Haiti’s outgoing President Michel Martelly has reached an agreement with parliament to form a caretaker government when he leaves power this weekend without an elected successor, in a step that could calm violent protests rocking the capital.
Under the agreement due to be signed later on Saturday, parliament will elect an interim president for a four-month term, said the Organisation of American States, which helped broker the deal among deeply divided politicians in the Caribbean nation.
A presidential runoff due to be held last month was scrapped after opposition candidate Jude Celestin threatened to boycott the vote over allegations of fraud in the first round, and protesters took to the streets in force.
Martelly is set to leave office on Sunday.
The interim president’s primary job will be to quickly hold a presidential election, which under the deal, should happen on April 24, with the new elected leader taking power in May.
Sure, it'll be quick. All the problems will magically disappear now that the big cheese is out of the way...
Port-au-Prince has seen almost daily protests by both opposition and government supporters since January, culminating in the lynching of a former soldier during a march on Friday.
Any caretaker government will have to overcome deep disagreements about how the election should be organised and which candidates can participate, since many opposition politicians are convinced the first round vote was riddled with fraud that favoured ruling party candidate Jovenel Moise. The government denies the allegations.
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what a f*cked up hellhole. Dominican Republic isn't nearly as bad, yet shares the same land
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[Khaama (Afghanistan)] An Iraqi refugee has raped a 10-year-old boy in Austria with police officials saying the perpetrator has admitted to the wrongdoing, saying sexual assault on the child was as a result of 'sexual emergency'.
According to reports, the incident took place in a public swimming pool in Vienna, the capital city of Austria late last year.
Local newspaper Kronen Zietung quoting police officials reported that the 20-year-old Iraqi refugee dragged the boy into the changing rooms on 22 December, pulling down his swimming trunks and assaulting him.
The man was placed in durance vile You have the right to remain silent... after police was informed regarding the incident that resulted to severe injuries to the child was then admitted to the hospital for the treatment.
According to the newspaper, the man told police the attack was the result of a "sexual emergency" as he had not had sex in four months.
The man further added that he knew it was "a huge mistake" and said he did not mean to "scar the boy".
"Such a thing is forbidden in any country in the world," the man admitting to his wrongdoing said while responding to a question whether it was illegal to have sex with young boys in Iraq.
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Bobbitize him and send him back to the hellhole that spawned him.
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I'm sure the thought process was, "I need. I need...But if I touch one of their wimmen I'll get sent back, dammit! I know -- they won't fuss about a boy..."
[Daily Caller] Will Beyonce Perform This Song About 'Black Lives Matter' At The Super Bowl?
Beyonce released an unexpected new music video on her website Saturday.
"Formation" is her first song since she released her album at the end of 2014, and in the beginning of the video, Beyonce stands on top of a submerged cop car in a post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans.
Later on, a small child in a black hoodie stands in front of a line of officers before the words "Stop shooting us" flash across the screen.
Beyonce is performing with Coldplay during the halftime show Sunday, and Rolling Stone reports that she was practicing the number during her Super Bowl rehearsal. Related story from the Daily Beast.
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...If this is true, BrerRabbit speaks wisdom - the NFL was already looking at considerably reduced money this time around because neither team is in a really big TV market. Starting a sh!tstorm to satisfy a few SJWs will make them regret it.
Mike
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That's why I only watch the Super Bowl starting with the third quarter.
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NFL should sponsor a competition to find the best high school marching band in the country and then have that band perform at the Super Bowl. No more geriatric rock bands, no more costume malfunctions, no more speculation on how some of these skanks and slezoids are going to embarrass themselves and the whole country too. Just an all American group of kids playing music and marching up and down the field. If you want fireworks at the end of their performance that'd be OK too.
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The Super-what?
Is it something about football? Geez, isn't that ever going to be over?
Anyway, I'll be washing my cat today, so who cares what a Bouncer sings about?
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Too many commercials. Too much time spent on "expert commentary." Both destroy any continuity in watching the GAME.
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I'm with magpie; the pomp completely overshadows the game.
I watched nearly the entire World Series with the sound off. Game 1 I was openly mocking the announcers. Game 2 I knew all I needed to know about The Metros and was barfing at the obstructive commentating. Game 3, The Mute come out.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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