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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- ...
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 ...
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.
Clintons land in Haiti to showcase industrial park
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton encouraged foreigners to invest in Haiti as she and her husband Bill led a star-studded delegation gathered ...
Islam's inroads in land of Voodoo and Christianity
School teacher Darlene Derosier lost her home in the 2010 earthquake that devastated her country. Her husband died a month later after suffering what ...
Several thousand people protest Haiti gov't
Several thousand people poured into the streets of Haiti's capital on Sunday to protest the government of President Michel Martelly. It was among the ...
Mitch Albom, charity sued over Haiti orphanage
Operators of a Haiti orphanage have sued journalist Mitch Albom and one of his charities, claiming the best-selling author broke terms of an agreement ...
Villages slowly vanish as Hispaniola lakes grow
No one thought much about it when the largest lake in the Caribbean began rising in a year of heavy rains. But then it never stopped. Lake Enriquillo ...
Sean Penn's charity begins demo of Haiti palace
The aid group led by Hollywood star Sean Penn has begun demolishing the National Palace that was destroyed in Haiti's powerful 2010 earthquake.
Isaac tests the resolve of a Haitian family man
Ousner Benjamin usually worries about supporting his common-law wife and five children. But on the eve of Tropical Storm Isaac's passage across ...
Hispaniola death toll from Isaac climbs to 10
Haitians began to dig themselves out of the mud on Sunday, one day after Tropical Storm Isaac doused the Caribbean nation and killed eight people here ...
Isaac threatens Fla. Keys, northern Gulf Coast
Tropical Storm Isaac gained fresh muscle Sunday as it bore down on the Florida Keys, with forecasters warning it could grow into a dangerous Category ...
Isaac drenches Haiti, Cuba, heads toward Florida
Tropical Storm Isaac pushed over Cuba on Saturday after sweeping across Haiti's southern peninsula, where it caused flooding and at least four deaths, ...
Isaac nears Haiti with homeless quake population
Tropical Storm Isaac bore down on Haiti's southern peninsula early Saturday, threatening a city prone to flooding and dousing other areas of the poor ...
Isaac heads for Hispaniola, could threaten Florida
Tropical Storm Isaac churned toward the Dominican Republic and Haiti late Thursday, although forecasters said it now appeared less likely to become ...
Sean Penn's charity to demolish Haiti's Palace
The nonprofit aid group founded by Hollywood star Sean Penn in the aftermath of Haiti's deadly 2010 earthquake will oversee demolition of the wrecked ...
US pledge to rebuild Haiti not being met
The deadly earthquake that leveled Haiti's capital more than two years ago brought a thread of hope: a promise of renewal. With the United States ...
UN report on Haiti rape shows few prosecutions
The prosecution of rape cases in Haiti remains bogged down, and justice is rarely served, the United Nations mission in the impoverished country said ...
Number of Haitians displaced by quake is falling
The number of people living in the precarious settlements that became glaring symbols of the Haitian earthquake's devastation has dropped below ...