A young boy, Charlie Simpson raises more than £150,000 ($240,000) for the Haiti earthquake. He had hoped to raise just £500 for UNICEF’s earthquake appeal by cycling eight kilometers (five miles) around a local park. He put on his JustGiving page. a fundraising site which launched his efforts, “My name is Charlie Simpson. I...
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The aftershock that hit Haiti shortly after 6 a.m. on Wednesday frightened Haitians traumatized by last week’s much stronger earthquake and raised concerns that it could bring down buildings weakened by the original earthquake and cause more loss of life. The US Geological Survey (USGS) said the latest earthquake has a magnitude of 6.1...
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Haitians woke up to a 6.1-magnitude earthquake on Wednesday morning. The U.S. Geological survey is reporting the earthquake happened at 6:03 a.m., about 35 miles away from Port-au-Prince. People panicked and people started running as damaged buildings shook in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. In the past week since the devastating 7.0 earthquake struck Haiti, at least...
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SYDNEY (AFP) – Rival Australian news crews said Monday that saving a life came before doing their jobs when they rescued an 18-month-old baby from underneath the rubble in earthquake-devastated Haiti. The little girl was lying alongside the bodies of her dead parents who were killed in the 7.0 magnitude earthquake which hit Port-au-Prince...
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LOS ANGELES – Haitian-born rapper Wyclef Jean spoke out Saturday in defense of his foundation after charity screening groups raised concerns about its accounting practices. Jean said he was baffled by the timing and nature of criticism of The Wyclef Jean Foundation Inc., which has already raised more than $2 million to help earthquake...
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(CNN) — The top two civilian officials at the U.N. mission in Haiti were killed in Tuesday’s earthquake, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon confirmed Saturday. Special Representative Hedi Annabi and his deputy, Luiz Carlos da Costa, have died, Ban said in a written statement. Acting U.N. Police Commissioner in Haiti Doug Coates also died, he said....
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(CNN) — In Jacmel, Haiti, as light rain fell with the darkness Wednesday, Gwenn Goodale Mangine and a group of 35 people prepared to spend their second night sleeping outside on mattresses and cardboard boxes in her driveway. Everyone is scared to be indoors. It is cold and damp. The people of Jacmel line...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Dazed survivors wandered past dead bodies in rubble-strewn streets Wednesday, crying for loved ones, and rescuers desperately searched collapsed buildings as fear rose that the death toll from Haiti’s devastating earthquake could reach into the tens of thousands. The first cargo planes with food, water, medical supplies, shelter and sniffer dogs...
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