Haiti's earthquake death toll will top 150,000, a minister said Sunday as rescuers located a possible new survivor beneath the rubble of the capital 12 days after the disaster. The United Nations appealed for more troops to be sent in as police struggled to control fresh outbreaks of looting in devastated Port-au-Prince, while a new aftershock rocked the ...

Haiti's earthquake death toll will top 150,000, a minister said Sunday as rescuers located a possible new survivor beneath the rubble of the capital 12 days after the disaster. Many Haitians flocked to ruined churches to pray and sing as rescue teams began bulldozing central Port-au-Prince and police struggled to control fresh outbreaks of looting in the western ...

The UN mission in Chad and the Central African Republic needs urgent reinforcement because it lacks staff and equipment as it seeks to protect civilians, a senior UN official said Friday. The mission, known as MINURCAT, took over from a European force in mid-March amid regional tensions marked by deteriorating ties between neighboring Sudan and the international community. So far ...