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(CNN) -- Wendy Williams knows that her syndicated television show often provides fodder for jokes on E!'s "The Soup." She's more than all right with that.

Wendy Williams is hoping to attract a broad audience for her daytime talk show.

"I love it," she said, letting out a throaty laugh.

Williams is not at all bothered if people poke fun, because at least they are talking about her new show.

Long known to her radio fans for her outspoken nature and sometimes controversial interviews with celebrities, she is now navigating the switch from radio to television with "The Wendy Williams Show."

Williams' mix of celeb guests, "Hot Topics" and straight-forward advice to audience members led Entertainment Weekly's critic-at-large Ken Tucker to headline a recent blog item "Are you watching 'The Wendy Williams Show'? You should be."

The talk show host said she is settling comfortably into her new role.

"The radio was wonderful, and for 23 wonderful years, the radio served me, and I served it," said Williams, who is scheduled to be inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame this fall. "The transition for me seems very natural and very easy."

Her career has not always been so.

A self-described "Jersey girl," Williams was reportedly dumped from New York's Hot 97 radio station in 1998 after a run-in with a fellow on-air personality.

She eventually found success with a syndicated radio show, "The Wendy Williams Experience," which aired on WBLS in New York.

In 2008, she and her radio show made news after a talent booker accused Williams' husband/manager, Kevin Hunter, of sexual harassment, accusations Williams has dismissed as false in earlier interviews.

Williams has also had several high-profile feuds with celebrities, notably Whitney Houston, who have been less than enthusiastic about her dishy gossip style and what they perceived as prying questions.

In a 2003 interview with Houston, she tangled on-air with the singer about Houston's drug use in an exchange that resulted in Houston delivering an expletive-laced diatribe.

But while Williams still asks the questions many fans want to know (and retains her catchphrase, "How you doin'?"), she said, her television show is different.

"It's more polished," she said. "Four hours on the radio versus one hour on TV -- that means you that you have to have five words instead of 35 words to explain what you are talking about."

That doesn't stop her from sharing everything from her love of wigs to information about her breast implants -- without which, she recently told viewers, she was "naturally a long, floppy A [cup]."

Rob Dauber, executive producer of the show, said daytime television needs Williams' bluntness.

"Wendy Williams has a really unique, honest personality who audiences really relate to," he said. "The daytime viewer, I think, is hungry for a personality who is not afraid to speak the truth, to tell her own truth and to kind of let it all hang out.

"Wendy's not hiding anything from anybody about herself, and she's not afraid to show all of her faults."

During a recent phone interview, Williams, mother of a 9-year old boy, chatted easily while trying to get clothes in the washing machine and dinner on the table for her family.

"After the show, it's real life," she said.

"Last night was parent night at school, and I forgot to include the box of tissues, pens that erase and a few other things," Williams said. "No one said anything about it, but I went back in his folder and looked and immediately started sweating and feeling inadequate."

She thinks daytime television fans can relate to her, because ultimately she is a fan, too. She rattles off countless shows she enjoys including "Ellen," "Oprah," "Judge Judy" and "Dr. Oz."

Williams said she aspires to attract higher-profile guests on her talk show and hopes the audience will give her time to find her stride.

"I know that the show is messy, because I'm messy," she said. "But I have a staff of very talented people working with me."

She said she is grateful for her radio audience but hopes to branch out to more fans via television -- including men.

She said she often observes them at her show, clearly annoyed that they have been dragged there by women.

"I see their faces dragging long when I first come out, and somewhere around the end of 'Hot Topics,' they are roaring with laughter," she said. "At the end of the day, I just want people to laugh and have a good time."

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(CNN) -- For a good part of her career, Martina McBride's success has largely been due to relying on Nashville songwriters and approaching arrangements in a pop-country fashion.

While hits like "Wild Angels," "A Broken Wing" and "Wrong Again" solidified her position as country radio royalty, McBride's shaking things up these days. She's ditched both of those early crutches and now is exploring writing on her own and injecting a more roots-oriented sound into her instrumentation.

Such is the case with "Eleven," McBride's 11th studio album, which drops today. These days, she's working with new management, has a new label in Republic Nashville and wrote six of the 11 songs that appear on her latest project

As the 45-year-old singer soldiers on, what about this moment inspired change, and how's her own songwriting coming along? CNN spoke with McBride recently as she was prepping for a concert in Minot, North Dakota.

CNN: "Eleven" comes with a lot of professional changes. Why is this?

Martina McBride: You know, sometimes it's just time to shake things up a little bit. When you've been at a certain place and management for 18 years, I just felt like I really need someone around me with some fresh ideas, some new passion and energy.

CNN: As female country musicians age these days, are there pressures to stay youthful? How does one age gracefully in Nashville?

McBride: Oh, I think the same way you age gracefully anywhere else. Females have always had more of a focus on the way they look. No matter what business your in, if you're in the public eye -- whether you're an actor or a rock musician or even head of a corporation, it's always been that way. You just try ... I don't know, I try not to focus on it. I'm still the same voice I had before, and I still have a lot to say.

CNN: "Eleven" was largely written by you -- something you've taken on recently. What's your writing process like?

McBride: It's different every time. Sometimes I'll have an idea or a title. ... I'm still growing as a writer.

