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U.S. to resume Haiti medevac flights

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The U.S. government said on Sunday it would resume military evacuation flights to the United States for badly injured Haitian earthquake victims after a four-day suspension over cost and treatment questions.

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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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U.S. to resume medevac flights from Haiti

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The U.S. military will resume evacuation flights to the United States for critically injured Haitian earthquake victims within the next 12 hours, the White House said on Sunday.

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10 Americans arrested in Haiti for child trafficking

Port-au-Prince, Jan 31 (IANS) Ten US citizens were arrested in Haiti on the charges of trafficking 33 children from the earthquake-hit nation, Press TV reported Sunday.

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Finnair pitches in with aid for Haiti earthquake relief

Helsinki, Jan 31 (IANS) Nordic airline Finnair has started offering cargo facilities free of charge for carrying aid to earthquake-hit Haiti and is also planning to fly special planes carrying equipment and personnel to the nation's capital Port a…

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UN food agency raises aid for quake-hit Haiti

The UN World Food Programme has begun ramping up its operations in Haiti by opening 16 fixed food distribution sites offering supplies to some 2 million people affected by the massive earthquake in the capital, Port-au-Prince. Up until now the natu…

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10 Americans held for illegally trying to take children from Haiti

Port-au-Prince, Jan 31 (DPA) Haitian police arrested 10 US citizens Saturday for trying to take 33 children out of the country without permission, officials said.

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A glance at Haiti developments 18 days after quake

Tue., Jan 12: 4:53 p.m.: A killer quake of magnitude 7.0 strikes 10 miles west of Port-au-Prince, causing untold deaths, collapsing thousands of buildings, severing roads, putting the city's main seap…

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Doctor: Quake victims dying without US airlifts

U.S. Navy and Air Force personnel get ready to airlift a girl with head injuries to an offshore medical facility in Port-au-Prince, in this Jan.

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