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Haitians went to the polls to elect a new president Sunday. The contest pit an elderly former first lady against one of Haiti's most famous and colorful pop singers. Despite some delays at polling places, the election was much smoother than November's troubled primary. But results aren't expected until the end of March.

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Moammar Gadhafi said he won't let up on the anti-government rebellion in the east, even after the U.S. and its European allies targeted his troops with airstrikes and dozens of cruise missiles. Gadhafi said he is arming Libyans with automatic weapons and bombs. "We promise you a long war," he said.

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The country's nuclear safety agency raised the Fukushima Dai-ichi accident to a Level 5 out of 7, putting it on par with the Three Mile Island accident. Emergency workers struggled to cool overheated fuel rods at the plant, while Japanese officials admitted the quake and tsunami had overwhelmed the government and slowed its response to the nuclear problems.

As search and rescue teams from all over Japan work through tsunami debris in the northeast, they have been joined by a team from the Los Angeles County Fire Department. Leader Dave Stone, who has worked recently in New Zealand and Haiti, says his team has never seen anything of "this scope and magnitude."

The 22-member organization can't impose a no-fly zone itself. But its approval gives the U.S. and other Western powers crucial regional backing they say they need before doing so. The move came as Moammar Gadhafi's forces retook the key oil port city of Ras Lanuf.

Watching images of Japan’s devastation has been especially difficult for those with friends and family in the country.

Airs Sunday, March 13, 2011 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

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