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Haiti raises earthquake's death toll to 230,000 (AP)

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L.A. mudslide areas evacuated as new storm hits

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UN vows to stop giving out free medicine to any Haitian hosp

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A glance at developments 28 days after Haiti quake (AP)

news-yahoo Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:37:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Angelina Jolie[1];

AP - A look at the latest developments in Haiti on Tuesday, 28 days after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake devastated the capital, Port-au-Prince:...

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Haitian rescued 27 days after quake

irishtimes Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:28:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Darlene Etienne[1]; Rory Carroll[1];

A HAITIAN man who has been pulled alive from rubble in Port-au-Prince may have been trapped since an earthquake devastated the city 27 days ago....

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Jolie tours stricken Haiti

iol Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:16:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Sean Penn[1]; Andrej Mahecic[1]; Brad Pitt[1]; Dario Contreras[1]; Angelina Jolie[1]; Sandra Bullock[1]; Leonel Fernandez[1];

Other categories: TREN-Security; UNbodies;

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Dario Contreras said: "She talked to several children and to a Haitian woman who recognised her and asked her for help,"

Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie has toured Haiti in her capacity as a United Nations goodwill ambassador to assess the needs of earthquake survivors there....

LA mudslide areas evacuated as new storm hits

iol Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:16:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Dan Whitcomb[1];

California authorities have issued mandatory evacuation orders for 527 homes north of Los Angeles, where mudslides damaged dozens of houses in upscale neighbourhoods this weekend....

Angelina Jolie visits quake-hit Haiti

abs-cbnnews Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:15:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Sean Penn[1]; Andrej Mahecic[1]; Brad Pitt[1]; Dario Contreras[1]; Angelina Jolie[2]; Sandra Bullock[1]; Leonel Fernandez[1];

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Dario Contreras said: "She talked to several children and to a Haitian woman who recognized her and asked her for help,"

PORT-AU-PRINCE – Angelina Jolie visited earthquake victims in Haiti on Tuesday in her latest trip to help survivors of conflict and natural disaster as a goodwill envoy for a United Nations agency....

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Body of missing Air Force major found in Haiti

newschannel5 Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:06:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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The body of a U.S. Air Force officer visiting Haiti at the time of last month's earthquake has been found in the rubble of a hotel in the country's devastated capital....

Health Crisis in Haiti Enters a Deadly New Phase

ABCnews Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:05:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Chris Lewis[1]; Marie Laurence Jocelyn Lassègue[1];

Other categories: Echo; CommunicableDiseases; CommunicableDiseaseOutbreaks;

Health crisis in Haiti enters new stage: Deaths from diarrhea, infections, malnutrition Medicine - Hospital - Health - Facilities - Haiti...

New Mudslides Loom in L.A. Foothills

CBSnews Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:00:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Angeles County[1]; Steve Whitmore[1]; Canada Flintridge[3]; San Gabriel[1]; San Gabriel Mountains[1];

541 Homes Ordered Evacuated; Those Who Refuse to Go Must Sign Waivers Acknowledging Grave Risk...

Haiti Raises Death Toll to 230,000

CBSnews Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:00:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Marie Laurence Jocelyn Lassègue[1];

Other categories: CommunicableDiseaseOutbreaks;

More Bodies Remain Uncounted from Earthquake; New Figure Gives Same Death Toll as 2004 Asian Tsunami...

New drugs blow to Haiti aid effort

channelnewsasia Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:58:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Angelina Jolie[1];

PORT-AU-PRINCE: The World Health Organisation (WHO) stopped Tuesday providing free drugs to private clinics and NGOs in Haiti after reports patients were being charged, potentially dealing a big blow to the already stumbling aid effort....

Hrant and ‘justice’ being ridiculed

TurkishDailyNews Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:58:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Kemal Türkler[1]; Uğur Mumcu[1]; Abdi Ipekci[1]; Hrant Dink[5]; Ogün Samast[1]; Adalet Ağaoğlu[1];

As the Hrant Dink murder case proceeds in shambolic fashion, it is becoming clear that no justice will come out of the courtroom and that Dink is merely being ridiculed....

UN slams Haitian hospitals for charging patients

ngrguardiannews Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:58:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Angelina Jolie[1];

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 UN slams Haitian hospitals for charging patients T HE United Nations has threatened to cut off shipments of free medicine to any Haitian hospitals that it finds are charging patients. Also, it said aid groups in Pakistan, would need nearly $538 million over the next six.......

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Strip club raises money for Haiti

dailytimesPK Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:48:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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A US strip club has raised almost $1,000 for earthquake victims by staging a charity ‘Lap dances for Haiti’ event. Marilyn’s on Monroe, in Toledo, Ohio, donated all of its $10 cover charges for one day to the International Services of Hope charity. The name of the event was misleading - strip clubs.......

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Jolie to visit Haiti

NewsJang-en Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:42:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Brad Pitt[1]; Gonzalo Vargas[1]; Mario Vargas Llosa[3]; Dario Contreras[1]; Sybella Wilkes[1]; Angelina Jolie[1]; Héctor Quezada[1];

Other categories: Echo; UNbodies;

GENEVA: Movie star Angelina Jolie is due to arrive in quake-struck Haiti late on Tuesday, the UN refugee agency said, a day after she visited Haitian...

