Saturday, January 23, 2010

Disaster In Haiti -- News Updates January 23, 2010

Bono and Rihanna perform at the Hope for Haiti Now telethon. (MJ Kim / Hope for Haiti Now / January 22, 2010)

Haiti Quake Made Gap Between Rich And Poor Even Bigger -- McClatchy News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti &nmdash; In the highest hills of Petionville, above the ruined Haitian capital, there are no dead in the streets. There is no rubble.

The earthquake that killed tens of thousands in the city below hardly touched the people of this wealthy neighborhood.

"Most of them chose to leave Haiti until the situation improves,'' said Jean Robert, 55, a worker who has been reinforcing walls in the posh neighborhood. "There are homes that have had damage. But they're few, and I don't think it's a problem. They'll build other ones.''

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More News On The Disaster In Haiti

Haiti Earthquake (Full Coverage) -- Yahoo News
Latest Updates on the Crisis in Haiti -- The Lede/New York Times
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
Haiti – All coverage -- Christian Science Monitor

UN: Haiti government calls off search and rescue -- Yahoo News/AP
Haiti ends quake rescue operations -- The Guardian
Search for survivors called off... just hours after two more people are pulled out alive -- The Daily Mail
Haiti earthquake: two last survivors after 10 days in rubble as rescue scaled back -- the Telegraph
Two Haitians saved from quake rubble after 10 days -- Yahoo News/AFP
In Haiti, 21-year-old man and elderly woman pulled from rubble 10 days after earthquake -- Canadian Press
Call for halt to Haiti adoptions over traffickers -- Times Online
Haitians to mourn Catholic leader killed in quake -- Yahoo News/Reuters
Haiti cruise stops: 'Without this, we don't eat' -- Yahoo News/AP
U.S. troops to help oversee Haiti ports, roads in earthquake relief -- Washington Post
In Haiti, 82nd Airborne struggles to cope with survivors' needs -- Christian Science Monitor
How has the earthquake affected the UN mission in Haiti? -- BBC
The Distant Memories of Haiti Before the Quake -- Time Magazine
Haiti's Signal FM: The Little Radio Station that Could -- Time Magazine

George Clooney leads Haiti telethon -- The Telegraph
Shining moments in Haiti telethon -- L.A. Times
Celebrities Go Low-Key, and Sometimes Nameless, in the Haiti Telethon -- New York Times
Stars shine in Hope for Haiti telethon -- CBC
In pictures: 'Hope for Haiti' -- BBC

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