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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 27, 2010: Marie-Yolette Marcel, 55, prayed in her brother's car as the sun rose over the refugee camps on Champs de Mars in front of the presidential palace. Marcel lives in the car with her daughter and tries to go around during the day to pray with other earthquake victims.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 26, 2010: Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne attended to Rico Duprevil, 31, on a street in downtown Port-au-Prince after he was rescued from a destroyed building by Haitian passersby. Miraculously, Duprevil survived in the rubble for 13 days following Haiti's devastating earthquake.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 26, 2010: A woman was crushed in the crowd of people clamoring to get to the front of a food distribution line. Haitian police eventually had to break up the throng after they stormed the police station, overtaking security and breaking the metal gate at a food distribution site in Cite Soleil.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 23, 2010: A U.N. soldier stands guard as displaced residents of Cite Soleil lined up for a WFP-sponsored food distribution of rice, beans, salt and oil as well as solar-powered radios.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 28, 2010: The last light of the setting sun hits Lunes Victor, 8, as he bathes in a metal tub in a refugee camp set up on the wooded grounds of the Haitian prime minister's residential compound.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 25, 2010: Family members try to wake Eridiant Joseph after he collapsed with grief on the sidewalk as his family worked to recover his sister's body from the rubble of her home. Joseph had left Port-au-Prince on Jan. 11, the day before the earthquake struck, for his home in Orlando, Fla. He got word a few days later that his sister was killed and quickly made plans to return to Haiti.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 22, 2010: Cuban doctors treated the broken collarbone of Jennie Dorsainvil, 11, at a field hospital/treatment center set up by the Cuban Medical Mission (Brigada Medica Cubana) in the parking lot of the Renaissance Hospital in downtown Port-au-Prince. The Cuban mission was already in Haiti when the earthquake struck and was the first to get treatment to victims.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 20, 2010: Victims of the earthquake eight days earlier finally got help from a small missionary group based in Port-au-Prince. Here they wait in the back of the Haiti Gospel Mission's makeshift ambulance (an old gutted Suburban) to be taken for medical treatment.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 20, 2010: Vegetable sellers at the main produce market in downtown Port-au-Prince sold cabbage and other vegetables, a sign that some measure of normalcy was returning to the quake-ravaged capital city.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 18, 2010: People began burning buildings with bodies in them around Port-au- Prince after six days without having them cleared from streets and building debris around the city. Residents claimed this fire at the Pepetyel Church in Bel-Air was deliberately set because of the rotting corpses inside.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 18, 2010: People crammed into buses bound for Les Cayes, a city in the southeastern part of Haiti, from the main bus station in downtown Port-au-Prince. Residents filled bus after bus headed out of the city as conditions after the earthquake continued to deteriorate.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 17, 2010: Residents ran for cover as Haitian police fired into a building in which they said looters were hiding.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 17, 2010: Residents raised their hands to police as they passed through a downtown street where Haitian police were firing into a building in which looters were allegedly hiding. Four men reportedly were shot.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 16, 2010: People crowded the streets as looters threw supplies like soap and towels out of a destroyed home-goods store into the street in Port-au-Prince's La Saline neighborhood.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 16, 2010: Desmone Nativitha got all of her hair cut off at a barber shop in the Bel-Air neighborhood of Port-au-Prince because of a large wound on her head sustained in the earthquake.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 16, 2010: A woman swept the street near a pile of decomposing corpses.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 16, 2010: People fled gunshots that rang out in downtown Port-au-Prince, where the needy were growing desperate.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 15, 2010: People scrambled to get water being distributed in Port-au-Prince. The need for food, water and medical care was urgent following Haiti's 7.0 earthquake.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 14, 2010: Lionel Michaud cried after he found his 10-month-old daughter, Christian Michaud, (left) among hundreds of bodies outside the central morgue in downtown Port-au-Prince. His wife, Lormeny Nathalie, was also killed when their home in a two-story building collapsed while he was at work.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 14, 2010: A body covered with dust from a collapsed building lies on a street in the devastated capital city. The search was still on for survivors days after Haiti's 7.0 earthquake.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 14, 2010: Victims of Haiti's Jan. 12 earthquake.
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI - Jan. 13, 2010: Injured patients wait without treatment or medicine outside the St. Esprit Hospital in central Port-au-Prince one day after a 7.0 earthquake devastated much of the Haitian capital city.
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