By Channel 4 News Confusion reigns in the impoverished Carribean island state of Haiti as the true scale of the earthquake remains unknown but appears to be of epic proportion. It is the most powerful quake to hit the region in 200 years and scythed through the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince. Its epicentre was just ten miles...
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Tehran- Iran issued a statement expressing deep regret over a catastrophic earthquake that hit Haiti on Tuesday The Iranian people and government express their commiseration to the Haitian government and people over the loss of their loved ones and properties, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said. The strongest earthquake in more than 200 years rocked...
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By Jonathan M. Katz The Associated Press Posted: 01/13/2010 01:00:00 AM MST The presidential palace in Port-au- Prince was reduced to ruins in the earthquake. (Lisandro Suero, AFP/Getty Images) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The capital largely has been destroyed in the most powerful earthquake to hit the country in about 240 years. Associated Press journalists described...
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This report was issued by the Office of the Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs in New York. The next report will be issued on or around 13 January 2010. I. HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES - A powerful earthquake of 7.0 magnitude (USGS) on the Richter Scale affected Haiti on 12 January, at 16.53hrs local time (GMT 21.53hrs)....
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