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RSSPORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — International observers are waiting on Haiti’s president to accept a report suggesting his party’s candidate be eliminated from a contentious election to choose the quake-ravaged country’s next leader.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Supporters of one of her competitors in Haiti’s presidential election set barricades on fire and threw rubble at cars when initial...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Haiti’s much-anticipated presidential election ended Sunday as broken as the buildings around the capital city, with protests flaring...
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Widespread irregularities in Haiti’s presidential and legislative race Sunday led most candidates to call for the election to be voided.
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Over the past month about 1,200 Haitians have died in an outbreak of cholera while thousands more have sought treatment in hospitals.
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Haiti’s cholera epidemic caused by weather, say scientists
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Crushed buildings from the January earthquake still spill out onto sidewalks here, people are collapsing from cholera at hospital doors and a...
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UNITED NATIONS: The UN has rejected the charge that Nepali peacekeepers in Haiti brought cholera to the Caribbean nation which claimed more than 1,100...
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A Southwest Florida woman who visited family in the disease-stricken Artibonite Valley of Haiti and a Haitian construction worker who lives in the eastern Dominican...
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MEXICO CITY — Medical authorities in Haiti defended their decision Tuesday not to focus on finding the origins of a cholera outbreak that has killed more than 1,000...
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The UN has appealed for nearly $164m (£102m) to fight a cholera outbreak in Haiti which has now claimed 724 lives.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE: The toll in the cholera epidemic in Haiti has risen to 724, authorities said.
The disease has infected a total of 11,125 people nationwide, according...
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It seems uncommonly cruel and unjust that a nation as devastated as Haiti is facing the threat of a cholera epidemic even as it struggles to cope with the aftermath of...
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Health officials say the country’s epidemic is now a matter of `national security’ as the disease has started to spread in the earthquake-battered capital...
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At least 120 people in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, are being tested for cholera, health officials say.
Doctors have told the BBC the disease is...
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Haitian authorities confirmed Saturday that five people have died and 57 were injured in the torrential rains that fell Friday in the nation’s capital and other...
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The hip-hop star Wyclef Jean’s bid to become the president of Haiti appeared to be in doubt last night after an election official said he was not on the list of...
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A decision on who is eligible to run for president in Haiti has been postponed until Friday, leaving hip-hop artist Wyclef Jean and the other presidential hopefuls in...
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Haitian-born musician Wyclef Jean has said he will run for president of the earthquake-hit Caribbean country.
The Fugees star will officially announce his candidacy on...
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If there is any hope for Haiti, you surely find it in the broad smile of six-year-old Telia Jacques.
She smiles despite her thin left leg that will not fully...
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Haiti’s president on Wednesday rejected U.S. Senate recommendations on holding an election for his successor, brushing off criticism that the current process will...
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Haiti’s population is rebounding from January’s devastating earthquake and is on course to boom over following decades, according to the US census...
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The 22-year-old woman, wearing a gauzy blue dress that she had changed into after her release, spoke in a whispery voice.
Perhaps the worst part of the whole ordeal,...
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Four soldiers died in the fiery crash of a Spanish military helicopter Friday in the rugged mountains of eastern Haiti, the United Nations said.
The soldiers were part...
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Donors have pledged nearly $10bn (£6.6bn) in aid to Haiti, more than double the amount requested by the country’s president after the January earthquake that...
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When the young woman needed to use the toilet, she went out into the darkened tent camp and was attacked by three men.
“They grabbed me, put their hands over my...
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Torrential rain has battered makeshift camps in Haiti, swamping earthquake survivors in mud and giving a menacing foretaste of the coming rainy...
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Inside Disaster has a story that shows another side to the disastrous aftermath of the Haiti earthquake.
Nico Jolliet spent time on the streets and watched as the...
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Four weeks after an earthquake shattered its capital, Haiti remains in a precarious situation with no clear idea of how to house 1 million people living in the streets,...
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Haiti has the highest tuberculosis rate in the Americas, and health experts say it is about to drastically increase.
But amid the ramshackle remains of the hospital...
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Haitian Communication Minister Marie-Laurence Jocelyn Lassegue said that these Americans were being questioned by a Haitian judge to determine whether they will face...
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Nearly half a million people have fled Port-au-Prince for the Haitian countryside following the devastating earthquake that destroyed the capital, the United Nations...
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The United Nations Development Fund for Women, UNIFEM, has appointed Chilean President Michelle Bachelet as spokesperson for the agency’s work in Haiti, the Chilean...
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The acting head of the UN mission in Haiti has said reconstruction will take several decades, following the devastating earthquake two weeks ago.
Edmond Mulet told the...
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Around 3 months after the plane crash that resulted in the death of 5 Jordanian peacekeepers in Haiti, 3 Jordanian peacekeepers died and 23 were injured in the...
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India has already pledged $6 million as immediate emergency cash donation after the 7.0 magnitude quake that has brought the nation of 9.8 million virtually to its...
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A 6.1-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti on Wednesday morning, shaking buildings and sending screaming people running into the streets only eight days after the...
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Scores of bodies were found in a mass grave outside the capital city of Port-au-Prince on Friday, a sign of Haitians’ desperation three days after a 7.0-magnitude...
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Brazil’s Defense Minister Nelson Jobim, left, and Bolivia’s Defense Minister Walker San Miguel, center, attend a medal ceremony at the U.N. Brazilian base in Port-au-Prince, Saturday, April 25, 2009. Jobim and San Miguel are on a one-day official...
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