One thing I think I bring to the table is having a certain type of lyric, in that I want the song to feel honest and real. I don't do it 365 days a year, so I'm fresh. I also don't know a lot of the rules, which is probably a good thing. For me, it's still about discovery. I'm still in the stage of writing that I'm discovering, getting confidence as a writer and that I do have some talent for it. It's a good discovery at this stage of the game.

CNN: And sometimes songwriters who start out at 20, by 30 they feel like they're all tapped out.

McBride: I grew up admiring Linda Ronstadt, Pat Benatar, Reba (McEntire). I didn't really grow up enamored only with singer-songwriters.

When I moved to Nashville, it wasn't a big deal for me just to find songs by great writers and make them my own. But what I really found with this record was that it's so nice to not have to wait for someone to write something. Obviously, I love every record I've made, but I feel like this record is more authentic to me. I don't know. It's different than just singing a song after it's already been written. I'm excited about that.

CNN: On "Eleven" the first single's called "Teenage Daughters," which is about the trouble they can cause. Did you give your parents any heart attacks growing up?

McBride: Oh, oh, yeah. So far, my daughter is much better than me. I grew up on a farm in really rural Kansas, where there was nothing to do. Out of boredom, the activities we found to do, weren't exactly the best for my parents to go through. But I think the song's about -- the teenage experience and wanting that independence and rebelling against the rule is so common, no matter where you are in the world.

CNN: It seems harder these days to be a teenager.

McBride: It's different. They have a lot of peer pressure. We all did, but they have a cavalier attitude about things. They don't have the same caution about certain things and are more like "whatever, it's not that big a deal."

CNN: You were associated with the pop-country movement of the '90s, but listening to "Eleven" and looking at your recent output, it doesn't seem like you're interested in that anymore.

McBride: It's interesting that you say that. I don't know if I ever stood out to make a particular type of record. Before, I was so dependent on the songs I found and the songs that came in. I was drawn to certain types of songs but I didn't have the luxury of waiting around for years and years. I had a vision of "Eleven" being more organic, more retro, like a '70s rock record. It is less pop.

CNN: On the Grammys, you performed a tribute to Aretha Franklin with Christina Aguilera, Florence Welch, Jennifer Hudson and Yolanda Adams. Are there aspects of pop and rock these days you find intriguing?

McBride: I love Train's new record. And I love One Republic's record. My daughter's really into the Avett Brothers and Mumford & Sons, so I've been listening to them recently. That's a whole new type of thing; I don't know what you'd call that.

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answer: You know, sometimes it's just time to shake things up a little bit. When you've been at a certain place and management for 18 years, I just felt like I really need someone around me with some fresh ideas, some new passion and energy.

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Miami, Florida (CNN) -- Romel Joseph calls it his second life.

"When I came here, I said I was 99.9 percent dead, and I am leaving here 85 percent alive," he said.

The blind violinist who was trapped for 18 hours after Haiti's earthquake in January was released from a Miami, Florida, hospital over the weekend after what doctors say is an amazing recovery.

The powerful January 12 quake leveled his five-story music school in Port-au-Prince, and he was pinned beneath the debris.

His friends were able to remove him from the rubble of the New Victorian School, and he was airlifted out of Port-au-Prince by the American Embassy to Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami.

Joseph suffered severe injuries, including a fractured hand and two crushed legs.

To get through the painful ordeal, Joseph prayed and let his mind drift to thoughts of every concerto he had ever played.

"I didn't think I would be alive ... I thought my time was up," Joseph said.  "But my time is not up yet, so God will provide and show me how to fulfill my dream."

Joseph plans to return to Haiti at the end of the month to start rebuilding the New Victorian School, where he is the director.

He hopes to have a makeshift structure up within two weeks so children can begin attending the dual purpose music and academic school by mid-April.

The temporary structure is estimated to cost $35,000. It will take another two to three years to build a permanent school, one that Joseph said will be earthquake-proof.

During Joseph's last physical therapy session, the Juilliard-trained violinist played classical numbers and hymns as part of his treatment.

To the delight of patients around him, Joseph stuck chord after chord on the violin stretching and strengthening his hand that was badly fractured.

"I couldn't put my fingers on the strings at first and gradually I was able to play little one or two notes and now I can play, not great but it's a blessing," Joseph said modestly.

Doctors had initially feared that he might never play violin again.

The violin wasn't the only instrument helping Joseph repair his shattered hand during the 18 hours of physical therapy he received each week.

A keyboard donated by musician Steve Wonder has helped Joseph regain the strength in his fingers.

Wonder, who is also blind, had heard Joseph's story on CNN and said he was moved to act.

"What better way to express God's love than to give something that is special to you to someone else who is in need," Wonder said.  "So that's why I did what I did."

Joseph hopes to return playing professionally by October, when he would like to have a debut concert with Wonder.

"I would like to play with him and thank him in person for helping in my recovery."

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Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic (CNN) -- A man who acted as a legal adviser to the American missionaries arrested on child kidnapping charges in Haiti is himself facing allegations of human trafficking in El Salvador and human smuggling charges in the United States.

An international arrest warrant was issued Saturday for the legal adviser on sex-trafficking charges. Salvadoran police raided a home in May that turned up passports and an ID card in the names of both Jorge Torres Puello and his alias, Jorge Torres Orellana.

