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Associated Press via Yahoo! News - 6 minutes ago
OTTAWA - It will take Haiti the better part of three decades to become a middle income country on par with its Caribbean island neighbour, the Dominican Republic, says the top U.S. official on the file.
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ABC News - Sun May 27, 3:56 pm ET
Haiti begins cash transfer social program to target 100,000 families
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Miami Herald - Sat May 26, 3:55 pm ET
Physically ripped and emotionally expansive, the Haitian dance troupe Ayikodans returned to Miami and the Adrienne Arsht Center on Friday evening. The swell of emotion that surrounded the troupe’s performance there a year ago, as community leaders gathered to support a company on the verge of collapse after the Haitian earthquake, has leveled off somewhat. And that made it easier to look at the ...
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Boston Globe - Sun May 27, 6:58 am ET
By Carolyn Y. Johnson, Globe StaffThe catastrophic, 7.0-magnitude earthquake that devastated Haiti Tuesday afternoon occurred in a region long known...
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Yahoo! Sports - Fri May 25, 1:37 pm ET
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) A local sports hero, a New York real estate developer and a well-known architect are teaming up to build a soccer stadium in Haiti's notorious Cite Soleil, hoping to revive the seaside shantytown known throughout the hemisphere for its extreme poverty and gang battles.
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KSL Salt Lake City - Sun May 27, 12:42 am ET
It's been over two years since the earthquake hit Haiti that killed over 300,000 people and left close to 1 million homeless.
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The Danville Commercial-News - Sun May 27, 2:14 am ET
Janis Ostiguy of Danville experiences many emotions each time she visits Haiti — sadness at the poverty, happiness with the children, warmth for the people and their spirit.
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The Michigan City News-Dispatch - 2 hours 26 minutes ago
LA PORTE COUNTY — As if extreme poverty, cholera and earthquakes weren't enough; Haiti, already the poorest nation in the Western Hemisphere, now is rocked by a wave of violence.
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Associated Press via Yahoo! News - Thu May 24, 6:31 pm ET
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - A United Nations official says that people in Haiti are dying from cholera because funding to stem the disease is drying up.
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Bromsgrove Standard - 1 hour 29 minutes ago
AN INSPIRATIONAL woman from Bromsgrove is going to swim more than five miles non-stop to raise money for Haiti, following the devasting earthquake in 2010.
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7 News Miami - Sat May 26, 11:49 pm ET
MIAMI (WSVN) -- A Haitian contemporary dance company received some hope after heartache thanks to a local arts center. The Adrienne Arsht Center lent a helping hand to the Ayikodans Dance Company.
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Miami Herald - Fri May 25, 8:02 pm ET
Carl Pierre-Louis, who survived Haiti’s devastating earthquake, didn’t know what football was when he started at Felix Varela High School. Now, he’s on his way with a football scholarship.
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The Jamaica Observer - Thu May 24, 12:52 pm ET
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Police in Haiti are investigating the killing of a Swiss woman whose beaten body turned up in the back seat of a Jeep in northern Haiti.
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AFP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours 36 minutes ago
Mexican Carlos Reygadas, whose puzzling "Post Tenebras Lux" bagged him best director prize at Cannes on Sunday, is a darling of the festival that has showcased all four of his often impenetrable films.
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New York Times - Fri May 25, 1:14 pm ET
During scores of trips to Haiti, Maggie Steber decided she had to find the country's quiet moments. A new Web site showcases her 25-year search for beauty there.