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White House: Medical evacuations of Haitians to resume thumbnail

White House: Medical evacuations of Haitians to resume

Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States will resume within a few hours, the White House announced Sunday afternoon.
13 dead, 13 injured in Juarez shooting, Mexican police say thumbnail

13 dead, 13 injured in Juarez shooting, Mexican police say

As many as 15 gunmen stormed into a house party in Juarez, Mexico, in the early hours of Sunday morning
Massive food distribution begins in quake-ravaged Haitian capital thumbnail

Massive food distribution begins in quake-ravaged Haitian capital

A massive food distribution coordinated by the World Food Programme, international aid agencies and the Haitian government was under way Sunday in the quake-ravaged capital.
Detained Americans say they had good intentions in Haiti thumbnail

Detained Americans say they had good intentions in Haiti

Ten Americans charged with trafficking in Haiti defended their plan to bus 33 children into the Dominican Republic, saying their intention was to get them to a temporary shelter.
10 arrested with 33 children at Haiti-Dominican border thumbnail

10 arrested with 33 children at Haiti-Dominican border

Ten people, including Americans and Dominicans, carrying 33 children were arrested along the Haitian-Dominican Republic border Saturday, according to Mario Andresol, chief of Haitian National Police.
Massive food distribution to begin Sunday in Port-au-Prince thumbnail

Massive food distribution to begin Sunday in Port-au-Prince

Massive food distribution coordinated by the World Food Programme, international aid agencies and the Haitian government will begin Sunday in the quake-ravaged capital.
Businessman arranges burial rites for about 2,500 quake victims thumbnail

Businessman arranges burial rites for about 2,500 quake victims

Daniel Rouzier clutched a mahogany rosary and a pair of latex gloves in his left hand, his face covered in a sterile mask.
U.S. military: Evacuations of injured Haitians suspended thumbnail

U.S. military: Evacuations of injured Haitians suspended

Flights transporting critically injured Haitians into the United States have temporarily been suspended because of logistical issues, including a lack
Task of rebuilding Haiti expected to be ambitious, arduous thumbnail

Task of rebuilding Haiti expected to be ambitious, arduous

In a modest office in the neighborhood of Petionville, Haiti, engineers, architects, aid workers and government officials are working on the earthquake-ravaged country’s future. They call it Haiti 2.0.
Peru evacuates last stranded tourists thumbnail

Peru evacuates last stranded tourists

Authorities in Peru have rescued the last of hundreds of travelers who had been stranded by flooding in a town near one of South America’s most popular tourist destinations, a government official said Friday.

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