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Images from the devastation in Port-au-Prince. (Warning: Some images contain scenes of trauma)

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A photo released on January 14, 2010 from the UN Minustah mission showing an impromptu tent city set up in Port-au-Prince following a devastating earthquake on January 12, 2010. UN and aid agencies warned on January 14, 2010 that they faced a "major logistic challenge" in getting essential relief to survivors of Haiti's deadly earthquake.LOGAN ABASSI

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Gladys Loiuis Jeune is pulled alive from the rubble of her home in Port-au-Prince nearly 43 hours after Tuesday's earthquake, where she was greeted by her ecstatic daughter Thursday.PATRICK FARRELL

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Stone St-Louis, a member Montreal's Haitian community, cries at a Haitian community center in Montreal. St.Louis has not heard from her young daughter who is visiting family in Haiti.SHAUN BEST

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Police guards a detained man accused of trying to steal food in a market in Port-au-Prince, Thursday.Gregory Bull

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Cindy Terasme screams after seeing the feet of her dead 14-year-old brother Jean Gaelle Dersmorne in the rubble of the collapsed St. Gerard School in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday.Gerald Herbert

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Two military police officers from CFB Trenton, Ontario stand watch at the front of a Canadian C-17 Globemaster aircraft that had just landed, shortly after 1:30pm local time today, carrying troops, equipment, into the earthquake ravaged country. At left is MCpl Mike Lehman, and at right is Cpl Curtys Kennedy.Peter Power/The Globe and Mail

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An injured earthquake survivor gets her hair done in a makeshift shelter in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday, Jan. 14. A 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti Tuesday.Ricardo Arduengo

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People walk among debris in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14. A powerful earthquake struck Haiti Tuesday.Gregory Bull

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A woman leaves a partially destroyed building where the body of another woman, left, lies under the rubble in the 31 Delmas neighborhood in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Thursday.Gregory Bull

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Chinese rescue workers prepare their equipment after arriving at the Toussaint Louverture international airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Lynne Sladky

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A Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2010 aerial photo provided by The American Red Cross shows survivors gathered around bodies in Haiti?s capital Port-au-Prince during a joint Red Cross Red Crescent/ECHO (European Community Humanitarian Organization) aerial assessment mission following Tuesday's devastating earthquake.

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US Coast Guard personnel evacuated Wednesday nearly 140 U.S citizens from earthquake ravaged Haiti.Petty Officer 1st Class Mariana

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Residents carry bodies recovered from the rubble after an earthquake in Port-au-Prince today. Hundreds of bodies lay outside Port-au-Prince's General Hospital, as pick-up trucks piled with corpses continued to deliver the dead from the earthquake to a morgue there.KENA BETANCUR

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People look at a destroyed building in Port-au-Prince January 14, 2010. The death toll from Haiti's earthquake could be between 45,000 and 50,000, with a further three million people hurt or homeless, a senior Haitian Red Cross official said on Thursday.JORGE SILVA

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A man pulls on the leg of a school girl who died in the rubble of St. Gerard Church and School in Port-au-Prince, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2010. Several students and teachers died when the building collapsed.Gerald Herbert

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The arm of a deceased victim is seen amidst the rubble of the St. Gerard Churchl in Port-au-Prince, late Wednesday.Gerald Herbert

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UN peacekeepers load an injured Montana hotel employee into a helicopter following a devastating earthquake that rocked Port au Prince, Haiti, on January 12, 2010.LOGAN ABASSI

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Survivors walk past a church destroyed in Tuesday's earthquake in Haiti's Capitol, Port-au-Prince Wednesday.PATRICK FARRELL

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Residents watch as a bulldozer razes a destroyed building after a major earthquake hit the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.CARLOS BARRIA

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A resident walks with loaves of bread after a major earthquake hit the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince.CARLOS BARRIA

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An unidentified female earthquake victim is transported by pick-up truck to the airport on January 13, 2010 in Port-Au-Prince from where she will be evacuated for treatment in another country, one day after a cataclysmic earthquake struck Haiti. More than 100,000 people are feared dead.PAUL J. RICHARDS

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The body of 5-year-old Billy Saint Hubert is wrapped in cloth in Canape Vert following a major quake.Frederic Dupoux

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