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Haiti survivors reluctant to relocatePort-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 26, 2010 Government plans to relocate hundreds of thousands of Haitians out of makeshift camps to new temporary shelters have been greeted with suspicion by a disorientated and destitute population. An estimated one million people were left homeless two weeks ago by the 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti, the worst natural disaster on record anywhere in the Americas. There has already been an exodus of more than 235,000 people, roughly one in 10, from the decimated capital. Port-au-Prince had acc ... read more |
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Thousands of tourists stranded at Machu PicchuLima (AFP) Jan 26, 2010 Peru was Tuesday conducting an airlift evacuation of more than 2,500 foreign tourists trapped in and around its famed Machu Picchu ruins by rain and mudslides that killed at least seven people. The operation, which began Monday, had rescued 125 of the foreigners by late Tuesday, emergency services said. Most of them were waiting by a helipad near the ruins themselves, though 670 were blocked on the Inca Trail, a narrow Andean pathway up to Machu Picchu that takes four days to complete and which ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 26, 2010Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday staunchly defended the American response to Haiti's earthquake, lashing out at foreign critics and calling the US military vital to the relief effort. Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi quickly issued a statement praising American efforts, hoping to defuse a row after one of his ministers accused the US of weak leadership in the tragedy tha ... more  
Bucharest (AFP) Jan 26, 2010A deep freeze gripping Europe claimed more lives Tuesday as record low temperatures combined with snow and ice to disrupt travel, close schools and trigger emergency measures. Ten people died of cold in Poland, a police spokeswoman said Tuesday, after 11 on Sunday, raising the death toll since November to 212 - mainly homeless men - while around 5,000 homes in the south were without electr ... more  
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 26, 2010The emergency medical period in Haiti will probably last another three months as many of the wounded will need regular care for some time, a leading US surgeon said Tuesday. The emergency phase will be "probably two to three months," said Chris Jobe, the head of orthopedic surgery at Loma Linda University of southern California. Volunteer doctors have treated thousands of people since th ... more |
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Merchants risk their lives in post-quake HaitiPort-Au-Prince (AFP) Jan 26, 2010 Merchants in the Haitian capital lost relatives and goods in the devastating January 12 quake that ripped through their city. Now they risk their lives trying to protect what little they have left. One of them was Maria del Carmen Gonzalez, who directed a team of sweat-drenched men Monday as they frantically loaded a rickety truck with air conditioning units from her quake-damaged store. "The people that broke into my store yesterday are the same ones helping me load this truck today," the dimin ... read more |
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