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A group of American citizens of Haitian descent hold up their passports in a long line outside of the American embassy as they try to escape Haiti.Chris Hondros

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Young children are seen at an orphanage on January 18, 2010 following the earthquake that hit in Port au Prince on January 12, 2010. More than 105,000 food rations have been distributed to victims of Haiti's devastating earthquake since the emergency relief operation began last week, the UN's food relief agency said.JULIEN TACK

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Haitian police arrest locals after they found a machete knife in their possession in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.Uriel Sinai

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A man carries an injured girl on his head to a clinic on Rue Petion in Port-au-Prince.Michael Laughlin

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A woman sweeps debris out of the street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. On the streets, people are still dying, pregnant women are giving birth and the injured are showing up in wheelbarrows and on people's backs at hurriedly erected field hospitals.Gerald Herbert

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A sheet of stamps released by the French post office Monday Jan. 18, 2010, in Paris, in a demonstration of solidarity with the victims of Haiti's earthquake. For each stamp sold for 1 euro (US$.1.45), the FrenchRed Cross will receive euro 0,44 (US$. 0.638) to help the victims in Haiti.Michel Euler

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Haitian citizens crowd a ship near Port-au-Prince, Haiti after earthquake devastation left many homeless, injured and hungry.MC2(SW) CANDICE VILLARREAL

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Looters fight for goods taken from a destroyed store in Port-au-Prince January 18, 2010. Thousands more troops will help U.N. peacekeepers keep order on Haiti's increasingly lawless streets as tens of thousands of survivors wait desperately for aid.CARLOS BARRIA

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Enette Dumerin sits on the floor of a C-17 Globemaster with her twins Carlebre Dumerin, left, and Jeff Dumerin, both 3, as the family departs Port-Au-Prince's airport for Orlando.Joshua Trujillo

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People stand at a refugee camp located near a forward operating base for the U.S. 82nd Airborne Division in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Jan. 18, 2010. Troops, doctors and aid workers flowed into Haiti on Monday even while hundreds of thousands of Tuesday's quake victims struggled to find water or food.Jae C. Hong

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People cling to a tree as a U.S. helicopter, carrying disaster relief supplies, flies over a refugee camp in Port-au-Prince, Monday.Jae C. Hong

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Canadian army medic Richard Robichaud treats a lady at a make-shift hospital of the Belgian First Aid and Support Team (B-FAST) in a suburb of the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince.WOLFGANG RATTAY

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Haitians leave the UN compound at the Port-au-Prince airport with food and other supplies, January 18, 2010. European Union institutions and member states have offered more than 400 million euros ($575.6 million) in emergency and longer-term assistance to Haiti after the earthquake there.WOLFGANG RATTAY

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