Thousands of Americans had to put their dream of Haitian adoption on hold while the Caribbean nation struggles to restore basic services and reunite families separated by the disaster.
With Haiti temporarily closed to new adoptions, some have turned elsewhere, to nations such as Ethiopia, China and Russia.
UNICEF estimates that more than 20,000 children lost their parents in the Jan. 12 quake and its aftermath.
Relatives or neighbors are caring for many of these children. Others, such as a group of boys in a Port-au-Prince park, are fending for themselves.
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http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124464928
The devastating earthquakes in Chile and Haiti this year have North American seismologists looking again at the potential for similar quakes here at home.
After all, the U.S. lies on several major fault lines, and has suffered strong earthquakes throughout its history.
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http://www.theweek.com/article/index/106947/Quake_watch_is_America_next
Friday marks one month since the January 12 earthquake shattered Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, killing 212,000 people.
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http://news.yahoo.com/video/world-15749633/haiti-one-month-after-quake-18110834
The world's leading industrialised nations have pledged to write off the debts that Haiti owes them, following a devastating earthquake last month.
Nearly three weeks after Haiti's devastating earthquake, the U.S.
State Department is still looking for 4,000 American citizens.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jose-antonio-vargas/the-web-wants-to-know-whe_b_443234.html
A man was pulled from rubble in Haiti's capital on Tuesday, two weeks after a 7.0-magnitude earthquake leveled much of the city, officials said.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/americas/01/26/haiti.earthquake/index.html?hpt=T1
"The public has set a new standard of giving for a relief telethon with 'Hope for Haiti Now,' and the donations continue to come in," Lisa Paulsen, president and CEO of the Entertainment Industry Foundation, said in a statement released Saturday.
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http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9641401
Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua say the US is using the international relief operation in Haiti as a cover-up for a military takeover.
As we celebarte Martin Luther King Day, let's reflect on what the cilvil rights leader might say about the devastating earthquake in Haiti as well as both the positive efforts and negative comments that followed in its wake.
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http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/01/17/what-would-martin-luther-king-say/
Two images, before and after.
Zoom in to view the decimation in Port-au-Prince, including its cathedral and shantytowns
President Obama has offered Haiti the United States' 'full support' after the island nation suffered an epic earthquake.
What he did not mention is America's generosity may come with a hefty price tag to U.S. taxpayers as the deficit mushrooms from the cost of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
With the first of its flights touching down in earthquake-devastated Haiti late Wednesday afternoon, the U.S. began deploying military planes, ships and ground troops to the Caribbean nation.
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http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/01/13/haiti.us.coast.guard/index.html
Your 'theological' nonsense is revolting.
Don't speak for Haiti, and don't speak for God. You never had much credibility -- but now it is all gone.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-raushenbush/go-to-hell-pat-robertson_b_422397.html
The poorly built homes, buildings and roads of Haiti were no match for the 7 magnitude quake that hit the country Tuesday afternoon.
Speaking to CNN En Espanol, the Haitian Ambassador to the US expressed that such as catastrophe "had been expected."
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http://newsjunkiepost.com/2010/01/12/haitian-mbassador-we-had-been-expecting-this-catastrophe/
