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Haiti: Aftershocks »

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"Immediately after the shaking stopped, it was deathly silent. You couldn’t hear anything. Then, about three or four seconds later, the entire city erupted in screams. It was something I’ll never forget," says Jordan Wiley of Médicin...

Wed 17 Feb 2010 by Médecins Sans Frontières | Read more »

The Yanks are coming »

The role of the US military in the international relief effort in Haiti has come under increasing flak in the three weeks following the catastrophic earthquake. The leaders of Nicaragua, Bolivia and Venezuela have portrayed the US military presence as ...

Wed 03 Feb 2010 by James Fidler | Read more »

Averting crises upon crises »

In just a few minutes the city of Padang in Indonesia was reduced to a pile of rubble. An earthquake, measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale, hit the city on 30 September, causing devastation. Houses collapsed, thousands were buried under tonnes of rubble,...

Wed 28 Oct 2009 by Malcolm Fleming | Read more »

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