Each of the documents bore photos of the same man. His wife was arrested in that raid and charged with sex trafficking, and her trial is pending.

In a phone interview with CNN on Sunday, Jorge Torres Puello acknowledged he is the same man wanted by Salvadoran authorities. He denied the charges against him.

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According to the warrant, Torres Puello is accused of running an international sex trafficking ring that lured women and girls from the Caribbean and Central America into prostitution with offers of modeling jobs. A wanted poster released by Interpol, the international police organization, includes crimes against children as one of the offenses that Torres Puello is being sought for.

"I never did anything," Torres Puello said Sunday. "I started helping a Dominican pastor helping a lot of people who were stranded to get back to their home countries. We once gave some Nicaraguan and Costa Rican women some money to return home and instead they went to the authorities and put in a complaint against us. I never had anybody against their will."

Torres Puello also denied Salvadoran allegations that he ran a brothel out of his home with wife Ana Josefa Ramirez Orellana, who remains jailed pending trial, according to Salvadoran police.

"I want to clear the Salvador matter up and I am hiring a lawyer to do that," he said. "I know I am innocent and I want to clear my past."

His mother, Soledad Puello, told CNN Sunday that she first heard of the Salvadoran accusations when her son called to tell her of his wife's arrest. She said her son told her he had known about the sex ring, but wasn't involved in it.

Soledad Puello led CNN to believe that her son remained in the Dominican Republic, but she would not say where.

Torres Puello, who said he was born in Yonkers, New York, in 1977 to a Dominican mother and a Puerto Rican father, also said he is wanted in the United States on charges of smuggling people between Canada and the United States, which he also denied.

He said he spent 18 months in a Canadian jail pending what he called an unsuccessful extradition request by U.S. authorities.

He has served jail time in the United States before, he said -- one year in 1998 for handling funds related to a drug-trafficking operation, and was jailed again briefly between late 2001 and January 2002 for violating parole. He denied the drug charge.

Both his mother and Torres Puello say he served briefly in the U.S. Army in a military intelligence unit, and Torres Puello said he also worked undercover with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and the Department of Homeland Security.

A family photo shows Torres Puello in a military uniform alongside a truck with the words "U.S. Military" printed across the bumper.

CNN was unable to reach government officials to confirm his claims of working with the military, the DEA and Homeland Security.

Torres Puello's statements regarding the charges against him could not be immediately verified. But on Sunday, four men showed up at his mother's home while CNN reporters were present.

The men said they were from the U.S. Embassy and looking for Torres Puello. One of the men told Soledad Puello that her son has three outstanding arrest warrants -- two in the United States and one in El Salvador. He did not specify the charges. One of the men was wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with the words "U.S. Marshals Service, Fugitive Task Force."

Torres Puello said he made contact with the Central Valley Church in Idaho and their family representatives and offered to provide legal assistance to the American missionaries shortly after they were jailed in January after trying to cross the Dominican border carrying 33 children without proper documentation.

Family representatives in Idaho did not give the exact date when they were contacted by Puello but said it was "shortly after their arrest".

Hiram Sasser, attorney with Liberty Legal of Plano, Texas, sought to distance his client, Jim Allen, from Torres Puello.

He stated in an e-mail to CNN: "No attorney has ever been authorized to represent Jim Allen other than our team, which includes Mr. Lissade. The only spokesperson for the Allen family has been me and our team."

Haitian attorney Louis Gary Lissade showed up at court in Port-au-Prince on February 9 to represent Allen, one of the 10 Americans.

Another of Allen's U.S. defense team, Reginald Brown, said he, Sasser and other U.S. attorneys were only hired to represent Allen on Super Bowl Sunday -- nine days after the Americans were arrested.

In a February 9 letter from Brown to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Brown stated: "It's our understanding from press reports ... that all 10 Americans were represented by a single Haitian attorney. ... We're not able to confirm if that counsel was independently chosen by Jim [Allen]."

Until February 7, Torres Puello said he had been appointed legal adviser to all 10 Americans and Haitian attorney Edwin Coq said he was handling the case in Port-au-Prince on behalf of all 10. Coq, who was the attorney Brown referred to in his letter to Clinton, says he resigned on February 6 over a dispute about payments. Torres Puello said he had fired Coq.

Torres Puello turned up at court Monday, February 8, saying he was there to organize legal representation for all 10 Americans after Coq left the case.

Torres Puello said he read about the case and decided to offer his services for free. However, Torres Puello's stepfather, Franco Ceminara, said the arrested Americans' families had already wired more than $40,000 to his stepson. A receipt provided by Torres Puello's family to CNN showed the Haitian lawyers are charging $40,000 to represent the Americans. The receipt, for an advance payment of $10,000, was signed by Aviol Fleurant, one of the Americans' Port-au-Prince-based defense team that also includes Lissade.

Family and church representatives in Idaho, where most of the 10 Americans are from, told CNN earlier in the week that they had not paid money to the man they know as Jorge Puello.

Regarding the American missionaries, Torres Puello said: "Prior to this earthquake I never knew those people [the Americans]. When I read about their case I just decided to help them. I'm in the real estate business and was working with a team of lawyers."

