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Troops secure Haiti aid as looters run amok
US troops protected aid handouts and the UN sought extra peacekeepers in Haiti on Monday as looters emptied shops as survivors received medical care.
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Haitians receive little help despite promises
World leaders pledged massive aid programmes to rebuild Haiti but desperate earthquake survivors are still waiting for food, water and medicine.
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US pours aid into Haiti, survivors fight for food
Haitian earthquake survivors fought over food and water and others fled their wrecked capital on Saturday as the US rolled out its relief effort.
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Haiti says 200 000 may be dead
As many as 200 000 people died in the earthquake that devastated Haiti and three-quarters of the capital will need to be rebuilt.
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Desperate Haitians await foreign disaster relief
Thousands of people injured in Haiti’s massive earthquake spent a third night twisted in pain, lying on sidewalks and waiting for help.
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Lower Mexico flu death toll heartens nervous world
In a glint of good news for a world rattled by the threat of a flu pandemic, new data showed fewer people have died in Mexico than first thought.
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Swine flu cases increase, hurting markets, airlines
A new virus that has killed 149 people in Mexico was found further around the world on Tuesday and the specter of a pandemic began to hit air travel.
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Swine flu hits New Zealand, Israel
New Zealand and Israel confirmed cases of swine flu on Tuesday, the latest countries hit by a new strain that has killed up to 149 people in Mexico.
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World battles to curb deadly Mexico flu strain
The world’s top epidemiologists fought on Tuesday to curb the spread of a new strain of flu that has killed up to 149 people in Mexico.
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Mexican swine flu spreads to Europe
Governments acted to stem a possible flu pandemic on Monday, as a virus that has killed 103 people in Mexico was confirmed to have reached Europe.
