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US activates Coast Guard reservists for HaitiWashington (AFP) Jan 19, 2010 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on Tuesday called up to 900 US Coast Guard reservists to duty to serve in Haiti following the devastating January 12 earthquake. President Barack Obama on Sunday issued an executive order authorizing the mobilization of military reserves to help quake-hit Haiti, particularly medical staff to work on hospital ships and Coast Guard sta ... read more |
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United Nations (AFP) Jan 15, 2010Donors ranging from the world's richest countries to individuals sending text messages have contributed massive aid for quake-stricken Haiti, but officials said Friday much more was needed. The UN said it planned an appeal for hundreds of millions of dollars, with the deeply poor country desperate for food and medical supplies and its shattered infrastructure making distribution of assistanc ... more 
Washington (AFP) Jan 15, 2010A nuclear-powered US aircraft carrier arrived in Haiti Friday, poised to deploy an arsenal of resources to aid the Haiti relief effort, amid rising anger that international help has been slow to arrive. The chief of US naval operations, Admiral Gary Roughead, said the massive USS Carl Vinson, equipped with 19 helicopters, a water-purification plant and carrying tons of medicines, was "in the ... more 
Washington (AFP) Jan 14, 2010President Barack Obama promised Haitians Thursday they would not be forgotten, offering 100 million dollars in immediate earthquake aid and the backing of every element of US power. A large-scale US military and civilian aid operation gained momentum with Washington sending rescue teams, ships, helicopters, planes, a floating hospital, emergency supplies and more than 5,000 ground troops. ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 13, 2010International medical charity Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF) struggled Wednesday to cope with a "massive influx" of survivors of the powerful earthquake in Haiti, many with severe injuries, a spokesman said. Patients with "severe traumas, head wounds, crushed limbs" have been streaming into temporary structures set up by MSF in and around Port-au-Prince, but the medical charity is only able ... more  
Paris (AFP) Jan 13, 2010The swine flu epidemic in mainland France that has killed hundreds has ended, a monitoring group of doctors said on Wednesday. "It's the end of the epidemic," Thierry Blanchon, one of the doctors of the Sentinelles flu monitoring network, told AFP. The number of cases of the fever reported to doctors has "fallen below the epidemic level for the past two weeks," he said. "The virus is cer ... more  
London (AFP) Jan 12, 2010Tony Blair's former chief spin doctor Alastair Campbell fiercely denied Tuesday "sexing up" a dossier which claimed Iraq could launch chemical or biological weapons within 45 minutes ahead of the 2003 war. In a defiant appearance before a public inquiry on the conflict, Campbell said that while the highly controversial document could have been "clearer", he still defended "every single word" ... more |
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