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At least eight people, including two ruling party officials, suffered gunshot wounds. Just under 6 million of the Dominican Republic’s 9 million people were registered to vote. The Dominican Republic is far wealthier than Haiti, its poor neighbor on the island of Hispaniola. But many Dominicans struggle to satisfy basic needs despite a tourism and [...]

Forget about Haiti or Kazakhstan Japan, too, is experiencing a food crisis. Japan, its leading food importers say, will inevitably take a step backwards in the food it eats. But the trend poses particular challenges for an island nation that, in 2006, produced locally only 40 percent of the calories it consumed. The combination [...]

In the last year, the price of wheat has tripled, corn doubled, and rice almost doubled. As prices soared, food riots have broken out in about 20 poor countries including Yemen, Haiti, Egypt, Pakistan, Indonesia, Ivory Coast, and Mexico. In response some countries, such as India, Pakistan Egypt and Vietnam, are banning the export of [...]