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How a top UN official was plucked from the rubble

Jens Kristensen, the senior humanitarian officer with the United Nations stabilization mission in Haiti, tells what it was like to be trapped for five days and saved by a search-and-rescue team from Fairfax, Va.
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UN confronts largest tragedy in own history

The Haiti earthquake, on top of the Haitian toll, has the United Nations confronting the largest single loss of life for its own personnel in its 65-year history.
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Head of UN, and other key employees, missing

The United Nation's is saying the head of the UN mission in Haiti is missing along with other key personnel after Tuesday's earthquake. There is mounting concern about the loss of some of the most experienced aid workers in Haiti at a time when they're needed most.

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When journalist Mae Azango wrote about a secret women's circumcision ritual in Liberia, she received death threats.