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US halt to Haiti evacuations stirs fears for sick

January 31, 2010
US halt to Haiti evacuations stirs fears for sick

A man, bleeding from the head after a fight between suspected looters and security personnel, squats outside a household appliances store in downtown Port au Prince January 29 Critically injured Haitian earthquake victims are no longer being flown by the US military for treatment in the US, raising fears some will die in a dispute [...]

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Haitian man rescued from rubble after 11 days

January 24, 2010
Haitian man rescued from rubble after 11 days

Wismond Exantus, a 25-year-old who was found alive in the ruins of a grocer’s shop, lies in a camp bed in a French field hospital in Port-au-Prince Rescuers pulled a man alive from the rubble on Saturday 11 days after Haiti’s devastating earthquake, raising hopes of finding more survivors even after the government called off [...]

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Haiti says 200,000 may be dead, tensions rise

January 17, 2010
Haiti says 200,000 may be dead, tensions rise

A resident carries Samael Jachond, who was rescued from the remains of his house, four days after the earthquake Tensions rose among desperate Haitians awaiting international aid and hunting for missing relatives on Saturday as aid began to trickle in four days after an earthquake that Haitian authorities say killed 200,000 people. Haiti’s shell-shocked government [...]

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Tens of thousands feared dead in Haiti quake

January 14, 2010
Tens of thousands feared dead in Haiti quake

A man calls for help while being trapped at the Port-au-Prince University, after a major earthquake struck, in Port-au-Prince in this January 13, 2010 video grab Traumatized Haitians slept out in parks and streets on Thursday, fearing aftershocks to the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people. Tens of thousands [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...