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Agence France-PresseJanuary 13, 2010 7:04 AM A Haitian woman is covered in rubble, Jan. 12, 2010 in Port-au-Prince after a huge earthquake measuring 7.0 rocked the impoverished Caribbean nation of Haiti. Photograph by: Daniel Morel/AFP/Getty Images, WASHINGTON -- World governments and aid agencies mobilized emergency rescue teams and supplies for Haiti Wednesday after a massive 7.0 earthquake that flattened buildings with hundreds feared dead. President Barack Obama said the United States stood "ready to assist" the impoverished Caribbean nation and U.S. authorities had begun assessing...
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The afternoon sky is framed by the Ambacang Hotel which fell apart, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009 in Padang, Indonesia, three days after Wednesday's 7.6-magnitude quake that toppled thousands of buildings on Sumatra island.
A man carries an injured child outside Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010 after the strongest earthquake in more than 200 years struck Haiti.
Indonesian rescue workers remove a body from the Amberchang Hotel which collapsed in Wednesday's earthquake, in the Sumatran Island city of Padang, Indonesia, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2009.
People walk past a crushed car and other rubble in Port-au-Prince on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010 after the largest earthquake ever recorded in Haiti
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Bas-Ravine, in the northern part of Cap-Haitien. Haiti has remained the least-developed country in the Americas. It is an impoverished country, one of the world's poorest and least developed.
Edeline B. Clermont weeps in the "Little Haiti" area of Miami on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010 as she talks to her sister in Boston after both were unable to contact relatives in Haiti after hearing news about the earth the 7.0 magnitude earthquake that shook the island.
earthquake
A destroyed building near the Hotel Villa Creole in Port-au-Prince is seen on Tuesday, Jan. 12, 2010 after the strongest earthquake in more than 200 years struck Haiti.
Phil Army UN peacekeeping force
UNAMID peacekeepers patrol a road at the Abu Shouk refugee camp, near the Darfur town of al-Fasher, Sudan, Thursday, March 26, 2009.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) meets with Rene Garcia Preval, President of Haiti at the National Palace in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (mb1)
Residents of French Caribbean department Guiana line to cast their ballots for the referendum for more autonomy from France in Cayenne, French Guiana, Sunday Jan. 10, 2010.
The aftermath of the Dec. 26 tsunami which destroyed Banda Aceh, Sumatra, Indonesia. U.S. Military personnel are assisting local authorities using helicopters to transport supplies, bringing in disaster relief teams, and to support humanitarian airlifts
Cecelia Malango has spent the past five years at the Mangem IDP centre
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