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Bodies pile up after Haiti quake; aid jams airport
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Troops and planeloads of food and medicine streamed into Haiti on Thursday to aid a traumatized nation still rattled by aftershocks from the catastrophic earthquake that flattened homes and government buildings and buried countless people. The Haitian...
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The eventual death toll in the massive earthquake that struck Haiti on Jan. 12 will be unbearable. Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive warned CNN that by Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of people could have died. But while emergency response teams...
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GENEVA – The Haitian earthquake has killed an estimated 45,000-50,000 people, a spokesman for the Red Cross federation said Thursday. “We consider this as an estimate” from the Haitian Red Cross, said Jean-Luc Martinage, a spokesman for the International Federation of...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Desperately needed aid from around the world slowly made its way Thursday into Haiti, where supply bottlenecks and a leadership vacuum left rescuers scrambling on their own to save the trapped and injured and get relief supplies...
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