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Residents ride atop a passenger transport truck as they prepare to ford one of many rivers who's bridges were washed out along the southern coast road, after the passing of Hurricane Matthew, in Port-a-Piment, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. A week after the storm smashed into southwestern Haiti, some communities along the southern coast have yet to receive any assistance, leaving residents who have lost their homes and virtually all of their belongings struggling to find shelter and potable water.(AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

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Haitians help each other regain some normalcy

by Ben Fox Associated Press, and David Mcfadden Associated PressOctober 11, 2016

Women head to a nearby river to wash clothes, in Jeremie, Haiti, Monday, Oct. 10, 2016. Almost a week after Hurricane Matthew's assault, power is still out, water and food are scarce, and officials say that young men in villages along the road between the hard-hit cities of Les Cayes and Jeremie are putting up blockades of rocks and broken branches to halt convoys of vehicles bringing relief supplies. (AP Photo/Dieu Nalio Chery)

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UN appeals for aid to Haiti

by David Mcfadden Associated Press, and Ben Fox Associated PressOctober 10, 2016

FILE - In this Sept. 9, 2016 file photo, Syrian native Abu Wa'el Dhiab rests in bed while conversing with his family via a laptop, in his apartment in Montevideo, Uruguay. An Uruguayan official said on Sept. 14 that the health of the resettled former Guantanamo detainee has taken a turn for the worse due to a hunger strike he launched to demand relocation to another country. He says he no longer wants to remain in Uruguay and would like to join his wife and daughters in Turkey. Uruguayan officials say they are trying to find another country to accept him. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico, File)

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Ex-Guantanamo prisoner out of coma, not danger in Uruguay

by Leonardo Haberkorn Associated Press Writer, and Ben Fox Associated Press WriterSeptember 15, 2016