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text: on

text: child

text: kidnapping

text: charges

text: in

text: Haiti

text: is

text: himself

text: facing

text: allegations

text: of

text: human

text: trafficking

text: in

text: El

text: Salvador

text: and

text: human

text: smuggling

text: charges

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: An

text: international

text: arrest

text: warrant

text: was

text: issued

text: Saturday

text: for

text: the

text: legal

text: adviser

text: on

text: sex

text: trafficking

text: charges

text: Salvadoran

text: police

text: raided

text: a

text: home

text: in

text: May

text: that

text: turned

text: up

text: passports

text: and

text: an

text: ID

text: card

text: in

text: the

text: names

text: of

text: both

text: Jorge

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: and

text: his

text: alias

text: Jorge

text: Torres

text: Orellana

text: Each

text: of

text: the

text: documents

text: bore

text: photos

text: of

text: the

text: same

text: man

text: His

text: wife

text: was

text: arrested

text: in

text: that

text: raid

text: and

text: charged

text: with

text: sex

text: trafficking

text: and

text: her

text: trial

text: is

text: pending

text: In

text: a

text: phone

text: interview

text: with

text: CNN

text: on

text: Sunday

text: Jorge

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: acknowledged

text: he

text: is

text: the

text: same

text: man

text: wanted

text: by

text: Salvadoran

text: authorities

text: He

text: denied

text: the

text: charges

text: against

text: him

text: Full

text: coverage

text: of

text: the

text: earthquake

text: aftermath

text: in

text: Haiti

text: According

text: to

text: the

text: warrant

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: is

text: accused

text: of

text: running

text: an

text: international

text: sex

text: trafficking

text: ring

text: that

text: lured

text: women

text: and

text: girls

text: from

text: the

text: Caribbean

text: and

text: Central

text: America

text: into

text: prostitution

text: with

text: offers

text: of

text: modeling

text: jobs

text: A

text: wanted

text: poster

text: released

text: by

text: Interpol

text: the

text: international

text: police

text: organization

text: includes

text: crimes

text: against

text: children

text: as

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: offenses

text: that

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: is

text: being

text: sought

text: for

text: I

text: never

text: did

text: anything

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: said

text: Sunday

text: I

text: started

text: helping

text: a

text: Dominican

text: pastor

text: helping

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: people

text: who

text: were

text: stranded

text: to

text: get

text: back

text: to

text: their

text: home

text: countries

text: We

text: once

text: gave

text: some

text: Nicaraguan

text: and

text: Costa

text: Rican

text: women

text: some

text: money

text: to

text: return

text: home

text: and

text: instead

text: they

text: went

text: to

text: the

text: authorities

text: and

text: put

text: in

text: a

text: complaint

text: against

text: us

text: I

text: never

text: had

text: anybody

text: against

text: their

text: will

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: also

text: denied

text: Salvadoran

text: allegations

text: that

text: he

text: ran

text: a

text: brothel

text: out

text: of

text: his

text: home

text: with

text: wife

text: Ana

text: Josefa

text: Ramirez

text: Orellana

text: who

text: remains

text: jailed

text: pending

text: trial

text: according

text: to

text: Salvadoran

text: police

text: I

text: want

text: to

text: clear

text: the

text: Salvador

text: matter

text: up

text: and

text: I

text: am

text: hiring

text: a

text: lawyer

text: to

text: do

text: that

text: he

text: said

text: I

text: know

text: I

text: am

text: innocent

text: and

text: I

text: want

text: to

text: clear

text: my

text: past

text: His

text: mother

text: Soledad

text: Puello

text: told

text: CNN

text: Sunday

text: that

text: she

text: first

text: heard

text: of

text: the

text: Salvadoran

text: accusations

text: when

text: her

text: son

text: called

text: to

text: tell

text: her

text: of

text: his

text: wife

text: 's

text: arrest

text: She

text: said

text: her

text: son

text: told

text: her

text: he

text: had

text: known

text: about

text: the

text: sex

text: ring

text: but

text: was

text: n't

text: involved

text: in

text: it

text: Soledad

text: Puello

text: led

text: CNN

text: to

text: believe

text: that

text: her

text: son

text: remained

text: in

text: the

text: Dominican

text: Republic

text: but

text: she

text: would

text: not

text: say

text: where

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: who

text: said

text: he

text: was

text: born

text: in

text: Yonkers

text: New

text: York

text: in

text: to

text: a

text: Dominican

text: mother

text: and

text: a

text: Puerto

text: Rican

text: father

text: also

text: said

text: he

text: is

text: wanted

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: on

text: charges

text: of

text: smuggling

text: people

text: between

text: Canada

text: and

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: which

text: he

text: also

text: denied

text: He

text: said

text: he

text: spent

text: months

text: in

text: a

text: Canadian

text: jail

text: pending

text: what

text: he

text: called

text: an

text: unsuccessful

text: extradition

text: request

text: by

text: U.S.

