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Banished: US Deports Hundreds of Military Veterans

First they served, now they are forced to flee.

(ROSARITO, Baja California) - Keeping tabs on his U.S. citizenship application wasn't much of a priority for Marine Cpl. Rohan Coombs when he served in the Persian Gulf War.

The aircraft maintenance specialist had more pressing concerns: the safety of his comrades as bombs rained down and people died around him in the desert.

Game On: Is the U.S. Doing Enough for Haiti?

It is our apparent job to kill for the benefit of the world, isn't it also an obligation to save lives?

(SALEM, Ore.) - History shows us that the U.S. goverment failed to help its own people adequately after Hurricane Katrina struck the residents of Louisiana, Mississippi and several other states.

Impoverished, homeless people, mostly black, who didn't in many cases have anything to their names to start with, were plunged into the depths of natural catastrophic madness.

Ban `Heartened` by Global Response to Help Haiti Quake Victims

The U.S. Government to provide as many helicopters, engineers and medical supplies as possible.

(NEW YORK) - The international community’s outpouring of support to assist victims of this week’s devastating earthquake in Haiti is encouraging, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said today.

Rescue efforts are ramping up in the Caribbean nation with the arrival of teams and supplies from around the world.

Haiti: Still Too Soon for Deadly Earthquake`s Casualty Toll

Now quake-shattered Haiti awaits aid as thousands are feared dead. Some sources place the number in the hundreds, but it is simply too early to know.

(SALEM) - The earthquake that rocked Haiti on 12 January is considered the deadliest this island nation has seen in two centuries, and it is still too early to have any real idea of what the casualty toll will be.

Russia Today Correspondent Anastasia Churkina says it is, "Mayhem and chaos." Every third building is down, three million people are affected, and six hundred thousand are homeless.

Jamaica Will Rely on International Charities to Get Aid to Haiti

Officials believe one of the biggest challenges to Jamaica's aid efforts would be in getting air and sea transporation.

(KINGSTON) - Jamaica will be relying heavily on the local branches of international charity organizations, such as the Red Cross and the Salvation Army, to help in coordinating its aid efforts to Haiti.

Pres. of the Jamaica Red Cross and V.P. of the International Federation of Red Cross, Dr, Jaslin Salmon, said the organization was "alert and ready" to play its part.