Haiti heads for elections, police keep marches apart
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Armed Haitian police kept apart boisterous supporters of rival presidential candidates in Port-au-Prince on Thursday as the earthquake-hit Caribbean country heads for turbulent elections this weekend in the grip of a cholera epidemic. A supporter of presidential candidate Jude Celestine holds up a poster of Celestine during a rally in Port-au-Prince November 25, 2010. (REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz) Sporadic violence, including street clashes between protesters and U.N. peacekeepers in Port-au-Prince and the northern city of Cap-Haitien, has added the stench of burning tires and tear gas to the stink of squalor and disease from overflowing cholera hospitals and earthquake…
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