text: authorities

text: He

text: has

text: served

text: jail

text: time

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: before

text: he

text: said

text: one

text: year

text: in

text: for

text: handling

text: funds

text: related

text: to

text: a

text: drug

text: trafficking

text: operation

text: and

text: was

text: jailed

text: again

text: briefly

text: between

text: late

text: and

text: January

text: for

text: violating

text: parole

text: He

text: denied

text: the

text: drug

text: charge

text: Both

text: his

text: mother

text: and

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: say

text: he

text: served

text: briefly

text: in

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Army

text: in

text: a

text: military

text: intelligence

text: unit

text: and

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: said

text: he

text: also

text: worked

text: undercover

text: with

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Drug

text: Enforcement

text: Administration

text: and

text: the

text: Department

text: of

text: Homeland

text: Security

text: A

text: family

text: photo

text: shows

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: in

text: a

text: military

text: uniform

text: alongside

text: a

text: truck

text: with

text: the

text: words

text: U.S.

text: Military

text: printed

text: across

text: the

text: bumper

text: CNN

text: was

text: unable

text: to

text: reach

text: government

text: officials

text: to

text: confirm

text: his

text: claims

text: of

text: working

text: with

text: the

text: military

text: the

text: DEA

text: and

text: Homeland

text: Security

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: 's

text: statements

text: regarding

text: the

text: charges

text: against

text: him

text: could

text: not

text: be

text: immediately

text: verified

text: But

text: on

text: Sunday

text: four

text: men

text: showed

text: up

text: at

text: his

text: mother

text: 's

text: home

text: while

text: CNN

text: reporters

text: were

text: present

text: The

text: men

text: said

text: they

text: were

text: from

text: the

text: U.S.

text: Embassy

text: and

text: looking

text: for

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: One

text: of

text: the

text: men

text: told

text: Soledad

text: Puello

text: that

text: her

text: son

text: has

text: three

text: outstanding

text: arrest

text: warrants

text: two

text: in

text: the

text: United

text: States

text: and

text: one

text: in

text: El

text: Salvador

text: He

text: did

text: not

text: specify

text: the

text: charges

text: One

text: of

text: the

text: men

text: was

text: wearing

text: a

text: T

text: shirt

text: emblazoned

text: with

text: the

text: words

text: U.S.

text: Marshals

text: Service

text: Fugitive

text: Task

text: Force

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: said

text: he

text: made

text: contact

text: with

text: the

text: Central

text: Valley

text: Church

text: in

text: Idaho

text: and

text: their

text: family

text: representatives

text: and

text: offered

text: to

text: provide

text: legal

text: assistance

text: to

text: the

text: American

text: missionaries

text: shortly

text: after

text: they

text: were

text: jailed

text: in

text: January

text: after

text: trying

text: to

text: cross

text: the

text: Dominican

text: border

text: carrying

text: children

text: without

text: proper

text: documentation

text: Family

text: representatives

text: in

text: Idaho

text: did

text: not

text: give

text: the

text: exact

text: date

text: when

text: they

text: were

text: contacted

text: by

text: Puello

text: but

text: said

text: it

text: was

text: shortly

text: after

text: their

text: arrest

text: Hiram

text: Sasser

text: attorney

text: with

text: Liberty

text: Legal

text: of

text: Plano

text: Texas

text: sought

text: to

text: distance

text: his

text: client

text: Jim

text: Allen

text: from

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: He

text: stated

text: in

text: an

text: e

text: mail

text: to

text: CNN

text: No

text: attorney

text: has

text: ever

text: been

text: authorized

text: to

text: represent

text: Jim

text: Allen

text: other

text: than

text: our

text: team

text: which

text: includes

text: Mr.

text: Lissade

text: The

text: only

text: spokesperson

text: for

text: the

text: Allen

text: family

text: has

text: been

text: me

text: and

text: our

text: team

text: Haitian

text: attorney

text: Louis

text: Gary

text: Lissade

text: showed

text: up

text: at

text: court

text: in

text: Port

text: au

text: Prince

text: on

text: February

text: to

text: represent

text: Allen

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: Americans

text: Another

text: of

text: Allen

text: 's

text: U.S.

text: defense

text: team

text: Reginald

text: Brown

text: said

text: he

text: Sasser

text: and

text: other

text: U.S.

