UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United Nations on Wednesday assigned former U.S. President Bill Clinton, now U.N. special envoy to Haiti, to coordinate international relief efforts in the earthquake-devastated country. Clinton will seek to organize a mass of aid initiatives and offers that have poured in since the magnitude 7.0 earthquake killed up to 200,000 Haitians and ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Sitting at a table under billowing bed sheets, David Delva tries to compile a list of around 12,000 people who now live in an open field below a hillside slum that collapsed in Haiti's January 12 earthquake. After fleeing their crumbled homes, local residents quickly built up a jumble of makeshift shelters out of corrugated tin ...

Vast crowds of Haitians massed around aid stations Tuesday, threatening to overwhelm emergency food handouts against a backdrop of new political and seismic aftershocks. A stung Secretary of State Hillary Clinton defended the United States' role in the relief operation from charges of heavy-handed incompetence, as US officials backed plans to cancel Haiti's debt and consider easing immigration rules ...