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French rail sorry for deporting Jews to Nazi camps (AFP)

November 13th, 2010

A group of deportees still wearing their concentration camp uniforms are greeted by locals on their arrival back in Paris in 1945 after being liberated by Allied forces in Germany. France's state-owned rail company SNCF has expressed remorse for hauling thousands of Jews to their deaths in Nazi camps, after US lawmakers threatened its chances of winning lucrative contracts(AFP/File)AFP - France’s state-owned rail company SNCF has expressed remorse for hauling thousands of Jews to their deaths in Nazi camps, after US lawmakers threatened its chances of winning lucrative…

Tomas soaks Haiti quake camps, triggers floods (Reuters)

November 5th, 2010

Earthquake survivors decide to stay in their camp, despite warnings of potential flooding by Tropical Storm Tomas, in downtown Port-au-Prince November 4, 2010. REUTERS/ Eduardo MunozReuters - Hurricane Tomas soaked Haiti’s crowded earthquake survivors’ camps and swamped coastal towns as it swirled between Haiti and Cuba on Friday, trailing thunderstorms that still could cause flooding…

Tomas regains hurricane force, soaks Haiti camps (Reuters)

November 5th, 2010

A man walks in the rain at downtown Port-au-Prince October 31, 2010. REUTERS/ Eduardo MunozReuters - Tropical Storm Tomas re-strengthened to a hurricane on Friday as it headed between Cuba and Haiti, drenching with overnight rain crowded tent and tarpaulin camps housing vulnerable Haitian…

Fear of looming hurricane grips Haitian quake camps (Reuters)

November 2nd, 2010

Earthquake victims buy groceries at an improvised store in Camp Corail about 12 miles (19 km) north of Port-au-Prince November 1, 2010. REUTERS/Eduardo MunozReuters - How do you prepare a tent to stand up to a hurricane?


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Report: 1 million Haitians in 1,300 squalid camps (AP)

October 7th, 2010

AP - A report says more than one million people are still living in 1,300 mostly unmanaged camps nine months after Haiti’s devastating earthquake. Sexual violence is rampant and gangs…

Storm shreds aging tents in Haiti earthquake camps (AP)

September 26th, 2010

A girl ties her hair next to her tent after it fell down due to heavy rain at a camp for earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Saturday, Sept. 25, 2010. A storm blasted through Haiti's capital on Friday, killing at least five people as it tore down trees, billboards and tent homes, authorities said.(AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - The sudden, powerful storm that ripped through Haiti’s battered capital destroyed thousands of tents in the homeless camps where more than 1.3 million people live eight months after…

5 killed as storm blasts through Haiti tent camps (AP)

September 25th, 2010

An earthquake survivor tries to set up her tent after it fell down due to heavy rain in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 24, 2010. Powerful winds from a rainstorm tore down trees, billboards and the tent homes of earthquake survivors. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - A freak storm blasted through Haiti’s capital on Friday, killing at least five earthquake survivors as it tore down trees, billboards and tent homes, authorities said.


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Rival Hamas, UN summer camps compete over children (AP)

June 28th, 2010

Palestinian employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), inspect the damage at a U.N. children summer camp on the beach of Zawaida town in the central of Gaza Strip, Monday, June 28, 2010. Two dozen masked men vandalized the U.N. summer camp for children in Gaza early Monday, burning and slashing tents, toys and a plastic swimming pool, in a second such attack in a month. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but Islamic extremists have accused the main U.N. aid agency here of corrupting Gaza's youth with its summer program of games, sports and human rights lessons for 250,000 children. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)AP - Masked men trashed a U.N. summer camp Monday, tying up guards and slashing tents and an inflatable pool in the second such attack blamed on suspected extremists in…

Ethnic Uzbeks in squalid camps fear returning home (AP)

June 18th, 2010

Ethnic Uzbek women and children sit in a tent near Uzbek-Kyrgyz border in outskirts southern city of Osh, Friday, June 18, 2010. The United Nations said as many as 1 million people may need aid in Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, including the potential number of refugees, internally displaced, host families and others that may suffer in one way or another from the unrest. (AP Photo/Sergei Grits)AP - Ethnic Uzbeks sheltering in squalid tent camps say they don’t have enough food or clean water but are terrified of going back to live alongside those they hold…

Shakira visits Haitians living in tent camps (AP)

April 11th, 2010

Colombian singer Shakira laughs while embracing a child at the Petionville Golf Club makeshift camp in Port-au-Prince, Sunday, April 11, 2010. Shakira's 'Pies Descalzos' foundation will finance the construction of a new school in Port-au-Prince. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)AP - Hip-shaking Colombian pop star Shakira is meeting with Haitian earthquake survivors living in makeshift camps and she says she is searching for suitable land to build a school…