text: attorneys

text: were

text: only

text: hired

text: to

text: represent

text: Allen

text: on

text: Super

text: Bowl

text: Sunday

text: nine

text: days

text: after

text: the

text: Americans

text: were

text: arrested

text: In

text: a

text: February

text: letter

text: from

text: Brown

text: to

text: Secretary

text: of

text: State

text: Hillary

text: Clinton

text: Brown

text: stated

text: It

text: 's

text: our

text: understanding

text: from

text: press

text: reports

text: that

text: all

text: Americans

text: were

text: represented

text: by

text: a

text: single

text: Haitian

text: attorney

text: We

text: 're

text: not

text: able

text: to

text: confirm

text: if

text: that

text: counsel

text: was

text: independently

text: chosen

text: by

text: Jim

text: Allen

text: Until

text: February

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: said

text: he

text: had

text: been

text: appointed

text: legal

text: adviser

text: to

text: all

text: Americans

text: and

text: Haitian

text: attorney

text: Edwin

text: Coq

text: said

text: he

text: was

text: handling

text: the

text: case

text: in

text: Port

text: au

text: Prince

text: on

text: behalf

text: of

text: all

text: Coq

text: who

text: was

text: the

text: attorney

text: Brown

text: referred

text: to

text: in

text: his

text: letter

text: to

text: Clinton

text: says

text: he

text: resigned

text: on

text: February

text: over

text: a

text: dispute

text: about

text: payments

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: said

text: he

text: had

text: fired

text: Coq

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: turned

text: up

text: at

text: court

text: Monday

text: February

text: saying

text: he

text: was

text: there

text: to

text: organize

text: legal

text: representation

text: for

text: all

text: Americans

text: after

text: Coq

text: left

text: the

text: case

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: said

text: he

text: read

text: about

text: the

text: case

text: and

text: decided

text: to

text: offer

text: his

text: services

text: for

text: free

text: However

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: 's

text: stepfather

text: Franco

text: Ceminara

text: said

text: the

text: arrested

text: Americans

text: families

text: had

text: already

text: wired

text: more

text: than

text: to

text: his

text: stepson

text: A

text: receipt

text: provided

text: by

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: 's

text: family

text: to

text: CNN

text: showed

text: the

text: Haitian

text: lawyers

text: are

text: charging

text: to

text: represent

text: the

text: Americans

text: The

text: receipt

text: for

text: an

text: advance

text: payment

text: of

text: was

text: signed

text: by

text: Aviol

text: Fleurant

text: one

text: of

text: the

text: Americans

text: Port

text: au

text: Prince

text: based

text: defense

text: team

text: that

text: also

text: includes

text: Lissade

text: Family

text: and

text: church

text: representatives

text: in

text: Idaho

text: where

text: most

text: of

text: the

text: Americans

text: are

text: from

text: told

text: CNN

text: earlier

text: in

text: the

text: week

text: that

text: they

text: had

text: not

text: paid

text: money

text: to

text: the

text: man

text: they

text: know

text: as

text: Jorge

text: Puello

text: Regarding

text: the

text: American

text: missionaries

text: Torres

text: Puello

text: said

text: Prior

text: to

text: this

text: earthquake

text: I

text: never

text: knew

text: those

text: people

text: the

text: Americans

text: When

text: I

text: read

text: about

text: their

text: case

text: I

text: just

text: decided

text: to

text: help

text: them

text: I

text: 'm

text: in

text: the

text: real

text: estate

text: business

text: and

text: was

text: working

text: with

text: a

text: team

text: of

text: lawyers

question: Who faces allegations of human trafficking?

answer: Jorge Torres Puello

text: Jorge Torres Puello

question: Who is wanted by Salvadoran authorities?

answer: Jorge Torres Puello

text: Jorge Torres Puello

question: What legal action was taken ?

answer: issued

text: issued

question: Who is acting as legal adviser?

answer: Jorge Torres Puello

text: Jorge Torres Puello

question: What authorities want him ?

answer: Salvadoran

text: Salvadoran

question: Who is acting as legal advisor to Americans?

answer: Jorge Torres Puello

text: Jorge Torres Puello

question: What country wants to press human trafficking charges?

answer: El Salvador

text: El Salvador

question: Who was charged ?

answer: Ana Josefa Ramirez Orellana,

text: Ana Josefa Ramirez Orellana,


text:
New Zealand maxi Alfa Romeo eased to victory in the 65th annual Sydney to Hobart ocean yacht race on Monday.

Skippered by Neville Crichton, Alfa Romeo crossed the finish of the 628-mile race ahead of favorite Australian maxi Wild Oats XI.

Alfa Romeo had led since they left Sydney Harbor on Saturday and was not threatened during its two days, nine hours and two minutes at sea.

Australian maxi Wild Oats XI finished 16 nautical miles behind in second place with British yacht ICAP Leopard a further 24 miles behind in third.

Crichton admitted he was taken aback by the large crowd which had gathered at the dockside to welcome his team home before he paid tribute to his crew.

"We didn't expect to see anything like this crowd. We're certainly honored," he told the event's official Web site wwwrolexsydneyhobart.com.

"I'd like to thank the 21 guys in my crew. We didn't have any problems and I don't think there was any time in the race when we were passed."

Crichton continued: "There were occasions when we had to take a gamble and hope it paid off. We were very busy the whole race. There were occasions when there was a lot of breeze, and occasions when we drifted, so it made the race much more interesting.

"I don't think there was any part of the race that counted any more or less. We all had periods we were parked up. I think it was the advantage of making the least amount of mistakes of anybody that won us the race."

Wild Oats, who set the race record in 2005, was bidding for a fifth win, but trailed Alfa Romeo out of Sydney Harbor in the traditional Boxing Day start and was never able to get on terms with the leader.

