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Published 02/24/2010 - 9:46 p.m. EST

HAITI, February 24,2010 (IRIN) - Millions of people around the world have been forced to leave their homes.

Published 02/22/2010 - 12:10 a.m. EST

Ginette Ju-Louis works to measure and mark-off where she will erect her new shack in the collapsed Marche Tete Boeuf market along the Grande Rue.
Ginette Ju-Louis works to measure and mark-off where she will erect her new shack in the collapsed Marche Tete Boeuf market along the Grande Rue. (Photo: Getty Images)

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Published 02/18/2010 - 12:02 a.m. EST

US missionaries leave Haiti for US Eight American missionaries were freed from a Haitian jail and left for Miami on Wednesday, nearly three weeks after being arrested trying to take 33 children out of the earthquake-stricken country.

Published 02/05/2010 - 8:13 p.m. EST

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former US President Bill Clinton (Photo: BBC News)

Haiti faces a massive task helping those who lost homes and livelihoods in the recent earthquake, former US President Bill Clinton has admitted.

Published 01/31/2010 - 10:19 p.m. EST

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Dr. Phuoc Le, of Boston, Massachusetts, top right, and a medevac pilot, transfer five-year-old Betina Joseph, below left, and a fourteen-month-old with pneumonia to a private jet for their evacuation to Children's Hospital in Philadelphia by the Boston-based aid group Partners in Health from Port-au-Prince, Sunday, Jan. 31, 2010. (Photo: The Star)

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - The U.S. government said on Sunday it would resume military evacuation flights to the United States for badly injured Haitian earthquake victims...

Published 01/31/2010 - 2:13 a.m. EST

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American citizen Laura Silsby, 40, of Boise, Idaho, right, speaks as Nicole Lankford, 18, of Middleton, Idaho, left, and Carla Thompson, 53, of Meridien, Idaho, center, look on during an interview with the Associated Press at police headquarters at the international airport in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010. (Photo: The New York Times)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - Ten Americans were detained by Haitian police on Saturday as they tried to bus 33 children across the border into the Dominican Republic...

Published 01/29/2010 - 2:35 a.m. EST

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A man walks through the ruins of downtown Port-au-Prince, left ravaged by Haiti's earthquake. (Photo: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Like almost anyone from Hispaniola, the island uncomfortably shared by Haiti and the Dominican Republic, Paloma Rivera is acutely aware that the two nations distrust each other, complain about each other and cite grievances about each other going back well over a century.

Published 01/20/2010 - 2:52 a.m. EST

Starting to unload the boxes to set MSF's inflatable hospital on site in a football field in Port-au-Prince. Monday, Jan 18th 2010.
tarting to unload the boxes to set MSF's inflatable hospital on site in a football field in Port-au-Prince. Monday, Jan 18th 2010. (Photo: Julie Remy/MSF)

PORT-AU-PRINCE -  A Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) cargo plane carrying 12 tons of medical equipment, including drugs, surgical supplies and two dialysis machines, was turned away three times from Port-au-Prince airport since Sunday night despite repeated assurances of its ability to land there.

Published 01/18/2010 - 4:52 a.m. EST

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Haitian children are being fed. (Photo: Breitbart)

Haitians wait for food and supplies from international aid at the entrance ...

Published 02/13/2010 - 1:09 a.m. EST

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People gather on the national day of mourning outside the earthquake damaged National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. (Photo: The Siasat Daily)

WASHINGTON, February 13, 2010 -  In tent cities, outside demolished churches, and at the mass graves that have become a symbol of their appalling loss, the people of Haiti paused yesterday to mark the one month anniversary of the natural disaster that killed 230,000 people and left millions more struggling for survival.

Published 02/05/2010 - 5:36 p.m. EST

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Phuong Tran/IRIN (Photo: http://www.irinnews.org/photo.aspx)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (IRIN) - A call by Haiti’s government for schools to reopen in areas spared by the earthquake has gone largely unheeded because of parents’ fears and financial woes.

Published 01/31/2010 - 5:54 a.m. EST

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A woman carries a bundle and a bucket on her head at a makeshift camp for earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010. (Photo: BBC News)

The UN is to begin a major programme of food distribution in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, almost three weeks after the deadly earthquake.

Published 01/29/2010 - 5:33 p.m. EST

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A U.N. police officer unties the hands of a boy who took part in looting in downtown Port-au-Prince January 29, 2010. (Photo: Reuters)

HAITI -  Relief and rescue workers from around the world have poured into Haiti following the catastrophic Jan. 12 earthquake.

Published 01/21/2010 - 4:40 a.m. EST

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Men pull a stretcher with the body of a woman who died of a heart attack with the 6.1-magnitude aftershock in Port-au-Prince, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010. (Photo: The Boston Globe)

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti-Workers are carving out mass graves on a hillside north of Haiti's capital, using earth-movers to bury 10,000 earthquake victims in a single day while relief workers warn the death toll could increase.

Published 01/19/2010 - 5:19 a.m. EST

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People cling to a tree as a U.S. helicopter, carrying disaster relief supplies, flies over a refugee camp in Port-au-Prince, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. (Photo: Kenya Broadcasting Corp)

HAITI - Port-au-Prince's port was badly damaged by last week's earthquake, and many roads are still blocked by corpses and debris, hampering the delivery of fuel and other supplies.

Published 01/17/2010 - 9:24 p.m. EST

U.N. envoy to Haiti, Hedi Annabi, speaks to the media at the U.N. headquarters in Port-au-Prince.
U.N. envoy to Haiti, Hedi Annabi, speaks to the media at the U.N. headquarters in Port-au-Prince. (Photo: Agencies)

PORT-AU-PRINCE: Hedi Annabi, chief of United Nations (UN) in Haiti was found dead among debris in the quake-destroyed UN headquarters in Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, Chinese rescuers announced on Saturday.