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Police nab 30 in pre-dawn raid on Haiti quake camp

UN and Haitian police raided a crowded earthquake survivor camp on Friday to capture 30 criminal sus...

Up to 300,000 people killed in Haiti quake: UN

Haiti`s devastating January 12 earthquake killed between 250,000 and 300,000 people, the head of the...

Red tape idles aid trucks at Haiti`s border

After six days of waiting at Haiti`s border, Mario Polanco was losing patience with the red tape hol...

US, Cuba hold rare meeting at UN, with Haiti focus

Cuban and US diplomats have held a rare meeting at the United Nations that focused on aid efforts fo...

World raises nearly $10 bn for quake-hit Haiti

The global community on Wednesday pledged nearly USD 10 billion for Haiti over more than three years...

Bill Clinton asks donors to make Haiti self-sufficient

Former US president Bill Clinton is urging the aid groups serving Haiti`s devastated communities to ...

Obama seeks $2.8 bn for quake-hit Haiti

US President Barack Obama is asking Congress for USD 2.8 billion in emergency funding for the recons...

Former US Presidents try to keep world attention on Haiti

Former US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W Bush visited Port-au-Prince and promised Haitians the...

Frustrations await George W Bush, Bill Clinton visit to Haiti

One restored a Haitian president to power; the other flew him back out again. Former US presidents B...

Japan to boost Haiti aid to $100 mn: Report

Japan will boost its aid to quake-hit Haiti to USD 100 million, a report said on Friday as the count...

Haiti reconstruction estimated at USD 11.5bn

Haiti needs USD 11.5bn over 3 years to rebuild after Jan earthquake devastated one of the world`s po...

Women, girls rape victims in Haiti quake aftermath

When the young woman needed to use the toilet, she went out into the darkened tent camp and was atta...

UN chief visiting Haiti today

Two months after a devastating earthquake hit Haiti, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is visiting th...

US troops withdrawing en masse from Haiti

The US troops are withdrawing from the shattered capital, leaving many Haitians anxious that the mos...

90,000 jobs lost in quake-hit Haiti: UN agency

Some 90,000 jobs have been lost in Haiti following the devastation of January`s earthquake, a UN age...

EU envoy visits Haiti, defends lateness of trip

European Union foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton visited quake-hit Haiti with pledges of long-t...

Haiti crisis is ‘unprecedented’ so far: UN

Terming the destruction in Haiti as "unprecedented", a senior UN official has said it is the most se...

All Haitian `orphans` with Baptists had parents: Report

There is not one orphan among the 33 children that a US Baptist group tried to take from Haiti in a ...

Govt to take land for temporary camps: Haiti PM

Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive says the Haitian government will appropriate land to build tempora...

Haiti PM fears government collapse

Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said on Thursday his government could collapse because pol...

US military reduces troop numbers in Haiti

The US military has reduced its number of troops in Haiti to 13,000 from a post-quake high of some 2...

`Good shelter` unlikely in Haiti: UN official

A top UN official in Haiti on Friday said many of those made homeless by the massive earthquake one ...

US missionaries set for release in Haiti

Ten US missionaries from Idaho-based New Life Children`s Refuge charity accused of illegally trying ...

Haiti quake toll rises to 217,000

Haiti raised the death toll on Wednesday from last month`s quake above 217,000, while the focus turn...

Haiti unable to explain death toll of 230,000

Haiti`s government says 230,000 people died in the January 12 earthquake - as many as the 2004 Asian...

Haiti quake refugee camps tighten security to prevent rapes

One of the unmentioned effects of last month’s earthquake in Haiti is that women and young girls are...

I am sorry: Bill Clinton to angry Haitians

Former US president Bill Clinton pledged to try to get aid flowing as he was met by angry Haitians p...

No early release for US missionaries in Haiti

Ten US Baptist missionaries charged with child kidnapping returned to jail on Friday after failing t...

10 Americans charged with kidnapping children in Haiti

Ten Americans have been charged with abduction of children in the aftermath of earthquake in Haiti, ...

Haiti death toll tops 200,000 as aid anger mounts

The death toll in the Haiti quake has swelled to 200,000, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive said as ...

Man pulled from Haiti rubble after quake

US military has pulled a Haitian man alive from under rubble in Port-au-Prince, but it wasn`t clear ...

61 UN personnel dead, 180 missing in the Haiti quake

Sixty-one UN personnel are confirmed dead in quake devastated Haiti and 180 are still missing, the...

UN says `still hope` to find survivors after Haiti quake

The UN said today there was "still hope" of pulling more survivors from the debris from Haiti`s eart...

UN says 300,000 homeless after Haiti quake

An estimated 300,000 people have been left homeless by the devastating Haiti earthquake.

Haiti quake: US gives $100mn, sends troops

A sweeping US military and civilian operation to aid quake-hit Haiti kicked into high gear Thursday,...

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