text: New

text: Zealand

text: maxi

text: Alfa

text: Romeo

text: eased

text: to

text: victory

text: in

text: the

text: annual

text: Sydney

text: to

text: Hobart

text: ocean

text: yacht

text: race

text: on

text: Monday

text: Skippered

text: by

text: Neville

text: Crichton

text: Alfa

text: Romeo

text: crossed

text: the

text: finish

text: of

text: the

text: race

text: ahead

text: of

text: favorite

text: Australian

text: maxi

text: Wild

text: Oats

text: XI

text: Alfa

text: Romeo

text: had

text: led

text: since

text: they

text: left

text: Sydney

text: Harbor

text: on

text: Saturday

text: and

text: was

text: not

text: threatened

text: during

text: its

text: two

text: days

text: nine

text: hours

text: and

text: two

text: minutes

text: at

text: sea

text: Australian

text: maxi

text: Wild

text: Oats

text: XI

text: finished

text: nautical

text: miles

text: behind

text: in

text: second

text: place

text: with

text: British

text: yacht

text: ICAP

text: Leopard

text: a

text: further

text: miles

text: behind

text: in

text: third

text: Crichton

text: admitted

text: he

text: was

text: taken

text: aback

text: by

text: the

text: large

text: crowd

text: which

text: had

text: gathered

text: at

text: the

text: dockside

text: to

text: welcome

text: his

text: team

text: home

text: before

text: he

text: paid

text: tribute

text: to

text: his

text: crew

text: We

text: did

text: n't

text: expect

text: to

text: see

text: anything

text: like

text: this

text: crowd

text: We

text: 're

text: certainly

text: honored

text: he

text: told

text: the

text: event

text: 's

text: official

text: Web

text: site

text: wwwrolexsydneyhobart.com

text: I

text: 'd

text: like

text: to

text: thank

text: the

text: guys

text: in

text: my

text: crew

text: We

text: did

text: n't

text: have

text: any

text: problems

text: and

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: think

text: there

text: was

text: any

text: time

text: in

text: the

text: race

text: when

text: we

text: were

text: passed

text: Crichton

text: continued

text: There

text: were

text: occasions

text: when

text: we

text: had

text: to

text: take

text: a

text: gamble

text: and

text: hope

text: it

text: paid

text: off

text: We

text: were

text: very

text: busy

text: the

text: whole

text: race

text: There

text: were

text: occasions

text: when

text: there

text: was

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: breeze

text: and

text: occasions

text: when

text: we

text: drifted

text: so

text: it

text: made

text: the

text: race

text: much

text: more

text: interesting

text: I

text: do

text: n't

text: think

text: there

text: was

text: any

text: part

text: of

text: the

text: race

text: that

text: counted

text: any

text: more

text: or

text: less

text: We

text: all

text: had

text: periods

text: we

text: were

text: parked

text: up

text: I

text: think

text: it

text: was

text: the

text: advantage

text: of

text: making

text: the

text: least

text: amount

text: of

text: mistakes

text: of

text: anybody

text: that

text: won

text: us

text: the

text: race

text: Wild

text: Oats

text: who

text: set

text: the

text: race

text: record

text: in

text: was

text: bidding

text: for

text: a

text: fifth

text: win

text: but

text: trailed

text: Alfa

text: Romeo

text: out

text: of

text: Sydney

text: Harbor

text: in

text: the

text: traditional

text: Boxing

text: Day

text: start

text: and

text: was

text: never

text: able

text: to

text: get

text: on

text: terms

text: with

text: the

text: leader

question: what country did alfa romeo eased to victory

answer: New Zealand

text: New Zealand

question: From where is Alfa Romeo?

answer: New Zealand

text: New Zealand

question: What boat won the yacht race ?

answer: Alfa Romeo

text: Alfa Romeo

question: who skippered by neville crichton

answer: Alfa Romeo

text: Alfa Romeo

question: What is the name of the skipper?

answer: Neville Crichton,

text: Neville Crichton,

question: How many years has the Sydney to Hobart ocean yacht race taken place?

answer: 65th

question: Who skippered the winning yacht ?

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(CNN)  -- U.S. and NATO forces are engaged in a futile war against the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, Canada's prime minister said.

Canadian leader Stephen Harper says he backs President Obama's "renewed commitment to Afghanistan."

"We are not going to ever defeat the insurgency," Stephen Harper told CNN's Fareed Zakaria in an interview that aired Sunday. "Afghanistan has probably had -- my reading of Afghanistan history -- it's probably had an insurgency forever, of some kind."

Harper's blunt assessment comes as nearly 2,800 Canadian forces are fighting in Afghanistan. The country's parliament has voted to pull them out by 2011.

Harper spoke with Zakaria last week after a visit by President Obama, who made Canada his first foreign trip since taking office in January. Obama has said Afghanistan is the central front to the U.S.-led war on terror.

The Pentagon is in the process of sending an additional 17,000 troops to Afghanistan, bringing the total there to 55,000.

Harper told CNN that he supports Obama's "renewed commitment to Afghanistan" but said he would not recommit any more Canadian troops until there is a clear plan for leaving Afghanistan.

"What has to happen in Afghanistan is, we have to have an Afghan government that is capable of managing that insurgency and improving its own governance," Harper said.

"If President Obama wants anybody to do more, I would ask very hard questions about what is the strategy for success and for an eventual departure."

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(CNN) -- The father of a 6-year-old girl, one of four relatives who police say were killed by another family member on Thanksgiving Day, said it was "unbelievable" how a tip from a television viewer brought about the arrest of the suspect.

"Before the show even came on, Paul was being surrounded by the people behind me," Jim Sitton said Tuesday in Jupiter, Florida, standing in front of police officers.

Paul M. Merhige is accused of fatally shooting his twin sisters, Sitton's 6-year-old daughter Makayla -- Merhige's cousin -- and a 79-year-old aunt at a family home in Jupiter, Florida, on November 26.

One of his sisters was pregnant. Police said Merhige also wounded two other family members during the shooting rampage.

