THE death toll in Haiti’s hurricane disaster soared to over 400 yesterday as floodwaters ebbed and victims’ bodies were recovered. The BBC reported that 50 people died in the town of Roche-a-Bateau ...
Weeks after a massive earthquake devastated parts of Haiti, aid has yet to reach some of the more remote areas, and the suffering — and death toll — is growing. Here in the U.S, the more than ...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – Haitians marked the 15th anniversary of a tragedy on Sunday. A 38-second-long earthquake hit west of Port-au-Prince at 4:53 p.m. on Jan. 12, 2010. Haitian officials ...
People searching for bodies in the ruins. People staring in disbelief. Earthquake. Haiti. Fifteen years ago Sunday. There are few human reactions that are universal, experienced the same whether ...
about 350 people were crushed to death by a stampeding crowd at the entrance to Jamarat Bridge in Mina, Saudi Arabia, during a pilgrimage to Mecca. In 2010, a magnitude-7 earthquake dealt Haiti ...