Haiti's parliament has rejected the nomination of a new prime minister.
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Man convicted of hammer murders ... was rejected for the post by 51 votes to 35. Pierre won the backing of the senate in a vote last week. He had been nominated by Haiti's president after former Prime Minister Jacques-Edouard Alexis was sacked in April over food riots which killed at least six people and wounded around 200. Opposition senators accused Alexis of failing to boost food production.
(Deutsche Welle)
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