Jan 18 Monday's Headlines: Haiti Quake Victims Compete for Aid Six days after the massive earthquake in Haiti, a chaotic aid situation is continuing to plague quake victims in their search for basic needs. On Monday, thousands of troops, doctors and aid workers arrived to distribute much-needed relief for the… Continue reading
Jan 18 Watch Kabul Briefly Paralyzed by Bold Militant Assault The Afghan capital was paralyzed for hours Monday as militants laid siege to Kabul, detonating explosives, hurling grenades and engaging security forces in a fierce gun fight. Continue watching
Jan 18 Watch Relief Effort Improves in Haiti While Security Concerns Linger In an interview with Jeffrey Brown, U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Kenneth Merten discusses the pace of the relief effort in earthquake-ravaged Haiti, security concerns in the capital, and complaints about U.S. management at the Port-au-Prince airport. Continue watching
Jan 18 Watch Aid Groups Look to Break up Bottlenecks After Haiti Quake While 7,000 U.S. forces were scheduled to be in Haiti by the end of Monday, the U.N. is seeking to send additional peacekeepers to help break bottlenecks choking the aid effort. Jon Snow of ITN reports. Continue watching
Jan 18 Watch Six Days Without Sunlight: Woman Survives in Bank's Rubble The arrival of fresh aid was a welcome sight in Haiti on Monday, but aid workers struggled to get food, water, and medical supplies to survivors of last week's earthquake. Bill Neely of Independent Television News reports on one woman's… Continue watching
Jan 18 Haiti's History Is One of Pain and Perseverance By Talea Miller As Haiti confronts a disastrous earthquake -- which ravaged much of Port-au-Prince -- the country's history, politics and culture are coming to a new light, and may help shape how the country emerges from its latest trial. Continue reading
Jan 17 Obama Authorizes Military Reserves for Haiti Response By Talea Miller President Barack Obama Sunday issued an executive order mobilizing selected military reserves, including medical staff to work from hospital ships and Coast Guard personnel, to bolster aid efforts in Haiti. He wrote it is "necessary to augment the active Armed… Continue reading
Jan 17 In Haiti's Grim Landscape, Stories of Survival and Frustration By Larisa Epatko Hundreds of thousands of Haitians were still waiting desperately for aid Sunday, while rescue workers continued to pull people from collapsed buildings five days after an earthquake ravaged Port-au-Prince. World leaders vowed to help the impoverished nation rebuild. Continue reading
Jan 16 Obama, Bush, Clinton Join Forces for Haiti Appeal By Jason Breslow President Barack Obama joined predecessors George W. Bush and Bill Clinton at the White House Saturday to announce a fundraising appeal to benefit Haiti in "one of the largest relief efforts in our history," Mr. Obama said. Continue reading
Jan 16 'Race Against Time' to Distribute Haitian Relief By Larisa Epatko As supplies continued to stack up at Haiti's airport Saturday, aid workers and officials pushed to get the much-needed provisions to the masses of earthquake survivors in and around the capital Port-au-Prince. Continue reading