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AP – Singer Wyclef Jean’s high-profile bid for Haiti’s presidency ended after election officials on the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation disqualified his candidacy.

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Relief efforts: Local agencies, residents quick to offer aid
Aftershocks of the devastating Haiti earthquake reverberated all the way to Oregon, where relief organizations and others with connections to the impoverished nation scrambled to provide aid and contact friends and family. The 7.0-magnitude quake that hit Tuesday afternoon virtually flattened the capital city of Port-au-Prince, killing thousands, although no …

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El Pasoans join Haiti aid effort
EL PASO — The aftermath of Tuesday’s catastrophic earthquake in Haiti reached the Borderland on Friday as schools, businesses and organizations joined the efforts to help. Northeast El Paso residents Coolidge and Gemme Imperial lost their sister-in-law in the disaster. She could not escape her house in time.

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Austin missionaries, UT student reported safe in Haiti
Friday brought some good news for friends and family of three Austin residents who had been missing in Haiti since Tuesday’s earthquake.

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Haiti Foundation Against Poverty Launches New Fundraising Drive to Help Victims of Earthquake
Haiti Foundation Against Poverty launches online initiative to raise money to help victims of the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti yesterday.

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Wyclef Jean’s Plea for Urgent Earthquake Relief in Haiti: “We Must Act Now”
Wyclef Jean is pleading for people to “act now” to help victims of the devastating 7.0 Haitian earthquake, which officials feared could leave thousands dead . “Haiti today faced a natural disaster of unprecedented proportion, an earthquake unlike anything the country has ever experienced,” the Haitian-American music star wrote on his blog . “I cannot stress enough what a human disaster this is …

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Canadian businesses with ties to Haiti assess damage
If it weren’t for a bad bout of bronchitis that kept her in Montreal for a few extra days, Jacqueline Monfourny could well have been buried in the rubble Tuesday night as her mining company’s building collapsed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

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Digicel Launches Text and Voice Donation Line to Support Relief Efforts in Haiti
KINGSTON, JAMAICA–(Marketwire – 01/14/10) – Digicel Group today launched a text and voice donation line to enable its 10 million plus customers worldwide to donate money to the massive humanitarian relief effort that is urgently needed in Haiti. By texting the word “HELP” or calling a short code*, Digicel customers in any of its 32 markets worldwide can make a difference to the people of Haiti …

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Daley: Chicagoans should contribute to Haiti relief effort
Mayor Richard Daley today urged Chicagoans to contribute to Red Cross efforts to help the victims of the massive earthquake in Haiti.   “Actually, we’ve found the best thing to go to is the Red Cross,” Daley said. “We’ve found out that when you start doing special things it gets lost. We’re asking people to make a donation, whether it’s five, 10, 15, 20 – whatever it is, to the Red Cross …

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Secretary Clinton on Haiti: A Race Against Time
With food, water and other aid flowing into Haiti in earnest, relief groups and officials are focused on moving the supplies out of the clogged airport and to hungry, haggard earthquake survivors in the capital.  Photos | Quake Resources

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Wyclef Jean’s plea for earthquake relief in Haiti: “We must act now”
Jean is pleading for people to “act now” to help victims of the 7.0 earthquake that devastated Haiti, which officials feared could leave thousands dead.

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