A viewer of the television show "America's Most Wanted" recognized descriptions of Merhige and his car and called police. Officers responded to the tip late Saturday, surrounding a small motel in the Florida Keys and taking Merhige into custody.

Sitton said the tip came in from a promotional announcement before the show aired, not the show itself. The couple at the hotel who called police went outside and lifted a tarp to look at Merhige's license plate and verify it was the vehicle sought, he said.

"So many people don't make the call, and they made the call," Sitton said. "The monster's in a cage and now we can get out of protective mode and begin the process of healing."

He said he's not "jumping for joy" at the arrest, "because our daughter's room is still empty. There's dresses and shoes in there that will never be worn again."

While the arrest won't bring his daughter back, he said, "this is the first step toward justice. ... If there's anyone that deserves the death penalty, it would be someone who would go and execute my 6-year-old daughter while she is sleeping in her bed."

Merhige made a first appearance in court on Sunday. He is charged with four counts of premeditated murder and attempted first-degree murder. His next court appearance is February 1. He is being held without bond at the Palm Beach County jail.

"America's Most Wanted" host John Walsh told reporters he got involved in the case after his wife called him and told him she had been seeing news reports on it, and pushed him to air information on the suspect, who had been at large since Thanksgiving.

"I really believed that the public would make the difference," said Walsh, who met with the Sittons on Tuesday, according to the AMW Web site.

He said Sitton's home had been under police protection and Sitton had patrolled his home nights with a shotgun since the incident.

Walsh also said Merhige deserves the death penalty. "He killed four people, including a pregnant woman. He needs to pay."

He cautioned the media to be gentle with the Sittons, saying, "these are decent, wonderful, good people that are getting ready to go through hell."

Walsh has been involved in assisting crime victims since his 6-year-old son, Adam, was abducted and killed in 1981.

According to its Web site, "America's Most Wanted" has helped find more than 1,050 fugitives and bring home more than 50 missing children in its 22 years on the air.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Coalition troops on Monday formally handed over security control of Iraq's Anbar province -- once the hub of the country's Sunni insurgency, to Iraqis on Monday.

A U.S. soldier on patrol in Ramadi's market earlier this year. U.S. troops will remain in the province to support Iraqi forces.

President George W. Bush described the transfer as a major victory against al-Qaeda extremists who once held sway in the area.

"Today, Anbar is no longer lost to al Qaeda -- it is al Qaeda that lost Anbar," he said in a statement.

Once dominated by Sunni insurgents, Anbar has been the scene of many attacks on U.S.-led troops in Iraq.

Now a bastion of tribal opposition, it is also the scene of an internal Sunni political struggle between the Iraqi Islamic Party, one of Iraq's main Sunni parties, and the Awakening movement, the first anti-al Qaeda in Iraq movement established in the country.

More than 25,000 U.S. troops serve in the sprawling Anbar province west of Baghdad; most of them Marines. They will remain for the time being but will shift their mission to supporting Iraqi forces, when needed

The transfer is a "major progress" for all of Iraq, said Brigadier Gen. David Perkins, the spokesman for the Multi-National Force in Iraq.

The transfer ceremony took place in Ramadi, the capital of the western province, and was attended by Iraqi officials and U.S. military brass.  Watch U.S., Iraqi officials perform transfer Â»

"We are all well aware of what the security situation was in Anbar even a year ago," Perkins said. "And the fact that that has been able to be turned around, that the Iraqi citizens that live there want to stand up on their own, [that] they want to take control of the province on their own ... it's a major progress not only for Anbar, but for all of Iraq."

Anbar is the 11th of Iraq's 18 provinces to revert to local security control, but is the first Sunni-dominated one.

The move comes amid a big drop in violence in Iraq and calls from Iraqis for the United States to come up with a troop withdrawal timetable.

The other provinces that have transitioned to Iraqi security control are Duhuk, Irbil and Sulaimaniya in the Kurdish region, and Karbala, Najaf, Qadisiya, Muthanna, Thiqar, Basra, and Maysan in the Shiite south.

CNN's Jomana Karadsheh and Arwa Damon in Baghdad contributed to this report.

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NEW YORK (CNN)  -- An explosion outside a Starbucks on the Upper East Side of Manhattan sent frightened people running into the street early Monday.

Police investigate an explosion in a Manhattan Upper East Side neighborhood.

The explosion blew out the windows of a Starbucks coffeehouse at East 92nd Street and Third Avenue at 3:25 a.m., according to New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly.

A "low-order improvised explosive device" exploded after being left on a wooden bench in front of the coffeehouse, Kelly said. The blast could be heard many blocks away, according to CNN affiliate WABC-TV of New York.

Seven people were briefly evacuated from the building above the Starbucks, Kelly said, but no one was injured. The interior of the Starbucks sustained no damage.

It's too early to tell whether Monday's incident is connected to other minor explosions in New York City in recent years, including ones at the British and Mexican consulates and another in Times Square, Kelly said.

He did note one immediate similarity between the detonations: All occurred at roughly the same time of night. He said the police would continue to analyze other similarities.

However, Kelly also noted that Starbucks has been the target of low-grade explosions in other cities.

Police plan to examine surveillance cameras for information that could lead investigators to the perpetrator, he said.

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