Ten members of a US Christian group could be charged with kidnapping minors and child-trafficking over an attempt to smuggle a group of children out of quake-hit Haiti, officials said.
Players from the four major sports leagues went in front of the camera for Haiti earthquake relief. The players’ associations for the NFL, NBA, NHL and Major League Baseball released a public service announcement Monday promoting an aid campaign for earthquake-ravaged Haiti. Shaun Alexander and Kevin Mawae appear in the 30-second spot “One Team 4 Haiti.” Samuel Dalembert and Derek…
PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI — How do you find out what the Haitian people really need now, nearly three weeks after the earthquake? You ask them.
The 79-year-old woman with a 55-pound bag of rice perched on her head gingerly descended concrete steps Sunday and passed it off to her daughter-in-law — who quickly disappeared behind the faded leopard-print sheets that are the walls of their makeshift home on the crowded turf of Haiti’s National Stadium.
Ten U.S. Baptists arrested trying to take 33 children out of earthquake-shattered Haiti say they were just trying to do the right thing, applying Christian principles to save Haitian children.
During the greatest disaster Haiti has ever faced, its president has seemed incapable of pulling himself together, much less this deeply divided society.
The run-up to a war gives Stars and Stripes time to prepare for newspaper delivery, but a crisis like the Haiti earthquake has unique complications.
Ten Americans detained and accused of child trafficking in Haiti after they allegedly tried to bus 33 children into the Dominican Republic insist their effort was an attempt to get the children to a shelter.
More than just a champion, Roger Federer was recognized Sunday as a humanitarian. A charity match initiated by Federer to raise money for Haiti earthquake victims has raised more than $600,000, said Tennis Australia president Geoff Pollard. The Jan. 12 earthquake that has killed at least 150,000 in Haiti struck three days before the start of the Australian Open.
Officials are restarting the airlift out of Haiti carrying injured earthquake victims, the White House said Sunday.