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PORT-AU-PRINCE Feb 18, 2010 French President Nicolas Sarkozy became France’s first head of state to visit Haiti, which is a former French colony.
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He announced an
PHNOM PENH Feb 10, 2010 The United States has told Cambodia that it can not write off the $317 million debt due to it, which date back to the 1970s. However, it has instead agreed to allow more time to repay, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Scot Marciel said today. The U.S will also not convert the debt into development aid but would work out a plan for Cambodia to pay back the loans, Marciel said.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE Feb 8, 2010 Hundreds of Haitian earthquake survivors protested in a suburb of their wrecked capital on Sunday.
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CANBERRA Feb 8, 2010 Australia will increase humanitarian aid to Myanmar- formerly known as Burma, by 40 percent to A$50 million ($43 million) a year. However, it will continue sanctions on the military regime, Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said on Monday.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE Critically injured Haitian earthquake victims are no longer being flown by the U.S. military for treatment in the United States. This has raised fears that some will die in a dispute over where to treat them and who should pay the costs. U.S. officials said on Saturday they hadn’t yet found a way to renew the U.S.-run medical evacuations, which were halted earlier this week.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE Jan 19, 2010 U.S. troops protected aid handouts and the United Nations sought extra peacekeepers in earthquake-shattered Haiti on Monday. Marauding looters emptied wrecked shops. Meanwhile, desperate survivors began to receive medical care and air-dropped food.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE Jan 18, 2010 The U.S. Southern Command
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said some 2,200
PORT-AU-PRINCE Jan 17, 2010 Four days after the major earthquake, there is still chaos in Haiti’s capital city.
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GENEVA Jan 15, 2010 U.N. aid agencies will launch an
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emergency appeal for $550 million on Friday to help the survivors of the earthquake in Haiti.
PORT-AU-PRINCE Jan 15, 2010 Troops and planeloads of food and medicine streamed in to Haiti on Thursday to help the traumatized nation.
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The Haitian 
