Jan 23 2010
UN: Haiti government calls off search and rescue
(AP)
AP – Haiti’s government has declared the search and rescue phase for survivors of the earthquake over, the United Nations announced Saturday, saying there is little hope of finding more people alive 11 days after much of the capital was reduced to rubble.
Jan 23 2010
UN: Haiti government calls off search and rescue
(AP)
AP – Haiti’s government has declared the search and rescue phase for survivors of the earthquake over, the United Nations announced Saturday, saying there is little hope of finding more people alive 11 days after much of the capital was reduced to rubble.
Jan 22 2010
Haiti relocating homeless, port repairs needed
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AP – Haitian officials are planning a massive relocation of 400,000 people from makeshift camps to the outskirts of the capital as the U.S. government tackles repairs to the damaged main port — dual efforts to help residents survive the aftermath of the catastrophic earthquake.
Jan 21 2010
Obama, Dems consider pared-back health care bill
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AP – President Barack Obama and congressional allies signaled Wednesday they may try to scale back his sweeping health care overhaul to keep parts of it alive in the wake of a stinging rebuke in the Senate race in Massachusetts.
Jan 19 2010
Suddenly close Mass. race threatens national Dems
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AP – In a contest with major national implications, Democrat Martha Coakley and Republican Scott Brown battled to succeed the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy on Tuesday in a down-to-the-wire election that became a referendum on President Barack Obama’s sweeping health care overhaul and his first year in office.
Jan 18 2010
More troops, aid go to Haiti, but hunger persists
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AP – Troops, doctors and aid workers flowed into Haiti on Monday even while victims of the quake that killed an estimated 200,000 people still struggled to find a cup of water or a handful of food.
Jan 17 2010
Haitians desperate for supplies; rescues continue
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AP – Drumbeats called the faithful to a Sunday Mass behind mounds of rubble and amid the few remaining walls of Port-au-Prince’s destroyed Roman Catholic cathedral to listen to a sermon in a scene resembling the Apocalypse.
Jan 16 2010
Officials work to speed aid to devastated Haitians
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AP – With food, water and other aid flowing into Haiti in earnest, relief groups and officials are focused on moving the supplies out of the clogged airport and to hungry, haggard earthquake survivors in the capital.
Jan 14 2010
Haiti quake aid snarled; up to 50,000 feared dead
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AP – Doctors and search dogs, troops and rescue teams flew to this devastated land of dazed, dead and dying people Thursday, finding bottlenecks everywhere, beginning at a main airport short on jet fuel and ramp space and without a control tower.
Jan 13 2010
Tens of thousands feared dead after Haiti quake
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AP – Dazed survivors wandered past dead bodies in rubble-strewn streets Wednesday, crying for loved ones, and rescuers searched collapsed buildings as officials feared the death toll from Haiti’s devastating earthquake could reach into the tens of thousands.