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Haiti wants major camp evacuated ahead of storm

Last updated Wednesday, November 3, 2010 - 9:22am

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- It was the jewel of Haiti's post-earthquake recovery: an organized relocation camp with thousands of tents billed as hurricane-resistant, lined up in neat rows on graded mountain soil.

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US missionary convicted in Haiti, but free to go

Jonathan M. Katz The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 17, 2010 - 7:55pm

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The last of 10 Americans detained while trying to take 33 children out of Haiti following the Jan. 12 earthquake was released Monday after a judge convicted her and sentenced her to the time she had already served in jail.

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(The Associated Press) U.S. missionary Laura Silsby (top) speaks during an audience at a courthouse in Port-au-Prince on Thursday. On the first day of her trial a prosecutor said Silsby should spend six months in prison for her failed attempt to remove 33 children from Haiti following the Jan. 12 earthquake.

Haiti prosecutors urge prison for US missionary

Jonathan M. Katz The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 7:16pm

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- A U.S. missionary should spend six months in prison for her failed attempt to remove 33 children from Haiti following the Jan. 12 earthquake, a prosecutor said Thursday on the first day of her trial.

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(The Associated Press) First lady Michelle Obama (left) and Haiti's first lady Elisabeth Debrosse greet children at a center for displaced children in Port-au-Prince, Tuesday.

Michelle Obama visits earthquake-ravaged Haiti

Jonathan M. Katz The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 6:52pm

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- First lady Michelle Obama made a surprise visit Tuesday to the ruins of the Haitian capital, a high-profile reminder that hundreds of thousands remain in desperate straits three months after the earthquake.

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(The Associated Press) Injured people sit along Delmas road the day after an earthquake struck Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Haiti quake: thousands feared dead, many trapped

Jonathan M. Katz The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 14, 2010 - 5:33pm

SLIDESHOW: See pictures of the damage the earthquake caused

SLIDESHOW: See pictures of the earthquake survivors

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti â€” 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 Haitiâ€™s devastating earthquake could reach into the tens of thousands.

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