Port-au-Prince - Between 30 and 50 students died when a school building collapsed Friday in the Petion Ville suburb of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, while more than 100 were injured.
The Evangelical Promise school in the area of Nerette collapsed at around 10 am (1500 GMT) Friday, with some 700 students inside, Haitian Radio Metropole reported. The three-storey school educated students from kindergarten to high school.
Port-au-Prince - At least 30 people, including many children, died when a school building collapsed Friday in the Petion Ville suburb of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, while more than 100 were injured, Haitian Radio Metropole reported.
The Evangelical Promise school in the area of Nerette collapsed at around 10 am (1500 GMT) Friday, with some 700 students inside, the report said. The three-storey school educated students from kindergarten to middle school.
Port-au-Prince - A school building collapsed Friday near Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and several casualties were feared, Red Cross officials involved in rescue efforts said.
The children were in their classrooms at the time of the collapse in Petionville, just outside the capital, Michaele Gedeon, president of Haiti's Red Cross told CNN. "The whole school collapsed on the kids," she said.
New York - Some 7,500 Haitians have been given jobs under programmes carried out by the UN Development Programme since the country was devastated by four consecutive hurricanes in recent months, UNDP said Wednesday.
Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, was hardest hit in August and September by hurricanes Fay, Gustav, Hanna and Ike, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless.
New York - The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday extended the mandate of its large peacekeeping operation in Haiti by 12 months, while the government there is strengthening its national police force to assume the security role now being performed by the UN.
The UN mission's new mandate will expire October 15 next year. It is now composed of 7,060 military troops and 2,091 police from dozens of countries.
The council said in a resolution that it extended the UN mandate "until the planned substantial increase of the Haitian National Police capacity to allow for a reassessment of the situation."
Port-au-Prince 
Port-au-Prince - Between 30 and 50 students died when a school building collapsed Friday in the Petion Ville suburb of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, while more than 100 were injured.
Port-au-Prince - At least 30 people, including many children, died when a school building collapsed Friday in the Petion Ville suburb of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, while more than 100 were injured, Haitian Radio Metropole reported. 
Port-au-Prince - A school building collapsed Friday near Haitian capital Port-au-Prince and several casualties were feared, Red Cross officials involved in rescue efforts said.
New York - Some 7,500 Haitians have been given jobs under programmes carried out by the UN Development Programme since the country was devastated by four consecutive hurricanes in recent months, UNDP said Wednesday.
New York - The United Nations Security Council on Tuesday extended the mandate of its large peacekeeping operation in Haiti by 12 months, while the government there is strengthening its national police force to assume the security role now being performed by the UN.
