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Haiti 'snake artist' uses Carnival to get by
Saintilus Resilus' day job this time of year is walking the streets of Haiti's capital with snakes on his head. He sees himself as something of a ...
AP Interview: Haiti eyes tourism, other businesses
Haiti's prime minister says his country is hoping to attract high-end tourists and multinational investors — instead of constant aid handouts — so it ...
Haitian amputee makes comeback on dance floor
Georges Exantus thought he'd never dance again. He was lucky just to be alive. The earthquake three years ago in Haiti's capital flattened the ...
'Big Truck' details disastrous Haiti aid effort
"The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster" (Palgrave Macmillan), by Jonathan M. Katz After two and ...
Branford Marsalis headlines jazz festival in Haiti
Saxophone legend Branford Marsalis is headlining a jazz festival in Haiti. Marsalis arrived in the impoverished Caribbean nation Friday to perform ...
Haiti quietly marks quake's 3rd anniversary
President Michel Martelly urged Haitians to recall the tens of thousands of people who lost their lives in a devastating earthquake three years ago, ...
Haiti plans subdued memorial 3 years after quake
The Haitian government plans a low-key ceremony Saturday for the third anniversary of the earthquake that devastated the country and killed hundreds ...
A view of post-quake Haiti, on the run
Six days a week, the rail-thin athlete sets off at daybreak, his neon-green running shoes glowing in the grey light of dawn. It's hard not to notice ...
US family builds Haiti orphanage for daughter
An American family who lost their daughter in a massive earthquake in Haiti three years ago has finished building an orphanage in her memory.
State Dept. warns Americans about Haiti travel
The State Department has issued a revised Haiti travel advisory, warning Americans planning to travel to the Caribbean island nation about robbery, ...
Haitian president to sing with Julio Iglesias
Haiti's singer-turned-president is returning to the international stage. President Michel Martelly will sing two songs with Spanish singer Julio ...
Artisans are thriving again in post-quake Haiti
The sharp tang of varnish hangs in the air as a dozen women and a few men cut and scrape logs into bowls destined for U.S. department stores. In other ...
Sean Penn: Port-au-Prince, Haiti, is like Detroit
As the three-year mark approaches of the devastating earthquake in Haiti that killed, injured and displaced hundreds of thousands of people, actor- ...
Clinton, Bush fund helping Haiti businesses ends
A pro-business fund that was created by former U.S. Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush in the aftermath of Haiti's devastating earthquake ...
Study: Widespread hunger in Haiti after storms
Haitians have suffered widespread hunger following an unusually active storm season this year and are likely to experience more, according to a study ...
Haiti seeks to fix broken adoption system
Haiti is overhauling its adoption laws for the first time in nearly 40 years in an attempt to end practices that have allowed thousands of children ...
Jimmy Carter returns to Haiti to build houses
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter on Monday urged donors to honor the billion-dollar pledges they made to help Haiti rebuild after its devastating ...
Migration officials say cholera in Haiti on rise
The world's largest agency that deals with global migration says cholera is again on the rise in Haiti. The International Organization for Migration ...
Fall rains bring havoc to Haiti
The rain has tapered off and floodwaters no longer claw at houses, but the situation across much of Haiti remained grim on Tuesday following an autumn ...
Flowers, ritual, horse race mark Day of the Dead
Mexicans cleaned the bones of dead relatives and decorated their graves with flowers and candy skulls. In Haiti, voodoo practitioners circled an iron ...
Cuba's 2nd city without power, water after Sandy
Residents of Cuba's second-largest city of Santiago remained without power or running water Monday, four days after Hurricane Sandy made landfall as ...
Hurricane's death toll rises to 65 in Caribbean
As Americans braced Sunday for Hurricane Sandy, Haiti was still suffering. Officials raised the storm-related death toll across the Caribbean to 65, ...
Sandy gone, Caribbean mourns 58 dead, cleans up
The Caribbean death toll from Hurricane Sandy rose again sharply on Saturday, even as the storm swirled away toward the U.S. East Coast.
Sandy leaves Bahamas after killing 43 in Caribbean
Hurricane Sandy spun away from the Bahamas late Friday after causing 43 deaths across the Caribbean, churning northward toward the U.S. East Coast, ...
Weakened hurricane lashes Bahamas after 21 deaths
A weakened Hurricane Sandy lashed the central Bahamas late Thursday with violent winds and torrential rains, after raging through the Caribbean where ...