- 23:21 22/03/2010
The Inter-American Development Bank wrote off Haiti's $479 million debt, and opened a new credit line of $200 million for the poorest Latin American country that was devastated by an earthquake in January.
- 01:18 19/02/2010
The United Nations has called on the international community to collect $1.44 billion in aid for Haiti, which was hit by devastating quake last month.
- 13:55 12/02/2010
The government of Haiti could use circus tents as its temporary headquarters in Port-au-Prince after a powerful quake last month flattened the capital, CNN reported on Friday citing the man who donated them.
- 21:49 08/02/2010
The number of UN personnel killed in the recent quake in Haiti has reached 94, while another eight staff remain unaccounted for, a spokesman for the UN secretary general said on Monday.
- 07:41 06/02/2010
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said the ten U.S. missionaries, charged with attempting to take 33 children out of Haiti, will be tried in a Haitian court.
- 10:02 03/02/2010
Like any disastrous quake around the world, the Haiti disaster has sent shockwaves of rumors and speculations. One of those was that the Caribbean island became a testing ground for a new generation of seismic weapons. Samir Shakhbaz grills one of Russia’s leading expert Yevgeny Rogozhkin on the hot topic.
- 21:11 01/02/2010
The number of UN personnel killed in a recent quake in Haiti has reached 92, while another seven officials remained unaccounted for, the head of the UN mission said on Monday.
- 12:35 01/02/2010
Ten American Baptists were being held in the Haitian capital Sunday after attempting to take 33 children out of the country
- 15:28 31/01/2010
Russia will send two more planes with 40 metric tons of humanitarian aid to quake-devastated Haiti, the emergencies ministry said on Sunday.
- 13:48 31/01/2010
Haitian police have arrested 10 U.S. nationals on suspicion of trying to illegally take over 30 children out of the country.
- 08:09 31/01/2010
A plane carrying Russian doctors who treated residents of quake-hit Haiti took off Saturday and is expected to land Sunday morning at Ramenskoye airport near Moscow, the Emergency Situations Ministry said.
- 07:29 30/01/2010
UNESCO has launched a campaign to protect Haiti's cultural heritage fearing that art collections might be looted from quake-damaged museums, galleries and churches.
- 02:51 30/01/2010
The number of UN personnel killed in the deadly quake in Haiti has reached 84, while another 15 people remained unaccounted for.
- 10:19 27/01/2010
Us military rescue a Haitian man from rubble on Tuesday.
At this stage it's impossible to determine how long he had been under the rubble.
- 06:19 27/01/2010
The United Nations has received almost half of the $575 million it called on the world to collect to help Haiti residents, the UN humanitarian coordinator said.
- 07:48 26/01/2010
The UN World Food Program (WFP) has prioritized women in Haiti food aid distribution to ensure that the most vulnerable get access to aid.
- 00:59 26/01/2010
The number of UN personnel killed in a powerful earthquake that struck Haiti on January 12 has risen to 82, with 53 still listed as missing.
- 17:51 25/01/2010
All students from quake-hit Haiti at Russian universities will receive state funding to continue their studies, the Russian premier said on Monday.
- 08:07 25/01/2010
Foreign ministers from all over the world will gather in Canada's second-largest city of Montreal on Monday to discuss the rebuilding of Haiti, where a devastating January 12 earthquake claimed up to 150,000 lives.
- 07:54 24/01/2010
The death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit Haiti last week exceeded 112,000.
- 03:09 24/01/2010
Haitian President Rene Preval has urged the UN to establish a special force to coordinate humanitarian operations and international response in disaster-hit areas.
- 01:12 24/01/2010
Rescue workers have pulled out a survivor who spent 11 days trapped under rubble after a powerful quake hit Haiti.
- 06:35 23/01/2010
A Russian mobile hospital and its medical personnel will provide medical assistance to the victims of the devastating Haiti quake for another 10 days.
- 23:13 22/01/2010
A 69-year-old woman in quake-devastated Haiti survived 10 days under rubble without food or water before being rescued, regional media said on Friday.
- 14:58 22/01/2010
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday he was not alarmed by increasing U.S. military presence in quake-hit Haiti.
- 14:53 22/01/2010
The Russian Emergencies Ministry’s mobile field hospital offers qualified medical aid to accident and disaster victims in a self-contained environment
- 11:45 22/01/2010
Nine days after a devastating earthquake hit Haiti, the biggest problem is still the lack of aid getting to where it is needed. The initial efforts were concentrated on the capital Port-au-Prince, but away from there, many areas have seen no aid at all.
