Protests demand singer lead Haiti

Thursday, December 9, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Protesters enraged by the results of Haiti's troubled presidential election set barricades and political offices ablaze, traded blows with U.N. peacekeepers and shut down the country's lone international airport Wednesday, creating the social upheaval many have feared since the Jan. 12 earthquake.

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