A Caribbean Corner of Brooklyn, Fighting to Survive
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A public market on the edge of Williamsburg may be forced to close by June if the city moves forward with a plan to demolish the building and replace it with housing.
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Obie Sesay has stood on the pitches of  Old Trafford and Anfield, the hallowed homes of Manchester  United and Liverpool soccer clubs, but on the streets of  Freetown he has to beg to survive.
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For the South Plaquemines Hurricanes, a fragile post-Katrina normalcy was set on edge on Saturday when their season was threatened by another tropical storm.
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An American activist tries to save an island paradise, one lecture at a time.
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Obie Sesay has stood on the pitches of Old Trafford and Anfield, the hallowed homes of Manchester United and Liverpool soccer clubs, but on the streets of Freetown he has to beg to survive.
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Whether the temperatures in New York are in the 90s or the teens, Kevin Burke can't escape the hot seat.
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In an intense, hard-fought game that foreshadows the desperation that will be prevalent during the first two rounds of the Big East tournament, Syracuse outlasted Providence on Saturday.
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Thousands of people in Louisiana and along the Mississippi Gulf Coast are struggling to rebuild their lives. In some areas, the population and economy are growing, but in others, serious issues remain such as battered infrastructure and violent crime.
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Now that America's most-wanted cocaine trafficker is about to be extradited to the U.S., his rivals and lieutenants are struggling for command of Colombia's dominant cartel, authorities say. But whoever wins will inherit a criminal organization tottering on the edge of extinction.
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This tropical island nation that has long been an ethnic cauldron of disagreement and violence remains one today, even in the face of a national tragedy that&#39;s seen 12,500 people perish in monster tidal waves.
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By SANDY SHORE  DENVER - The streets of New York have never looked so barren.  An occasional taxi or bus motors down a boulevard as people wander aimlessly among eerily vacant buildings. Soon, black helicopters loom overhead and armed soldiers close ranks on the streets below.
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s Haiti, battered by a tropical storm, struggles to recover, workers at the Flatbush Haitian Center are raising money to help pay for clean water.
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Gay teen seeks her own identity in a city where survival is part of everyday life.
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Five years after catastrophic floods and mudslides killed thousands along Venezuela's Caribbean coast, survivors in this town still see the signs of destruction - shattered concrete walls and tall weeds growing atop streets covered in dried mud.
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Summer on Fire Island starts with a scramble to prepare houses for seasonal residents.
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A wave of tennis fever has swept Brighton Beach, the Brooklyn neighborhood that calls itself Little Russia by the Sea.
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Today the National Trust for Historic Preservation plans to sound the alarm by declaring Brooklynâs industrial waterfront one of Americaâs 11 most endangered historic places.