Bill Clinton returns to Haiti to oversee aid relief

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Former President Clinton, charged with overseeing the United Nations aid mission, returned to Haiti on Friday to meet with Haitian leaders, visit a clinic and deliver supplies, his foundation said.

French rescuers in Haiti on Wednesday pulled from rubble a girl who they believe could have been trapped since the January 12 earthquake.

More aftershocks rocked parts of Chile early Thursday, five days after a massive earthquake that killed more than 800 people.

The two people who died Thursday night when their helicopter crashed into a mountain in the Dominican Republic were friends who had left their homes and family in Florida this week to help deliver aid to the people of Haiti, a son of one of the victims said Friday.

A Haitian judge will decide Wednesday the fate of two American missionaries detained on suspicion of kidnapping 33 children after the devastating earthquake in January.

An investigation continued Monday into a helicopter crash that killed six people, including prominent Mexican businessman Moises Saba Masri, the state-run Notimex news agency said.

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.

Anger boiled over on the streets of Haiti’s capital Tuesday — not just from residents who have gone a week without food and water, but from the people who are supposed to be providing it.

On a field dominated by men, Yanet Moreno is the only woman to step onto the baseball diamond during Cuba’s national championship.

Aid poured in for Chile from home and overseas, with a local television station hoping to raise $27 million by Saturday and the United Nations pledging funds toward recovery efforts after a massive earthquake.

In the wake of the earthquake in Haiti, George Clooney and other celebrities are signing on for a telethon to aid the devastated island nation.

A spokesman for the International Federation of the Red Cross warned Wednesday that up to 3 million people may have been affected by Tuesday’s earthquake in Haiti as aid organizations and governments deployed response teams and pledged resources to the disaster-stricken Caribbean nation.

Search-and-rescue efforts at a supermarket in Haiti’s capital have ended after teams determined no one else was alive beneath the rubble, an official told CNN Wednesday.

She gingerly walked from the car and shuffled up the small hill, her eyes welled in tears.

Residents in coastal cities in Chile started to evacuate Wednesday after authorities warned of a possible tsunami caused by an aftershock.

A four-day transit strike that created a traffic nightmare in the Colombian capital and brought protesters into the streets was resolved Thursday, officials said.