troops to Haiti as aftershocks rocked the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday. U.S. troop presence will reach 16,000 by the weekend as relief workers try to repair the country after the initial quake which killed an estimated 200,000 people. —JCL The Guardian: A new earthquake jolted Port-au-Prince yesterday, sending people fleeing on to the streets and complicating relief efforts as the US dispatched another 4,000 troops to Haiti. A magnitude 5.9 quake, the most powerful aftershock since the 12 January cataclysm, rattled ruins in the capital and sowed panic but caused no serious reported damage or casualties. Seismologists said the epicentre was about 35 miles south-west of the city and the focus was six miles deep. They warned of possible stronger aftershocks to come as the earth adjusted to new stresses caused by the original quake. Read more
The U.S. has deployed an 4,000 additional troops to Haiti as aftershocks rocked the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on Wednesday. U.S. troop presence will reach 16,000 by the weekend as relief workers try to repair the country after the initial quake which killed an estimated 200,000 people. —JCL
The Guardian:
A new earthquake jolted Port-au-Prince yesterday, sending people fleeing on to the streets and complicating relief efforts as the US dispatched another 4,000 troops to Haiti.
A magnitude 5.9 quake, the most powerful aftershock since the 12 January cataclysm, rattled ruins in the capital and sowed panic but caused no serious reported damage or casualties.
Seismologists said the epicentre was about 35 miles south-west of the city and the focus was six miles deep. They warned of possible stronger aftershocks to come as the earth adjusted to new stresses caused by the original quake.
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Chinese Economy Grows. Again.
Even in the face of a global economic crisis, China’s economy has still managed to grow by an unexpected 8.7 percent, according to internal Chinese self-reporting, putting the country on track to overtake Japan as the world’s second-biggest national economy. —JCL The BBC: China has said its economy expanded by 8.7% in 2009, exceeding even the government’s own initial expectations. The pace of change increased as the year went on, with growth in the final quarter of 2009 increasing by 10.7% from the same period a year earlier. China is now on course to overtake Japan and become the world’s second-biggest economy. Japan announces its latest quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) figures next month. Read more
Even in the face of a global economic crisis, China’s economy has still managed to grow by an unexpected 8.7 percent, according to internal Chinese self-reporting, putting the country on track to overtake Japan as the world’s second-biggest national economy. —JCL
The BBC:
China has said its economy expanded by 8.7% in 2009, exceeding even the government’s own initial expectations.
The pace of change increased as the year went on, with growth in the final quarter of 2009 increasing by 10.7% from the same period a year earlier.
China is now on course to overtake Japan and become the world’s second-biggest economy.
Japan announces its latest quarterly gross domestic product (GDP) figures next month.
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