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New Estimates of Haiti Quake Damage Sharply Higher

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The devastating earthquake that hit Haiti last month may have caused billions of dollars more in damage than initially estimated, according to…

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Handling Tuberculosis in Haiti

Tim King Salem-News.com There are roughly 30,000 new cases of tuberculosis each year in Haiti. (PORT-AU-PRINCE / SALEM) – Haiti has the highest tuberculosis (TB)…

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French leader’s Haiti visit revives bitter legacy

By MICHELLE FAUL (AP) – 6 hours ago PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Nicolas Sarkozy’s visit Wednesday, the first ever by a French president, is reviving bitter…

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Fears of another quake become new Haiti boogeyman

By PAISLEY DODDS (AP) – 1 hour ago PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Hundreds of houses that survived Haiti’s killer quake still stand empty even as quake…

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DAILY REPORT 12:15-15th FEB 2010-Of WHAT USE ARE AMERICAN SOLDIERS IN HAITI??

SOME SAY ZERO!!!  SOME SUGGEST A SUBSTANTIVE NEGATIVE FACTOR FOR THE HAITIAN ECONOMY AND SECURITY. We have just been visited  by two nuns from downtown…

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American Red Cross must explain $175 million in unallocated Haiti donations

One month ago, singer Wycef Jean’s “NGO” (for”Non-Governmental Organization) called “Yele Haiti” raised just over $1 million to help victims of the 7.0 Haiti Earthquake….

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Haiti’s elite sees business opportunities emerging from reconstruction- With Added COMMENTARY From Haitian-Truth

By Juan Forero Washington Post Foreign service Monday, February 15, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — Last month’s earthquake battered Reginald Boulos’s small empire, destroying one of…

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U.S. brags Haiti response is a ‘model’ while more than a million remain homeless in Haiti

Over a month after the earthquake, hundreds of thousands of Haitians are still living in “sheet cities,” their only shelter made of bedsheets tied to…

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Why did so many people die in Haiti’s quake?

By Lucy Rodgers BBC News The devastating earthquakes that hit China on 12 May 2008, Italy on 6 April 2009 and Haiti one month ago…

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Leogane: Haiti’s ‘neglected’ quake-hit town

By Christian Fraser BBC News, Leogane, Haiti The mountain of rock that dominates the main square in Leogane was once a cathedral. It surrounds an…

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Adoption `lawyer’ tied to child sex case in El Salvador

BY PATRICIA MAZZEI, MICHAEL SALLAH AND GERARDO REYES pmazzei@MiamiHerald.com SANTO DOMINGO — The man providing legal advice to American church workers charged with trying to…

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US reduces troop numbers in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE — The US military has reduced its number of troops in Haiti to 13,000 from a post-quake high of some 20,000 because the need…

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Detained Americans seek distance from adviser

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A man who provided legal assistance to 10 jailed U.S. missionaries and who may be wanted for human trafficking in El Salvador…

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Race to the Rainy Season in Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE–(ENEWSPF)– One month after the catastrophic quake that leveled most of Port-au-Prince, CARE and other aid agencies are in a race against time to get…

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Haiti Faces Major Food Crisis as Planting Season Nears, UN Says

February 12, 2010, 03:50 PM EST By Bill Varner Feb. 12 (Bloomberg) — Haiti faces a major food crisis due to a lack of support…

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Education Was Also Leveled by Quake in Haiti

By MARC LACEY Published: February 13, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Christina Julme was scribbling notes in the back of a linguistics class at the State…

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A Haitian-Free Rebuilding Plan?

A Haitian-Free Rebuilding Plan? For OpEdNews: Stanley Lucas – Writer Over the past 25 years, rampant political violence and an almost totally corrupt business and…

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DAILY REPORT: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2010 NO MORE FREE WATER AS OF FEBRUARY 17TH!!!

One month ago, the disastrous quake cut the heart out of our Nation. People have yet to actually realize the gravity of their situation. People…

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Baby pulled from Haiti quake rubble treated in London

A three-month-old girl who was pulled from the rubble after the earthquake in Haiti is to undergo life-saving surgery at leading London hospitals. Landina Seignon…

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Haiti thanks America by arresting missionaries-COMMENTARY by Haitian-Truth added below article

News about the American missionaries being detained in Haiti for attempting to get children out of the country (“Missionaries in Haiti face kidnap charges,” Geopolitics,…