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Three people in Haiti have already been killed this week as storm bands from Melissa lashed the impoverished nation with heavy downpours, provoking landslides.

Security forces "sought to negotiate with the leader to voluntarily surrender to the relevant authorities, but he refused and barricaded himself inside the camp... and began firing, provoking security personnel, and terrorising residents", Bakir said.

Metternich appreciated that diplomacy could bolster national power as well as restrain allies from provoking war.

They were motivated to clinch a deal without provoking the ire of YouTube TV’s base of nearly 10 million customers.

He replaced the members of the vaccine advisory panel in June, and fired its chief Susan Monarez in late August, provoking a group of senior staff to resign in protest.