Haitian Economic Development Foundation Announces that Electricite d'Haiti, the Government-Owned Electric Utility, has Restored Power to Section of Po

earthtimes Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:40:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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Other categories: Development;

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Haitian Economic Development Foundation today announced that Electricite d'Haiti, the government-owned electric utility, has restored electrical ......

Health crisis in Haiti enters a deadly new phase (AP)

news-yahoo Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:36:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Chris Lewis[1]; Marie Laurence Jocelyn Lassègue[1];

Other categories: Echo; UNbodies; CommunicableDiseases; CommunicableDiseaseOutbreaks;

AP - Fourteen-month-old Abigail Charlot survived Haiti's cataclysmic earthquake but not its miserable aftermath. Brought into the capital's General Hospital with fever and diarrhea, little Abigail literally dried up....

Haiti earthquake survivor Evan Muncie trapped under rubble for 27 days

sundaytimes Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:28:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Darlene Etienne[1]; Park Seung[1];

A 28-year-old victim of the Haiti earthquake was beginning the long journey back to health yesterday after enduring nearly four weeks pinned under rubble....

Day after, avalanche hits another Army post, kills 1

indiatimes Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:25:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Mohammed Yusuf[1];

Kashmir Valley’s snow-related death toll mounted to 20 in two days, as two security personnel and a civilian were killed in separate incidents on Tuesday....

Catholic Church Works To Rebuild After Loss In Haiti

NPRnews Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:20:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Serge Miot[1]; Michel Martin[1]; Joseph Serge Miot[1];

Other categories: EMF_Health;

The Catholic Church is trying to rebuild in Haiti after last month's devastating earthquake, which killed many of its church members. Father Andrew Small works for the U.S Conference of Catholic Bishops, which has already donated equipment and money to restart the Catholic radio station in Port-au-Prince....

Career Colleges Join Haiti Relief Efforts

earthtimes Wednesday, February 10, 2010 12:10:00 AM CET | info More about this article...

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Career College Association (CCA) and its members have donated over $250,000 toward relief efforts for Haiti so far.......

Avalanche kills eight soldiers in Siachen

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LAHORE: At least eight soldiers of the Pakistan Army embraced martyrdom when an avalanche hit a military camp at Bevan sector of Siachen, a TV channel reported on Tuesday. The bodies of the martyred were pulled out of the avalanche, and they will be laid to rest in their hometowns with complete military honours, the channel said....

12 killed as rains, snow pummel NWFP, Kashmir

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SHINKARI/MIRPUR: Avalanches, landslides and the severe cold following by heavy rains and snow claimed 12 lives in the northern parts of the country on Tuesday. A 12-year-old girl was killed when an avalanche destroyed her house in Tahal area of Kohistan district....

64 feared dead in avalanches in Afghanistan

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Entities: Rahim Wardak[1]; Hamid Karzai[1]; Abdel Rahim[1]; Hanif Atmar[1];

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Hanif Atmar said: “It happened all of a sudden and it took us by surprise,”

* Over 400 injured, 2,500 people rescued from snow-blocked vehicles KABUL: At least 60 people may have been killed as rescue workers evacuated 430 injured after massive avalanches roared down a mountain pass north of Kabul on Tuesday. Search and rescue teams recovered 24 bodies, but another 40.......

Haiti raises earthquake's death toll to 230,000; more bodies still uncounted

HonululuAdvetrtiser Tuesday, February 9, 2010 11:59:00 PM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Marie Laurence Jocelyn Lassègue[1];

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Haiti's government has raised the death toll for the Jan. 12 earthquake to 230,000 from 212,000 and says more bodies remain uncounted....

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Battle to heal minds in Haiti

caribseek Tuesday, February 9, 2010 11:42:00 PM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Lynne Jones[1];

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Lynne Jones said: "It's not about immediate psychological counseling,"

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The battered bodies may be mending, but the minds still struggle....

17:14 Pacific Islands Deman...

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Entities: Noeleen Heyzer[1];

Other categories: FoodSafety;

09 de febrero de 2010, 17:14 United Nations, Feb 9 (Prensa Latina) A total of fourteen islands in the Pacific Ocean demanded on Tuesday compliance with aid commitments made by the international community to confront the impact of the economic crisis and recent natural disasters....

LA-area foothills under mudslide threat (AP)

news-yahoo Tuesday, February 9, 2010 11:36:00 PM CET | info More about this article...

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Entities: Angeles County[1]; Steve Whitmore[1]; San Gabriel Mountains[1]; Robert Jablon[1]; Canada Flintridge[4]; San Gabriel[1];

AP - Homeowners in mud-ravaged foothill towns north of Los Angeles packed their cars and left Tuesday as evacuation orders took hold and a new winter storm arrived....

Kashmir avalanche kills Indian soldiers

australianetworknews Tuesday, February 9, 2010 11:36:00 PM CET | info More about this article...

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Michael Edwards, New Delhi Last Updated: Tue, 9 Feb 2010 13:52:00 +1100 At least 11 Indian soldiers are dead after an avalanche hit a training base in Indian-administered Kashmir. The avalanche hit the Indian army's High Altitude Warfare School in northwest Kashmir, a mountainous region near the border with Pakistan....

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