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Thursday, January 14, 2010 MOSCOW: An airplane carrying search and rescue teams left Moscow Thursday for quake-devastated Haiti, as Russia pledged to send more aid including a field hospital and medical supplies, the local news agency reported. The first Il-76 airplane, which lifted off from Moscow at 0230 GMT, will "deliver a specially equipped car, rescuers and trained seeker dogs," the emergency situations ministry said. More airplanes will bring in a field hospital for 50 people "with surgical and diagnostic equipment as well as a blood lab", the ministry said. Planeloads of rescuers and relief supplies headed to Haiti on Wednesday as the world launched a massive relief operation a day after a massive earthquake struck near the capital Port-au-Prince which is feared to have killed more than 100,000 people.

Thursday, January 14, 2010 WASHINGTON: US Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Wednesday postponed a planned trip to Australia in order to help with the response to the recent earthquake in Haiti, a spokesman said.

Thursday, January 14, 2010 UNITED NATIONS: Former US president Bill Clinton, who is now the special envoy for the United Nations in Haiti, Wednesday launched a fund for the stricken nation saying even a dollar or two would help. "We got to save as many lives as possible," Clinton said. "So the most important thing individuals who care can do is to send cash even if it's a dollar or two." He was speaking at the UN General Assembly as the world body was rocked by the scale of the earthquake amid fears that the death toll could top 100,000. Clinton said water, food, shelter and medical supplies were all badly needed to help the people, particularly in the capital Port-au-Prince, which took the full force of Tuesday's 7.0 quake.

Thursday, January 14, 2010 WASHINGTON: The toll from the Haiti earthquake will be one of the highest losses of life in recent years, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said, after announcing she was cancelling a planned trip to the Pacific to concentrate on the crisis. "This is going to be one of the highest in terms of loss of life in recent years, as far as we can tell," Mrs Clinton said. Haiti's prime minister has said he fears the death toll from the 7.0 quake which struck Tuesday could reach 100,000. Mrs Clinton did not give a figure, but compared the tragedy to the Indian Ocean tsunami that killed more than 220,000 people five years ago. "The Indian Ocean tsunami was such a terrible tragedy and with such high loss of life. This will be a very high loss of life as well," she said. Mrs Clinton was due to travel to Australia, New Zealnd and Papua New Guinea. "I have decided to cancel the remainder of (my trip) and return to Washington," s...

Thursday, January 14, 2010 WASHINGTON: The United States launched a massive military and civilian operation on Wednesday to aid Haiti, as President Barack Obama vowed a swift and aggressive effort to save lives in the devastated capital, Port-au-Prince. Teams of civilian and military experts began landing in Haiti as US aircraft searched for survivors and tried to assess the damage from the massive 7.0 magnitude quake. As a wealthy neighbor with the world's most powerful military, the United States appeared well-placed to lead relief efforts for the impoverished Caribbean nation, mobilizing an array of specialists, ships, helicopters, planes and helicopters. "I have directed my administration to respond with a swift, coordinated and aggressive effort to save lives," Obama said at the White House. "Search and rescue teams from Florida, Virginia and California will arrive throughout today and tomorrow." At daylight, a US Navy P-3 maritime patrol aircra...