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South America leaders hold Haiti aid summit

BBC News: "South American leaders are holding a summit in the Ecuadorean capital, Quito, to discuss how to help Haiti recover from last month's earthquake. Haitian President Rene Preval is there to set out his country's needs and priorities to fellow leaders.

Food Used to Raise Awareness of Human Trafficking Threat to Haitians

Salvation Army and food-supplier Numana are teaming to distribute food to Haitians with warnings included to alert Haitians about human trafficking, and how to respond.

Numana Haiti-feeding events

Numana, Inc -- a new charity gathering food for Haiti, using volunteers to assemble it into prepackaged meals, and delivering it to Haiti through the Salvation Army. . Twitter page reporting their past, present & coming events, nationwide.

Haiti: Epidemic surveillance strengthened as reports of disease cases emerge

Intensive efforts are ongoing to detect potential disease outbreaks in earthquake-affected Haiti, and while there have been reports of acute respiratory infections and diarrhea, no outbreaks have been recorded.

Haitian Amputees Face Tough Future

As Haitian amputees heal from their initial injuries from the Jan. 12 quake, their long-term futures remain uncertain. Securing regular work and livelihoods may prove difficult, aid groups say, with physical limitations.

Saving Haiti's Mothers

Haiti's catastrophic earthquake, in addition to leaving lives and institutions in ruin, also exacerbated a longtime lethal risk in Haiti: Dying during childbirth.

Returning to Haiti. Tipping the scales of faith.

When I told my wife I wanted to go back to Haiti, she had the reaction I expected. "The girls really missed you when you were gone last time," she said. "I am worried that you lost too much weight down there," she added.

UNICEF warns against Haiti child smuggling

The head of UNICEF warned Tuesday that people may still be trying to smuggle children out of Haiti and said protecting youngsters who survived the earthquake is the top concern of the U.N. children's agency.

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Six undercover actors burst into song in a grocery (w/video)

" For our latest mission, six undercover actors burst into song in a grocery store in Queens. Three minutes and lots of silly choreography later, they returned to their roles as shoppers and stock boys. The mission was filmed with hidden robotic, lipstick, and wearable cameras.

Doctor says vendor may have been in rubble 27 days

The tale seems dubious: that a rice vendor survived 27 days trapped under the rubble of a flea market following Haiti's devastating earthquake.

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How Britain corrupts Africa and makes it poorer

So now we know – a little more. We always knew that in 2001 Britain's BAE systems sold Tanzania a £28 million air traffic control system. The World Bank and the International Civil Aviation Organisation said it was unnecessarily sophisticated and overpriced.

Physicists investigate structural properties of spider webs

"Although the orb web of a spider is a lightweight structure, it seems to be a highly optimized structure, presumably as a result of evolution from the Jurassic period or earlier," explain physicists Yuko Aoyananagi and Ko Okumura, who are investigating the structural properties  …

Migrating Insects Use Wind to Travel Efficiently at Speeds of up to 60 MPH

"Migrating insects have evolved to take advantage very efficiently of high speed winds (while you're stuck in traffic, butterflies whiz by at up to 60 MPH, possibly more) to travel hundreds of miles in relatively short periods of time, all that while correcting for crosswinds tak …

Boat of plastic bottles has trial sail

"A strange looking vessel took a leisurely sail on San Francisco Bay on Wednesday - a shakedown voyage for a plastic, fantastic adventure that should finally start next month

Haiti raises earthquake's death toll to 230,000

Haiti's government has raised the death toll for the Jan. 12 earthquake to 230,000 from 212,000 and says more bodies remain uncounted.

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UN: some Haitian hospitals are charging patients

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- The United Nations warned Monday that it will cut off shipments of free medicine to Haitian hospitals that charge patients, saying it had learned some are levying fees for drugs.

Man's Story of Survival Four Weeks After Haiti Quake Confounds Doctors

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The case of a Haitian man said to have been pulled alive from the rubble nearly a month after Haiti's earthquake amazed doctors on Tuesday, but his improbable story of survival also drew a note of skepticism.

The Haiti Earthquake: Science, Early Warning And Mitigation

When we experience disasters like the earthquake in Haiti January 2010, we naturally ask the questions: Could we have known (early warning)? Could we have been prepared (mitigation plans)?

Angelina Jolie visits quake-stricken Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AFP) – Hollywood starlet Angelina Jolie visited UN staff in Haiti on Tuesday and toured a children's refuge, nearly four weeks after the country was devastated by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake.

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Never mind the mule is blind, just load the wagon.

YouTube - In Focus Haiti: House Call in Hell - 2008 vid of Haitian National Penitentiary

This video takes you inside the walls of one of the worst prisons in the Western hemisphere. Overcrowding, poor sanitation, and a general lack of funding in Haiti's National Penitentiary have led to exorbitant HIV and Tuberculosis rates.

Haitian Police Officer claims U.S. missionaries had tried to take other Haitian kids

The officer, who did not want to be identified for fear of "reprisals", told CNN on Monday (2/8/10) that he had stopped the 10 Baptist missionaries, including group leader Laura Silsby, on January 26 as they tried to transport 40 children from Haiti to the Dominican Republic.

Nigeria footage: uniformed men shoot unarmed men

An international news channel is showing chilling footage of men in uniforms shooting unarmed men after they purportedly were arrested during clashes last year with Muslim militants in northern Nigeria.

Haiti relief suffers another setback

Aid efforts in Haiti have suffered another setback as the United Nation halts deliveries to some ten-thousand quake survivors after discovering that fake coupons are circulation.

Freeze on HIV spending sparks concern in Africa

A US decision to freeze spending on treatment for HIV in several African countries has prompted concern that some of the gains made against the AIDS epidemic since 2003 could be reversed.

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