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05/13/11 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - The musician Michel Martelly will be sworn in as Haiti's new president Saturday in front of the collapsed National Palace and a shantytown filled with thousands of people displaced by last year's earthquake - two stark reminders of the challenges faced by the neophyte politician.
05/27/10 Randal Perkins, the chief executive of South Florida's AshBritt, stood before Haiti's ruined National Palace - with its crumbled columns and shattered domes - watching two of his yellow excavators sift through the rubble.
01/25/10 Aid groups will work off of an existing plan for Haiti's development to help the country recover from a devastating earthquake, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Monday, while Haitian President Rene Preval, who lost his house in the disaster, made plans to move into a tent on the lawn of the destroyed National Palace.
01/16/10 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.
01/14/10 Haitians stacked bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after the strongest earthquake in more than a century hit the Caribbean island, crushing thousands of structures, from schools and shacks to the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters, and killing thousands.
01/13/10 Three medical missionaries from the Keene area only ?felt tremors? and were not injured when an enormous earthquake hit Haiti on Tuesday. More on the quake, from Haiti and NH: The picture at left is a May 20, 2004 file photo provided by the Canadian Department of National Defence of the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. At right is the palace as it looks today following yesterday's ...
01/13/10 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP/1010 WINS) -- The strongest earthquake in more than 200 years rocked Haiti on Tuesday, January 12, 2010, collapsing a hospital and heavily damaging the National Palace, U.N. peacekeeper headquarters and other buildings.
01/13/10 Cheri Cecil and Emily Cox, both of Fairfield, left Haiti Tuesday just before the strongest earthquake to hit the poor Caribbean nation in more than 200 years crushed thousands of structures, from schools and shacks to the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters.
01/13/10 Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after the strongest earthquake in more than 200 years to hit the Caribbean island crushed thousands of structures, from schools and shacks to the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters. Untold numbers of people were still trapped.
01/13/10 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- Haitians piled bodies along the devastated streets of their capital Wednesday after a powerful earthquake crushed thousands of structures, from schools and shacks to the National Palace and the U.N. peacekeeping headquarters. Untold numbers were still trapped.
01/13/10 The earthquake was the strongest to rock Haiti in more than 200 years, collapsing a hospital where people screamed for help and heavily damaging the National Palace, U.N. peacekeeper headquarters and other buildings. An aid official described "total disaster and chaos."
01/13/10 A powerful earthquake struck Haiti's capital on Tuesday with withering force, toppling everything from simple shacks to the ornate National Palace and the headquarters of U.N. peacekeepers. The dead and injured lay in the streets even as strong aftershocks rippled through the impoverished Caribbean country.
01/13/10 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A powerful earthquake struck Haiti's capital on Tuesday with withering force, toppling everything from simple shacks to the ornate National Palace and the headquarters of United Nations peacekeepers.
01/13/10 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A powerful earthquake struck Haiti's capital on Tuesday with withering force, toppling everything from simple shacks to the ornate National Palace and the headquarters of U.N. peacekeepers. The dead and injured lay in the streets even as strong aftershocks rippled through the impoverished Caribbean country. Associated Press journalists based in Port-au-Prince said ...
01/13/10 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - The strongest earthquake in more than 200 years rocked Haiti on Tuesday, collapsing a hospital where people screamed for help and heavily damaging the National Palace, U.N. peacekeeper headquarters and other buildings.
01/13/10 A powerful earthquake struck Haiti's capital on Tuesday with withering force, toppling everything from simple shacks to the ornate National Palace and the headquarters of U.N. peacekeepers.
01/13/10 Teams of rescue and aid workers were rushing to Haiti on Wednesday to assess damage from a powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake that crippled the island nation, severing communications with the outside world and crumbling countless buildings, including the historic National Palace.
01/13/10 Port-Au-Prince, Haiti -- A powerful earthquake struck Haiti's capital on Tuesday with withering force, toppling everything from simple shacks to the ornate National Palace. The dead and injured lay in the streets even as strong aftershocks rippled through the impoverished Caribbean country.
01/13/10 A powerful earthquake struck Haiti's capital on Tuesday with withering force, toppling everything from simple shacks to the ornate National Palace and the headquarters of U.N. peacekeepers. The dead and injured lay in the streets even as strong aftershocks rippled through the impoverished Caribbean country.
01/13/10 A powerful earthquake struck Haiti's capital with withering force, toppling everything from simple shacks to the ornate National Palace.
01/13/10 A powerful earthquake struck Haiti's capital on Tuesday with withering force, toppling everything from simple shacks to the ornate National Palace. The dead and injured lay in the streets even as strong aftershocks rippled through the impoverished Caribbean country. |