Disaster In Haiti -- News Updates January 16, 2010

Haiti Earthquake: Death Toll May Hit 200,000 -- The Telegraph

Anger has turned to violence on the streets of Haiti as survivors lose patience with the painfully slow process of getting international aid after the earthquake that authorities say may have killed 200,000 people.

Haiti's shell-shocked government gave the United States control over its main airport to bring order to aid flights from around the world and speed relief to the impoverished Caribbean nation.

Trucks piled with corpses have been carrying bodies to hurriedly excavated mass graves outside the city but thousands of bodies still are believed buried under rubble.

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More News On The Disaster In Haiti

Haiti Earthquake (Full Coverage) -- Yahoo News
Full Coverage from CBS News -- CBS News
Haiti Earthquake (Full Coverage) -- BBC
Haiti earthquake: News updates -- CNN
Haiti earthquake updates -- The Telegraph
Live: Haiti earthquake - latest updates -- Times Online
Haiti Updates -- The Guardian

Officials work to speed aid to devastated Haitians -- Yahoo News/AP
Fear and hunger as aid trickles onto Haiti streets -- Yahoo News/AFP
Haiti relief work in high gear as rescue teams work round the clock -- Christian Science Monitor
Aid Surge Gets Going in Haiti -- L.A. Times
Across Haiti towns demolished, isolated -- McClatchy
'Apocalypse in the streets' -- The Age
Tensions Mount In Haiti Amid Plea For Aid -- Sky News
Dead U.N. workers were fond of their life in Haiti -- Washington Post
In Earthquake-ravaged Haiti, Daunting Challenges Hobble Relief Efforts -- Washington Post
Time Running Out on Haiti Survivors -- Wall Street Journal
Relief Groups Seek Alternative Routes to Get Aid Moving -- New York Times
Into an Angry Land: The Land Route Into Ravaged Haiti -- Time Magazine
For the Trapped, Rescue Is but the First Hurdle -- New York Times
Patience Wears Thin as Haiti’s Desperation Grows -- New York Times
Despite tensions, Cuba opens airspace to US flights -- Christian Science Monitor
Haiti earthquake: President Preval says country like a war zone -- The Telegraph
Haiti’s Government Is in Ruins, Too, but Struggles to Exhume Itself -- New York Times
Will Criminal Gangs Take Control in Haiti's Chaos? -- Time Magazine
Administration to Allow Haitians in U.S. Illegally to Stay for 18 Months -- Washington Post
Haiti earthquake in pictures: Shell-shocked survivors roam streets scavenging for scraps -- The Daily Mail

Plane shortage keeps Fort Bragg soldiers from Haiti -- McClatchy
Pentagon defends response time of Haiti aid efforts -- Christian Science Monitor
The U.S. Military in Haiti: A Compassionate Invasion -- Time Magazine
U.S. Diverts Spy Drone from Afghanistan to Haiti -- The Danger Room

UN launches $560 million appeal for Haiti aid -- Yahoo News/AP
U.S. texting raises $11 million for Haiti -- Yahoo News/Reuters
Port-au-Prince, Haiti: From George Clooney to Lance Armstrong, celebrities tap star power to urge giving -- Christian Science Monitor
Clooney, MTV lead Haiti TV benefit -- L.A. Times
11 networks to air telethon to help Haiti victims -- Chicago Sun Times

Haiti Earthquake: How You Can Help -- FOX News
AT&T enables $10 text message donations to Haiti -- Business Week
Haiti Quake: How You Can Help -- CBS News
How You Can Help the Earthquake Victims -- ABC News

Wyclef Jean's Haiti Tweets Galvanizing Web -- CBS News
Earthquake in Haiti: Celebrities and fans respond on Twitter [Updated] -- The Envelope
Twitter provides a conduit for news from quake-devastated Haiti -- Mercury News
Good Haitian Tweet aggregators are here, here, and here. (Hat Tip: Foreign Policy)
Haiti Twitter Coverage -- Twitter

Haiti: What We’re Getting Into -- Center For Defense Studies
Don't Let Haiti Return to the Status Quo -- Stephen Johnson, Wall Street Journal
After the earthquake, how to rebuild Haiti from scratch -- Jeffery Sachs, Washington Post