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Chilean government tries to stop looting

Sachin Seth
Thousand of troops are being deployed to different parts of Chile, a country recently ravaged by a massive 8.8 magnitude earthquake, to try to prevent looting and criminal acts, Al Jazeera reports.
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Your World in Focus 11: Organized relief can save lives in Haiti

Sachin Seth
Haiti. Just mentioning the country's name makes people stop and listen, and hope what they hear is, for a change, good news. But there isn't much in Haiti. People are dying preventable deaths, children are dying from broken bones. There is a lack of food, water and shelter for the Haitians.
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Afghan election will bring victory for Karzai

Sachin Seth
A few weeks ago it seemed like Afghanistan’s main candidates for president, the incumbent Hamid Karzai and his former foreign minister Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, were locked in a dead heat, running side by side toward that coveted post; to govern a country rocked by economic troubles and war.
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FARC commander extradited to U.S.

Sachin Seth
At the time of his capture Ramirez was holding 15 hostages including anti-corruption activist and former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, who had been held captive for more than six years.
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North Korea fires more missiles

Sachin Seth
North Korea has fired more missiles just hours after the UN unanimously condemned yesterday's underground nuclear test and the testing of three short-range missiles, the BBC reports.
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It’s official – we’re in a recession

Sachin Seth
It's been creeping behind Americans for many months, like a slow moving hurricane blowing winds of bankruptcy and foreclosure. On a day when the Dow Jones lost almost eight per cent, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) officially announced that the U.S. has been in a recession since December 2007, according to the New York Times.