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Haiti fires PM over food riots

ireland.com "The Haitian senate today fired the impoverished country's prime minister after a week of violent food riots and ignored an emergency plan announced by president Rene Preval to slash the cost of rice.
Sixteen of 17 senators who attended a special session of the chamber voted against prime minister Jacques Edouard Alexis, who was inaugurated in June 2006 along with a coalition cabinet meant to unite the fractious Caribbean nation of nearly 9 million people"

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