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Looting near U.N. base in Haiti; Ban promises more aid

EghtesadOnline: Haitians desperate for relief from hunger and sickness in the wake of Hurricane Matthew looted United Nations trucks on Saturday during a short visit to a hard-hit port town by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who promised more aid.
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Publish Date:16/October/2016 | 08:04

Drownings push hurricane death toll to 19 in flooded North Carolina

EghtesadOnline: Rivers swollen by rainfall from Hurricane Matthew rose dangerously higher in North Carolina on Wednesday, prompting officials to go door to door urging residents to leave as a wide swath of the state faced its worst flooding in 17 years.
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Publish Date:13/October/2016 | 07:35
The Clinton and Trump campaigns grapple with how to address the storm—and looming deadlines—without politicizing a natural disaster.

Hurricane Matthew Could Also Wreak Havoc on the Presidential Election

EghtesadOnline: As Florida braces for the most powerful hurricane to hit the U.S. in 12 years, the presidential campaigns are grappling with how to address the storm—and the state's looming voter registration deadline—without politicizing a natural disaster.
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Publish Date:08/October/2016 | 09:40

Millions flee inland as Southeast U.S. braces for Hurricane Matthew

EghtesadOnline: The fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade slammed into the Bahamas early on Thursday, intensifying as it barreled towards the southeast U.S. coast where a mass exodus was under way with millions heeding warnings to flee inland.
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Publish Date:06/October/2016 | 09:40

Haitians scramble for shelter from powerful Hurricane Matthew

EghtesadOnline: Haitians living in vulnerable coastal shacks frantically sought safe shelter as the strongest Caribbean storm in nine years, Hurricane Matthew , closed in on the southwestern peninsula, sending storm surges, wind and rain into seaside towns.
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Publish Date:04/October/2016 | 07:31

Hurricane Matthew fears grow in Haiti, some resist shelters

EghtesadOnline: Fears mounted in Haiti as Hurricane Matthew edged closer on Monday, bringing 145 mile-per-hour (230 kph) winds and life-threatening rain that could wreak havoc in the Caribbean nation, where some 2,000 people in one coastal town refused to evacuate.
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Publish Date:03/October/2016 | 05:26

Evacuations in Guantanamo, Haiti as fierce Hurricane Matthew looms

EghtesadOnline: The United States prepared to airlift hundreds of people from its Guantanamo Bay naval base as the most powerful cyclone to form over the Atlantic since Hurricane Felix in 2007 ground slowly toward Jamaica, Haiti and Cuba.
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Publish Date:02/October/2016 | 04:49

Hurricane Matthew death toll nears 900 in Haiti, cholera takes lives

EghtesadOnline: Hurricane Matthew 's trail of destruction in Haiti stunned those emerging from the aftermath on Friday, with the number of dead soaring to 877, tens of thousands left homeless and outbreaks of cholera already claiming more lives.
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Publish Date:08/October/2016 | 08:57

Hurricane Matthew hits Haiti and Cuba, takes aim at Bahamas, U.S.

EghtesadOnline: Hurricane Matthew , the fiercest Caribbean storm in almost a decade, powered towards the Bahamas and the U.S. coast early on Wednesday after battering Haiti and Cuba with torrential rain, wreaking havoc among the struggling Haitian population.
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Publish Date:05/October/2016 | 07:40