- 23:41 21/01/2010
Looters in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince are coming under attack by local residents, who are forming Lynch mobs, a RIA Novosti correspondent said on Thursday.
- 21:37 21/01/2010
The first ship with humanitarian aid arrived on Thursday to a port in Haiti, hit by a devastating earthquake last week, a spokesman for the U.N. Secretary General said.
- 16:21 21/01/2010
Costs of Russia's rescue operation in Haiti, hit by a devastating quake last week, stand at $5 million, the Russian foreign ministry said on its website on Thursday.
- 01:35 21/01/2010
The number of United Nations officials confirmed dead in Haiti's earthquake has risen to 49.
- 16:10 20/01/2010
A new earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale hit Haiti on Wednesday morning, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
- 12:14 20/01/2010
A Mexican rescue team on Tuesday pulled a 69-year-old Haitian woman alive from the rubble of a Roman Catholic compound in Port-au-Prince, which collapsed in last week's devastating earthquake.
- 20:20 19/01/2010
The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday unanimously voted in favor of a resolution to increase the peacekeeping contingent in quake-hit Haiti by 1,500 police and 2,000 troops.
- 17:19 19/01/2010
The first Russian emergencies services plane to land in Haiti will leave the devastated island nation in the early hours of Thursday, a spokesman for the Russian rescue team said.
- 16:41 19/01/2010
The Palestinian government in the West Bank has decided to render humanitarian assistance to quake-struck Haiti, Palestinian news agency WAFA reported Tuesday.
- 11:18 19/01/2010
US troops patrolled the streets of Port-au-Prince on Monday in an attempt to drive away looters who were breaking into shops and buildings to take whatever they could find amidst the earthquake debris.
US Army's on-the-ground commander, Lieutenant General Ken Keen, has said the city was seeing less violence than before the earthquake.
- 21:50 18/01/2010
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said he asked the Security Council on Monday to beef up the peacekeeping contingent in quake-hit Haiti by 1,500 policemen and 2,000 troops.
- 21:12 18/01/2010
Moscow. (RIA Novosti political commentator Dmitry Kosyrev) - A three-minute tremor in Haiti was sufficient to create a new international situation for the United States and the rest of the world. By adopting a smart policy towards Haiti America can win back its positions, compensate for all its failures (Iraq and Afghanistan), reverse the anti-American attitudes, and regain its status of a superpower.
- 16:39 18/01/2010
Haitian students of the Peoples’ Friendship University in Moscow asked for help from the university administration. Their tuition fees might be retracted.
- 14:56 18/01/2010
A Russian Emergencies Ministry mobile hospital began operating in Haiti on January 15. A team of 24 rescuers, six of them with rescue dogs, and two special vehicles started searching for survivors.
- 13:46 18/01/2010
A baby born in Haiti on Sunday is set to be named 'Israel' in honour of the medical crew who brought him into the world amongst the rubble of earthquake ravaged Port-au-Prince.
- 13:38 18/01/2010
After surviving 126 hours in the rubble, two victims were pulled alive from the wreckage of a collapsed Haiti supermarket late on Sunday to applause from amazed onlookers.
- 12:54 18/01/2010
A Haitian nurse, whose dramatic rescue was captured by a TV Globo crew, was reunited on Saturday with the Brazilian soldier and the journalists who saved her life.
- 11:21 18/01/2010
A reliable death toll may be weeks away, but the Pan American Health Organisation estimates 50 to 100-thousand died in the 7.0-magnitude tremor, but Haitian officials believe the number is higher.
- 08:47 18/01/2010
Russian doctors in Haiti treated more than 100 earthquake survivors over the weekend, and Emergency Situations Ministry representative said on Monday in Moscow.
- 05:56 18/01/2010
Rescuers have pulled the body of a Russian man from rubble in the quake-hit Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince.
- 21:09 17/01/2010
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has arrived in the quake-struck Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, the United Nations told RIA Novosti on Sunday.
- 10:28 17/01/2010
Russian rescuers have pulled four people from rubble in the quake-hit Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, in the last twenty-four hours, a spokeswoman for the Russian Emergencies Ministry said on Sunday.
- 06:58 17/01/2010
Russian rescuers saved three people from rubble in the quake-hit Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, the head of the rescue team told journalists on Sunday.
- 04:30 17/01/2010
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived to the quake-hit Haitian capital, Port-au-Prince, and met with the country's president Rene Preval.
- 01:31 17/01/2010
The bodies of top UN officials have been recovered in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, hit by a devastating quake this week.
- 19:29 16/01/2010
A 4.7-magnitude earthquake 150 kilometers (around 93 miles) northeast of Colombia's capital Bogota rocked the area on Saturday, the U.S. Geological Survey has reported.
