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January 18th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Thousands of U.S. Marines were expected off the shore of this crumbled capital city Monday to help relief organizations get supplies to Haitian earthquake survivors who questioned foreigners, soldiers and God about aid yet to arrive. (more)

January 18th, 2010

JACMEL, Haiti (AP) — This coastal city normally would be gearing up for its raucous Carnival festival, with celebrants in brightly decorated masks dancing in the streets and the air filled with joyous song. (more)

January 17th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Deeply religious Haitians see the hand of God in the destruction of Biblical proportions visited on their benighted country. The quake, religious leaders said Sunday, is evidence that He wants change. (more)

January 17th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — There is no food or water for the 80 elderly people at the quake-damaged Port-au-Prince Municipal Hospice, just a mile from the airport where a massive international aid effort is taking shape. (more)

January 17th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Rescuers pulled a dehydrated but otherwise uninjured woman from the ruins of a luxury hotel in the Haitian capital early Sunday, an event greeted with applause from onlookers witnessing rare good news in a city otherwise filled with corpses, rubble and desperation. (more)

January 16th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — American rescue workers have freed a woman trapped for four days under the rubble of a collapsed university building, a rare miracle in a city awash in death and misery. (more)

January 16th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — They wait outside crumbled schools or shattered markets, searching for sisters, fathers, children, lovers. They stand vigil at smashed buildings where sons were last known to be, or at tangles of concrete where their mothers once went shopping. (more)

January 16th, 2010

LEOGANE, Haiti (AP) — As aid masses in Haiti’s devastated capital, time is running out in parts of rural Haiti where the damage is no less severe. In Leogane, frustrated men gathered Saturday with machetes and clubs, ready to fight for a town they said the world has forgotten in its rush to help the Haitian capital. (more)

January 16th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has arrived in the Haitian capital to meet with President Rene Preval and receive an update on earthquake relief efforts. (more)

January 16th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A strongly felt aftershock has shaken Haiti’s capital, briefly interrupting efforts to rescue victims of Tuesday’s big quake. (more)

January 16th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (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. (more)

January 16th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — For years, Claude Surena has treated the sick at his two-story hillside home near the center of the Haitian capital. (more)

January 16th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Haitians are in desperate need of drinking water because of an earthquake-damaged municipal pipeline and truck drivers either unable or unwilling to deliver their cargo. (more)

January 15th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — She had already spent three days under the rubble, and by the time rescuers pulled the woman from the crumpled home, they told her crying relatives to dump her broken body with the other corpses on the sidewalk. (more)

January 15th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Cradling babies and limping on crutches, hundreds of Americans waved their passports in the air and begged U.S. soldiers Friday to let them on flights out of Haiti’s earthquake-ravaged capital. (more)

January 15th, 2010

CARREFOUR, Haiti (AP) — The sense here is helplessness. There is no one to be angry at over an earthquake, no political frustration to vent. (more)

January 15th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — The body lies on the side of the road that leads to and from Haiti’s capital city. (more)

January 15th, 2010

HAVANA (AP) — Twenty-six patients at Cuba’s largest hospital for the mentally ill died this week during a cold snap, the government said Friday. (more)

January 15th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — One hundred and sixty U.S. citizens are desperately waving their passports in the air in a chaotic scene at the airport of Haiti’s devastated capital. (more)

January 15th, 2010

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — U.S. military air traffic controllers are scrambling to keep earthquake aid flowing into the Haitian capital without the use of a control tower or radar, and amid struggles over fuel, tarmac space and even staircases to access planes. (more)

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