By MIKE MELIA, The Associated Press

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – More than five dozen Haitian migrants detained as they sailed north through the Bahamas will be returned directly to the earthquake-ravaged country, the Bahamian prime minister said Monday.

Two Royal Bahamas Defense Force vessels intercepted a boat carrying the 62 Haitians on Saturday, Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham said.

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By FRANK BAJAK, Associated Press Writers
Un Warns It Will Cut Shipments Of Free Medicine

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – The United Nations has warned that it will cut off shipments of free medicine beginning immediately to any Haitian hospitals that it finds are charging patients.

When the catastrophic earthquake struck Jan. 12, authorities immediately decided to make all medical care free. More than 200 international medical relief groups have sent in teams to help, and millions of dollars of donated medicine has been flown in.

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A boy in Cité Soleil carries away a hard-won bucket of water from a broken water pipe where many Haitians struggled for their share. The shanty town of Cité Soleil has been left with severely diminished water resources after a powerful earthquake rocked the area on 12 January.
The world’s seven wealthiest countries said they plan to cancel the debt Haiti owes them at a meeting of the G-7 in Canada on Saturday, The BBC reports.

The announcement provides the latest indication that the international community may cancel Haiti’s economically crippling foreign debt to facilitate recovery from the country’s recent hurricane.

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Note: We’re trying to get video, If we get it we’ll put up a new post VIDEO:“Ghana Loves Haiti” Tribute Concert

Several big-name artistes and movers in the showbiz industry in Ghana are gearing up to perform at a mega concert dubbed “Ghana Loves Haiti” Tribute Concert to be held at the Accra International Conference Centre on Saturday, February 6.

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Devastated Porto-Au-Prince as seen from 250 miles above the Earth.

In what is perhaps the final frontier for Internet access, Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi shared photos he had taken of Earth from the International Space Station via his Twitter page. In addition to scenic locations and sprawling urban centers, Noguchi’s photos provide some of the first looks of Haiti’s capital, Port-Au-Prince, just weeks after it was devastated by the recent earthquake. Like the first photographs of Earth from space in the 1960s were humbling in their depiction of our planet as a fragile blue marble in the vastness of space, Noguchi’s photos not only remind us of our impact on the environment, but also how far we’ve come technologically.

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