Wow, it’s another weekend packed with international music events. Here are some highlights. Asha Bhosle and Sudesh Bhosle with R.D Burman’s band at DAR Constitution Hall , 1776 D. St. NW . You’ve heard Cornershop ’s “Brimful of Asha”—now hear Asha. (202) 628-4780. $37-$127.
FINE wine and a taste of Haitian cooking were among the things attracting hundreds of people to a Radlett farm today (Saturday) for a miniature festival in aid of Unicef.
Hebrew cantorial prayers, Christian choral music, Sufi poetry, the Quran sung in Arabic and Ginan devotionals — South Asian hymns of the Ismaili Muslim sect — are rarely heard in a single setting.
Kaley Shannon first saw the devastation in Haiti while watching the 5 o’clock news with her father.
The commander of a Canadian military destroyer that was dispatched to Haiti in the wake of the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake says a shortage of livable homes is the biggest hurdle facing Haitians desperate to overcome the disaster.
WENATCHEE — A group of 31 Wenatchee doctors, nurses and aides are in Haiti this weekend, offering skilled help for an impoverished people who were hit by the massive earthquake Jan. 12. Doctors in the group who offered similar help before say it’s an opportunity to help people in need in a simple, direct way. The payback, they add, is a strong reaffirmation of those things that led …
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A Spanish military helicopter crashed in rugged terrain Friday, killing the four soldiers on board, the United Nations said.
Four soldiers died in the fiery crash of a Spanish military helicopter Friday in the rugged mountains of eastern Haiti, the United Nations said.
Haiti’s top prosecutor on Friday denied reports that charges have been dropped against nine of the 10 American missionaries accused of kidnapping children after a devastating earthquake hit the nation in January.
Four Spanish soldiers were killed Friday when their helicopter crashed in a mountainous area near Haiti’s border with the Dominican Republic, the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti said.