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Thursday, January 28, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE: A French rescue team on Wednesday pulled a 16-year-old Haitian girl alive from under the rubble in Port-au-Prince 15 days after the devastating January 12 earthquake, they said. "She just said 'thank you,' she's very weak, which suggests that she's been there for 15 days," Commander Samuel Bernes of the rescue team told media. "She was in a pocket surrounded by concrete."

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 PORT AU PRINCE: The number of people killed in last week's devastating Haitian earthquake has risen to 75,000, while 250,000 were injured and a million left homeless, the Haitian government said Tuesday.

Sunday, January 17, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE: Four days after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake devastated Haiti, survivors are getting desperate for food and water. International relief efforts are slowed by blocked roads, limited equipment and a congested airport and scuffles are being reported over supplies. Meanwhile, rescuers continue to shovel through wreckage in search of survivors. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Haiti surveying the situation and meeting with the government and international officials. Haitian President Rene Preval has been urging donors to avoid squabbles. The U.S. military has taken over operations at the nation's main airport and relief flights have been stacked up. Over 100,000 have died in Haiti’s quake debacle. That's Haiti's prime minister's guess at where the death toll from Tuesday's massive earthquake will end up. He says the government alone has recovered 20,000 bodies, while independent agencies and relatives have colle...

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...

WASHINGTON: The death toll in the Haiti quake could top 100,000, Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive told a US news channel Wednesday. The final death toll could be "well over 100,000," the prime minister told the US television channel after his Caribbean nation was struck Tuesday by a 7.0 quake. "I hope that is not true, because I hope the people had the time to get out. Because we have so much people on the streets right now, we don't know exactly where they were living. "But so many, so many buildings, so many neighborhoods totally destroyed, and some neighborhoods we don't even see people, so I don't know where those people are."

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE: A major earthquake rocked Haiti, killing possibly thousands of people as it toppled the presidential palace and hillside shanties alike and left the Caribbean nation appealing for international help. A five-story U.N. headquarters building was also brought down by Tuesday's 7.0 magnitude quake, the most powerful to hit Haiti in more than 200 years according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Television footage from the capital, Port-au-Prince, showed scenes of chaos on the streets with people sobbing and appearing dazed amid the rubble. The presidential palace lay in ruins, its domes fallen on top of flattened walls. The quake's epicenter was only 10 miles (16 km) from Port-au-Prince. About 4 million people live in the city and surrounding area. Aftershocks as powerful as 5.9 rattled the city throughout the night and into Wednesday. Reports on casualties and damage were slow to emerge due to communication problems. French Fore...

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 AMMAN: Three Jordanian peacekeepers were killed and 21 wounded in the massive earthquake that rocked Haiti, the army said on Wednesday. "Major Atta Manasir, Major Asharf Jaiusi and Corporal Raed Khawaldeh of the Jordanian peacekeeping force in Haiti died (in) the earthquake that hit the area on Tuesday night," an army spokesman said in a statement. "Twenty-one other members of the armed forces were slightly injured in the quake." The spokesman gave no further details.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 BEIJING: Eight Chinese peacekeepers were buried in rubble and 10 others were missing after a massive earthquake in Haiti, China's state-run media reported Wednesday. The report followed the strongest earthquake in more than a century in the impoverished Caribbean nation on Tuesday, which toppled buildings including the headquarters of the UN mission.

Updated at: 0319 PST, Wednesday, January 13, 2010 PORT AU PRINCE: A quake measuring 7.3 on the moment magnitude scale shook the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti Tuesday, rocking the capital city, officials and media witnesses said. A US government agency has issued a tsunami warning for countries bordering the Caribbean sea, after a powerful 7.3 quake rocked Haiti. "This message applies to countries within and bordering the Caribbean sea," the Pacific Tsunami Warning center said, "except for Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands." A huge quake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti Tuesday toppling buildings and causing widespread damage and panic, officials and, media witnesses said. A tsunami alert was immediately issued for the Caribbean region after the earthquake struck at 2153 GMT. A correspondent said the ground shook for more than a minute. Just minutes later two aftershocks measuring both 5.9 and 5.5 on the moment ma...