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Source: CNN A magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck near Haiti on Saturday night, according to the US Geological Survey. There was damage in the northern sections of the country, President Jovenel Moïse tweeted. snip... The USGS said the center of the quake was about 11 miles northwest of the city of Port-de-Paix. It was only 7.2 miles deep. In January 2010, a 7.1 magnitude earthquake killed an estimated 220,000 to 300,000 people in Haiti. Tens of thousands of people are still displaced as a result of the quake.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti -- President Jean-Bertrand Aristide says international community must come to Haiti's aid to prevent thousands of deaths and a wave of boat people MORE...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) - A commuter passenger plane exploded and crashed after take off Sunday from Haiti's northern city of Cap-Haitien, killing all 21 aboard, news reports said. Five minutes after it took off Sunday afternoon, witnesses saw smoke billowing from the twin-propeller plane which sent distress signals to the Cap-Haitien control tower, private Radio Maxima reported. There was an explosion and crash, witnesses told the radio station's director Jean-Robert Lalane, who spoke to The Associated Press AP by telephone from the scene. It was unclear whether the explosion came before or after the crash, he said. Lalane said...