“Disaster planning and response” on The Daily Caller

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has pledged over €400 million ($575 million) to help the needy in Haiti and help rebuild the country from the rubble of last week’s earthquake. (more)

BEIJING (AP) — Rescue workers evacuated thousands of rural residents from parts of northwestern China after extreme cold and blizzard conditions killed four people and left half a million snowed under, meteorologists said Monday. (more)

TORONTO (AP) — Canada will send an additional 1,000 troops to support relief efforts in Haiti in the wake of the devastating earthquake. (more)

GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. spokeswoman says rescue workers have saved more than 70 people from the rubble of Haiti’s earthquake. (more)

GENEVA (AP) — A U.N. spokeswoman says the United Nations is finding the Haitian earthquake to be the worst disaster it has had to face in terms of the resources available for its relief work. (more)

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)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the Haitian earthquake relief effort will not be measured in days or weeks, but in months and even years. (more)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama sent his chief diplomat to Haiti for a firsthand look Saturday at the earthquake’s devastation and invited two former presidents to the White House to discuss their roles in leading fundraising relief for the Caribbean nation. (more)

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)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is enlisting the support of two former presidents in the U.S. effort to help earthquake-ravaged Haiti. (more)

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)

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)

BEIJING (AP) — One of the world’s trickiest relationships is being tested in devastated Haiti, where China and Taiwan are rushing aid to one of Taipei’s few remaining diplomatic allies. Taiwan even announced that its president would personally deliver earthquake aid later this month. (more)

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)

MIAMI (AP) — Retired NBA star Alonzo Mourning, NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick and the Washington Redskins are among several athletes and sports organizations contributing to the recovery effort in earthquake-ravaged Haiti. (more)

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United Nations said Friday about a third of the buildings in Haiti’s capital have been damaged or destroyed, and appealed for $550 million to help three million people badly affected by the earthquake. (more)

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Hendrick Motorsports has loaned an airplane and two flight crews to an organization that is participating in the Haitian earthquake relief efforts. (more)

IRVINE, Calif. (AP) — Tiger Woods plans to help with relief efforts in earthquake-ravaged Haiti by supporting groups providing resources to children. (more)

MIAMI (AP) — Retired NBA star Alonzo Mourning has flown to Haiti to assist relief workers in earthquake-ravaged Port-au-Prince. (more)

MCGUIRE AIR FORCE BASE, N.J. (AP) — Three military cargo planes have flown more than 240 Americans from earthquake-ravaged Haiti to a New Jersey military base. (more)