- 17:00 16/01/2010
International security forces are unable to guarantee the safety of rescue workers at night in Haiti's capital, a security forces spokesman told reporters on Saturday.
- 16:31 16/01/2010
The bodies of the dead lying in the streets of Haiti's capital as the result of a powerful earthquake are being collected by front-loaders, piled together, and burned, a RIA Novosti correspondent reported on Saturday.
- 07:18 16/01/2010
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit quake-hit Haiti on Saturday together with the head of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
- 04:51 16/01/2010
Major U.S. professional sports leagues and associations have collected and donated over $5 million to victims of quake-hit Haiti.
- 02:07 16/01/2010
Another quake measuring 4.6 on the Richter scale was registered some 60 km (37 miles) to the south of Haiti's Port-au-Prince late on Friday night, no information on casualties has been provided as of yet
- 22:25 15/01/2010
The UN is asking for $560 million from the global community to help Haiti's quake victims, the organization's humanitarian chief said on Friday.
- 19:22 15/01/2010
Students from earthquake-stricken Haiti studying in Moscow are sick with worry for their relatives at home and are unsure if they will be able to continue studying.
- 18:06 15/01/2010
Rescue efforts in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince nearly destroyed by a powerful earthquake is possible only in the daytime, a Russian emergencies official in Haiti said Friday.
- 12:03 15/01/2010
The international Red Cross estimated that up to 50-thousand people were killed in the magnitude-7.0 earthquake and fears are that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of people remained trapped in the rubble of the capital, dead or alive.
- 11:37 15/01/2010
- 09:00 15/01/2010
Sanitary conditions in quake-stricken Haiti are reaching catastrophic levels due to the lack of water and decaying bodies lying on the streets of the capital, Mexico's ambassador to Haiti said on Friday.
- 21:11 14/01/2010
The UN mission in Haiti said on Thursday that 36 of its employees were killed and 73 injured when a powerful quake hit the island nation on Tuesday.
- 14:11 14/01/2010
Governments and aid agencies around the world launched a massive relief effort on Wednesday for the estimated three (m) million people affected by the devastating earthquake in Haiti and Pope Benedict Xvi appealed for a generous aid response for the quake victims and pledged the Catholic Church's support.
- 11:41 14/01/2010
Dazed and injured survivors wandered the streets, some lay on the floor looking shocked and stunned by what had happened.Leading senator Youri Latortue told The Associated Press that 500,000 could be dead, though he acknowledged that nobody really knew the exact toll.
- 09:09 14/01/2010
Three Russian emergencies ministry planes took off for Haiti on Thursday carrying rescuers, supplies and equipment including a mobile hospital to help the earthquake-stricken country.
- 06:01 14/01/2010
An emergencies ministry plane carrying a Russian rescue team for quake-hit Haiti took off from an airfield near Moscow on Thursday.
- 03:42 14/01/2010
The FBI issued on Thursday a warning about e-mails offering bogus online fundraising to help victims of the devastating quake in Haiti, which left thousands of people dead.
- 02:28 14/01/2010
Haiti is in the desperate need of medical aid following a devastating earthquake which left thousands of people dead.
- 00:54 14/01/2010
A total of 14 employees of the UN mission in Haiti were killed and 56 injured after a powerful quake destroyed the organization's headquarters in Port-au-Prince.
- 20:58 13/01/2010
Russia is preparing to send disaster relief to quake-struck Haiti, including a mobile air hospital, the emergencies ministry said Wednesday.
- 16:17 13/01/2010
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Wednesday sent his condolences to his Haitian counterpart Rene Preval over the devastating earthquake in Haiti, the Kremlin said.
- 14:59 13/01/2010
Hundreds of people are believed to have died after a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Haiti, an impoverished Caribbean nation.
- 12:34 13/01/2010
The strongest earthquake in more than 200 years that hit Haiti on Tuesday was also felt in the Dominican Republic, which shares a border with Haiti on the island of Hispaniola.
- 12:09 13/01/2010
Many large buildings, including offices, hotels and shops were destroyed in Haiti by a powerful earthquake, with hundreds and even thousands of people lying under rubble
- 11:08 13/01/2010
The head of the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti is missing and may be lying under the rubble of the organization's Port-au-Prince headquarters after a powerful quake hit the island.
- 08:47 13/01/2010
Hundreds of people are believed to have died after a powerful earthquake struck off the coast of Haiti
- 03:22 13/01/2010
An earthquake measuring 7 on the Richter scale has hit Haiti, a hospital and other buildings collapsed, casualties have been reported.
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