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Grammy-winning recording artist and philanthropist Wyclef Jean has confirmed reports that he plans to run for president of his homeland of Haiti. On Thursday, he filed the paperwork to run at an electoral council office in Port-au-Prince.Jean, who said he was inspired to run by the devastating earthquake there, will discuss his plans Thursday night on CNN Larry King Live. He confirmed his bid Thursday morning on a Miami radio station.My decision is a draft. 8230; I ;ve been drafted by the youth, Jean told Time magazine on Tuesday.Jean, whose stanley cup full name is Nel Ust Wycliffe Jean, is widely known for both his music and philanthropy in Haiti, where half the population is under age 21. In 2007, he was appointed ambassador at large, stanley cup tasked with helping improve Haiti image abroad.In 2005, with the launch of his non-profit Yele Haiti Foundation, Jean aimed at infusing the poor island nation with money and talent with the hopes of effecting change. Following the Jan. 12 earthquake, Jean called upon donors worldwide for aid and established the Yele Haiti Earthquake Fund. Though little known before the earthquake, Yele has since raised more than $9 million, according to CNN reports. In January, it reaped more than $2 million from texted-giving alone, the New York Times reported.But the organization faced criticism after it was reported that Yele had failed to keep proper records stanley cup . According to reports in the Guardian and other newspapers Eskb Biden undeterred by rival Warren s ascendancy
Firefights erupte af1 d in the southern Afghan town of Marjah on Monday, where Marines and Afghan forces are battling insurgents as part of an offensive for a third straight day.About 15,000 Afghan and foreign soldiers, led by U.S. Marines, are working to wrest control of the Taliban stronghold of Marjah in Afghanistan southern He nike dunk lmand Province. Troops pushed deeper into the town of about 75,000 to 100,000 people on Monday and encountered gunfire from several different locations, according to the Associated Press.Afghan officials said the forces have encountered low resistance and that they thought some insurgent fighters had fle stanley cup d the area possibly to Pakistan ahead of the offensive.During the second day of fighting on Sunday, a rocket missed its target by about a third of a mile and hit a home outside of Marjah, killing 12 civilians including six children, NATO officials said. NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen issued a statement extending his condolences to the families and saying Afghan and international forces will continue to do everything they can to minimize the risk to civilians.Marines and Afghan forces had been taking small-arms fire from a mud-walled compound. They returned fire with GPS-guided rockets that instead struck another building, the New York Times reported.Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, apologized to Afghan President Hamid Karzai, saying, We deeply regret this tra |
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