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France's national anthem blared across the tarmac today as Nicolas Sarkozy made the first visit ever by a French president to Haiti, once his nation's richest colony — offering aid to a country prostrate after a catastrophic earthquake. Sarkozy, who was greeted by Haitian President Rene Preval as a brass band played the Marseillaise, toured a French field hospital in the earthquakeravaged capital before giving a brief speech at the undamaged French Embassy. He said his visit had particular resonance given France and H... Full story
A pre-dawn rain shower soaked tens of thousands living in rudimentary shelters in Haiti's capital this morning, an alarming taste of the havoc a sustained tropical downpour could wreak on this earthquake-ravaged country. Rain collapsed cardboard shacks and soaked clothing and bedding at the Marassa 14 camp, where about 2,500 earthquake- displaced people live in a dry riverbed. People scrambled to shore up leaks. Most of the estimated 1.2 million people that the U.N. says are living in temporary camps across Haiti dwell in...