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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — An enormous U.S. Navy hospital ship will suspend operations off the coast of Haiti's capital in advance of Tropical Storm Irene. A Sunday statement from the U.S.

The deputy director of the Pan American Health Organization, Dr. Jon Andrus, says Port-au-Prince is "ripe for the spread of cholera" because of the poor sanitary conditions. He predicted a large upsurge in the number of cases.

A spreading cholera outbreak in rural Haiti threatened to outpace aid groups as they stepped up efforts hoping to keep the disease from reaching the squalid camps of earthquake survivors in Port-au-Prince.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — The United Nations mission in Haiti says one of its peacekeepers and a civilian woman have been shot by robbers outside a bank in the capital. U.N. police spokesman Jean-Francois Vezina says three gunmen approached on motorcycles and shot the off-duty Yemeni soldier as he left a Sogebank branch Thursday morning.

President Rene Preval and Elisabeth Debrosse Delatour married in a private ceremony at her house above Port-au-Prince on Sunday morning. The first lady is Preval's economic adviser. She previously worked for an electrical utility and a road contractor, and is the widow of former central bank chief Leslie Delatour.

As one of the most powerful people in the capital of the richest nation on earth, it wouldn’t have been surprising if Rep.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Two babies were killed when a river surging with rain from Tropical Storm Fay toppled an overcrowded bus, a U.N.