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Toronto Blue Jays slugger Jose Bautista doesn’t have a problem with the excessive random drug testing he said Major League Baseball has required of him over the past two seasons, when he totalled 97 home runs and claims to have had 16 tests. “I don’t car
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Santo Domingo.- Argentina Foreign Relations minister Héctor Timerman said his country won’t use troops to solve the century-old dispute with Great Britain over the Falklands Islands, during a meeting with president Leonel Fernandez , who stated Dominican
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Santo Domingo.- The journalist and TV producer Guillermo Gomez affirmed Sunday that president Leonel Fernandez and the Dominican Government has been “sacking” the country and seeks to destroy him and his family with a “moral firing squad.” “Why are you d
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Let's await more information on the matter. If a plot to hack into the system is sustained, why should anyone not hold the guilty responsible? Remember, illegal hacking is punishable in law and everyone stands to lose if people are allowed to break into
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Santo Domingo.- The President of the Dominican Republic Wednesday asked the heads of the Armed Forces and the National Police to revise the ranks in their entities, because he noticed inequality within the same categories. Leonel Fernandez’s request come
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COTUI, Dominican Republic. The chief executive, who arrived at the site around 12:
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Santo Domingo.- Barrick Corporation president and CEO Aaron Regent arrived in the country Tuesday to tour the miners’ operations in the Pueblo Viejo (central) gold mine, in its final stage of construction. The executive invited president Leonel Fernandez
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Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez on Monday afternoon received in the National Palace former New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, to discuss various topics. According to the Presidency Website, the ex US official paid a courtesy visit to the Do
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No one likes to be profiled; to be a suspect for no good reason. Right thinking people have little tolerance for authorities of any stripe targeting someone for investigation or harassment because of their race or the car they drive or because they were
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Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez Wednesday night signed the National Development Strategy (END) 2010-2030 into Law, which establishes three pacts in the education and energy sectors and an integral tax reform. The chief executive headed the cer
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Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez will ride the Santo Domingo Metro’s (subway) “quake ready” second line next February 27, and will cost dominican taxpayers US$800.0 million dollars once concluded. Diandino Peña, head of the agency OPRET, which
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Comendador, Dominican Republic.- President Leonel Fernandez yesterday cut the ribbon for a set of works built at a cost of RD$200.4 million, including a technical school in Elías Peña province (southwest). The inaugural ceremony was held in the technical
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Haïti a perdu le nord. Jusqu’à son Nord historique. C’est à Limonade que le grand effondrement a eu lieu. Hémorragies. Aliénation. Un autre séisme du 12 janvier en stéroïde. Le roi Henri Christophe y a été victime d’une crise d’apoplexie le 15 août 1820.
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Santo Domingo.- President Leonel Fernandez affirmed last night that the adjustment policies applied in Great Britain and the rest of Europe to cut deficits and pay debts has sparked the social turmoil that stoked the “Occupy Wall Street” movement, and co
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tool goes here PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haitians gathered in makeshift churches and even a United Nations supply base Thursday to mark the second anniversary of the devastating 2010 earthquake, holding ceremonies that mixed remembrance with hope for
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Haiti ma
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In this picture taken on Jan. 9, 2012, the worker's shirt hangs at the construction site of homes for people who were displaced by the 2010 earthquake on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. As the hemisphere's poorest country marks the second anniver
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Washington, D.C. - infoZine - Scripps Howard Foundation Wire - Representatives from health institutes around the globe gathered Wednesday at the Pan American Health Organization to discuss the spread of the cholera and what measures need to be taken to c
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View full sizeDieu Nalio Chery / APA youth walks inside an earthquake-damaged cathedral in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday. As the hemisphere's poorest country marks the second anniversary of the earthquake that killed 300,000 people, rebuilding effor
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The billions of dollars in aid that flowed into Haiti after its shattering earthquake were meant to build a new nation with thriving farms, apparel factories, modern hospitals and paved roads in the countryside. Ambitious plans
About Leonel Fernandez
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Leonel Antonio Fernández Reyna (born 26 December 1953) is a Dominican politician and the current president of the Dominican Republic. He was born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, but spent his childhood and formative years in Washington Heights, New York City, New York, USA. Full Article
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