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• Quake workers in Haiti rescue living, mourn dead (AP)
• Hunger and hope, thirst and frenzy grip Haiti (AP)
• Clinton lands in Haiti, pledges cooperative effort (AP)
• Haitians search desperately for missing relatives (AP)
• UN: Body of top UN envoy in Haiti found (AP)
• After the Destruction: What Will It Take to Rebuild Haiti? (Time.com)
• Poverty is world's biggest problem: BBC poll (AFP)
• Iraq reclaims a Jewish history it once shunned (AP)
• Haiti's leaders struggle for post-quake control (AP)
• Senegal offers land to Haitians that want to come (AP)
• Afghan lawmakers reject Cabinet nominees (AP)
• Canada to speed up Haitian immigration requests (Reuters)
• Bali victim's father questions Washington trial (AP)
• Obama taps former Presidents Clinton and Bush for Haiti relief fund (McClatchy Newspapers)
• Haiti earthquake relief: Voices in rubble drive one rescue team (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Helping Haiti: The U.S. Navy Is Ready, But Aid Is Not (Time.com)
• Rush to Aid Haiti's Earthquake Victims (OneWorld.net)

Quake workers in Haiti rescue living, mourn dead (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 05:10 PM PST AP - All rescuers saw of Saint-Helene Jean-Louis when they arrived at the collapsed University of Port-au-Prince building were the top of her head and her left hand.

Hunger and hope, thirst and frenzy grip Haiti (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 04:37 PM PST AP - Precious water, food and early glimmers of hope began reaching parched and hungry earthquake survivors Saturday on the streets of this shattered city, where despair at times turned into a frenzy among the ruins.

Clinton lands in Haiti, pledges cooperative effort (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 03:36 PM PST AP - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met Saturday with Haitian President Rene Preval and promised that U.S. quake relief efforts would be closely coordinated with local officials.

Haitians search desperately for missing relatives (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 04:44 PM PST AP - They wait outside crumbled schools or shattered markets, searching for sisters, fathers, children, lovers. They stand vigil at smashed buildings where sons were last known to be, or at tangles of concrete where their mothers once went shopping.

UN: Body of top UN envoy in Haiti found (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 03:10 PM PST AP - Rescuers recovered the body of veteran diplomat Hedi Annabi, who was in charge of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti when the earthquake struck and collapsed the U.N. headquarters building, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced Saturday.

After the Destruction: What Will It Take to Rebuild Haiti? (Time.com) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:20 PM PST Time.com - Earthquakes don't kill people. Bad buildings do. And Haiti had some of the worst buildings in the world. The quake shows the necessity of fixing that

Poverty is world's biggest problem: BBC poll (AFP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 04:12 PM PST AFP - Poverty is the most serious problem facing the world, according to a major worldwide poll out Sunday which put the issue well ahead of climate change, terrorism and war.

Iraq reclaims a Jewish history it once shunned (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 04:10 PM PST AP - It was seized from Jewish families and wound up soaking in sewage water in the basement of a secret police building. Rescued from the chaos that engulfed Baghdad as Saddam Hussein was toppled, it now sits in safekeeping in an office near Washington, D.C.

Haiti's leaders struggle for post-quake control (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 04:12 PM PST AP - With the National Palace uninhabitable and his own home destroyed, Haitian President Rene Preval is trying to run his country from a dilapidated police station near the heavily damaged national airport.

Senegal offers land to Haitians that want to come (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 02:52 PM PST AP - Senegal is offering free land to Haitians wishing to "return to their origins" following this week's devastating earthquake, which has destroyed the capital and buried thousands of people beneath rubble.

Afghan lawmakers reject Cabinet nominees (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 05:49 PM PST AP - Afghanistan's parliament has rejected more than half of President Hamid Karzai's second list of Cabinet nominees — including two of three women — dealing him a fresh political blow as his government struggles to face the growing Taliban threat.

Canada to speed up Haitian immigration requests (Reuters) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 05:31 PM PST Reuters - Canada will step up the processing of immigration applications from Haitians who have Canadian relatives as part of its aid effort following Haiti's devastating earthquake.

Bali victim's father questions Washington trial (AP) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:04 AM PST AP - An Australian lawyer whose son was killed in the 2002 Bali bombing said on Saturday that a trial in Washington of alleged terrorist Riduan Isamuddin could jeopardize chances of convicting him over the nightclub attacks that killed 202.

Obama taps former Presidents Clinton and Bush for Haiti relief fund (McClatchy Newspapers) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 11:08 AM PST McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama tapped former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton on Saturday to head a major fundraising effort to underwrite Haiti's long-term recovery, even as concerns grew about delivering life-saving aid to earthquake victims.

Haiti earthquake relief: Voices in rubble drive one rescue team (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 09:52 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Homes slapped together, offices and stores constructed with no building codes: The complete devastation of parts of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, is rooted in part in structural weaknesses that posed threats even before the quake hit. Now, rescuers are having to negotiate the consequences of substandard construction as they rush to save lives. For many of them, it's the most perilous task they’ve ever been assigned.

Helping Haiti: The U.S. Navy Is Ready, But Aid Is Not (Time.com) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 01:20 PM PST Time.com - The aircraft carrier Carl Vinson moves into place near Port-au-Prince is laden with choppers, but so far it has very little relief to distribute

Rush to Aid Haiti's Earthquake Victims (OneWorld.net) Posted: 16 Jan 2010 10:35 AM PST OneWorld.net - WASHINGTON, Jan 16 (OneWorld.net) - Individuals, aid organizations, and governments worldwide are rallying to aid the people of Haiti after Tuesday's devastating earthquake that has killed tens of thousands of people and crippled the infrastructure of the island nation, already the poorest in the western hemisphere.

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