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UN: Crucial to House Homeless in Haiti Before Rains Begin

UN: Crucial to House Homeless in Haiti Before Rains Begin The International Organization for Migration estimates more than one million earthquake victims in Haiti are…

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Push to Send FEMA Trailers to Haiti Stirs Backlash Industry push to send leftover FEMA trailers to Haiti stirs backlash, called ‘self-serving’

The trailer industry and lawmakers are pressing the government to send Haiti thousands of potentially formaldehyde-laced trailers left over from Hurricane Katrina — an idea…

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Diddy, Queen Latifah to host BET concert for Haiti

NEW YORK – Sean “Diddy” Combs, Queen Latifah and Pharrell are set to host a two-hour concert and telethon to benefit Haiti on Feb. 5….

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Haiti must learn to live with earthquakes: experts say

By Jordi Zamora (AFP) – 5 hours ago PORT-AU-PRINCE — It will be difficult to convince Haitians to spend extra money and rebuild their quake-ravaged…

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Haiti Aid Efforts Go Awry in the ‘Convoy to Nowhere’

By CHRISTOPHER RHOADS PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Scott Lewis hoped to deliver more than one million meals to Haitians on Wednesday via a 15-truck convoy brimming with beans…

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Daily report January 28, 2010- Direct from Haiti

PREVAL COULD MAKE $20,000,000 WITH THE 200,000 TENTS. If President Rene Preval is not greedy, and leaves some room for others to profit, he can…

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Catastrophe in the Caribbean One of the world’s most vulnerable countries is devastated by a murderous earthquake

IF THERE is one country in the Americas that cannot afford to suffer a natural disaster, it is dirt-poor and politically fragile Haiti. In 2008…

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Workers flock to clothing factories as industrial park reopens

In a sign that this battered nation is slowly beginning its long road back from the quake’s devastation, factories at the Sonapi Industrial Park have…

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Haitian government defends actions in response to earthquake

BY JACQUELINE CHARLES jcharles@MiamiHerald.com PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haiti’s prime minister defended his government’s performance, Bill Clinton stumped for aid in Switzerland and the Rev. Jesse Jackson…

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A day in the life of a Haiti tent city -The Daihatsu camp in Port-au-Prince arose on its own and still awaits adequate aid. ‘You have to have faith,’ one resident says.

By Mitchell Landsberg Reporting from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti – Morning arrives with the melody of the Haitian streets. A rooster crows, and two street preachers stand…

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Haiti aid tracked by BBC in use by quake survivors

By Rajesh Mirchandani BBC News, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti Fifty tonnes of aid supplies tracked by the BBC from Oxfordshire in the UK are nearing the…

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Clinton: More immigrants from Haiti may be allowed

Federal officials try to prevent earthquake victims from risking dangerous voyages William E. Gibson – Sun Sentinel WASHINGTON (MCT) – U.S. officials are talking about…

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Paul Shirley Haiti Advice: “Maybe Use A Condom Once In A While”

NEW YORK (CBS) Former professional NBA player Paul Shirley has some choice advice for the victims of the 7.0 earthquake that rocked Haiti: “use a…

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Montreal hosts Haiti aid talks

Activists decry militarization, profiteering, and political exclusion By Niko Block and Michael Lee-Murphy Published: 6:26 am On Monday, Montreal hosted the Ministerial Preparatory Conference on the…

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Engineer: Construction crux of Haiti earthquake tragedy

BY DOUG OAKLEY Contra Costa Times WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Haiti’s construction industry is to blame for hundreds of thousands of deaths in a tragedy…

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Haitian girl saved from rubble after 15 days

By Charlie Onians and Alex Ogle (AFP) – PORT-AU-PRINCE — Rescuers Wednesday dragged a Haitian girl alive from the rubble 15 days after a devastating…

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Daily Report-WEDNESDAY JANUARY 27, 2010

5 more aftershocks!! More buildings collapse. Drove past our office location for the first time and saw the pile of rubble that was once a…

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FLASH FLASH FLASH PREVAL PLAN TO MAINTAIN POWER

Doesn’t matter that a lot of people will starve because of this!! Preval, with MINUSTAH support, planned to control all relief supplies, channeling them   exclusively…

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Haiti’s orphans: Why they remain in limbo

By Jessica Ravitz(CNN) — There’s nothing like images of infants and children in distress to make outsiders yearn to help, which is why the unfolding…

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NASA to inspect Haitian quake fault lines

PASADENA, Calif., Jan. 27 (UPI) — NASA says it has added several science overflights of earthquake faults in Haiti and the Dominican Republic to a…