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Many Haitians want U.S. to ‘take over’

American officials try to lower expectations about extent of U.S. role in rebuilding efforts in Haiti.

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US to resume airlifts of Haiti quake victims

PORT-AU-PRINCE: The United States said on Sunday it will resume airlifting critically injured earthquake victims from Haiti after a row over who would pay for their care halted flights. The news emerg…

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US Christian group arrested in Haiti on child trafficking charges

PORT-AU-PRINCE – Haitian police detained 10 members of a US Christian group after they allegedly tried to leave the country with more than 30 children who survived the country’s devastating earthquake.News of the charges came as the UN’s food agen…

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Baptist group denies trafficking in Haitian kids

The director of the charity now watching 33 Haitian children that a church group had tried to leave Haiti with tells NBC that one child says she still has parents.
 

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Haiti holds Americans accused of smuggling children (AFP)

AFP – Haitian police detained 10 members of a US Christian charity group after they allegedly tried to leave the country with more than 30 children who survived the country’s devastating earthquake.

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Haiti detains Americans taking kids across border

Ten Americans from a church group were being held Sunday in Haiti after they tried to bus 33 children out of the country, just as stories of possible child trafficking are being told in the country.

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U.S. military flights of Haiti injured to restart

The White House said Sunday that military flights of critically injured Haitians will resume soon after assurances were given that hospitals have the capacity to deal with them.
 

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Haitian child quake victims flown to US for care

Doctors skirted a bureaucratic logjam to save the life of three critically ill child victims of Haiti's earthquake on Sunday, flying them to U.S. hospitals on a private jet to avoid a military suspens…

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Idaho Pastor Defends Church Members Held in Haiti

MERIDIAN, Idaho — An Idaho pastor condemned child trafficking as a 'wicked and evil practice,' defending members of his congregation detained in Haiti after they tried to bus 33 children into the…

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Workers in Haiti hand out ‘women only’ food coupons

Relief workers began handing out women-only food coupons Sunday, launching a new phase of what they hope will be less cutthroat aid distribution to ensure that families and the weak get supplies following Haiti’s devastating earthquake.

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