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                                                    </description><title>GDACS EMM News Feed</title><item><title>Possibly 50,000 killed in quake-Haitian president says</title><link>http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N13137542.htm</link><description>(For more on the earthquake, click [nHAITI]) * U.N. mission chief is among those killed-Preval * Poor Haiti ill-equipped to deal with disaster * Destruction in the capital called 'massive and broad' (Updates with more details) By Joseph Guyler Delva and Tom Brown PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jan 13 (Reuters) -....</description><pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:07:00 +0100</pubDate><source url="http://www.alertnet.org/">alertnet</source><iso:language xmlns:iso="http://www.iso.org/3166">en</iso:language><guid isPermaLink="false">alertnet-7db0dcd128d912a3a0a5244c47973a6c</guid><category>PeaceKeeping</category><category>NaturalDisasters</category><category>Echo</category><georss:point xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss">18.54299 -72.343102</georss:point><sortelement xmlns="emm">20100113220700</sortelement></item><item><title>Another small earthquake jolts U.S. Silicon Valley</title><link>http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/09/content_12779445.htm</link><description>SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 8 (Xinhua) -- An earthquake of magnitude 3.8 struck the Silicon Valley area in the United States on Friday, a day after another tremor jolted the same region. 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THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: This is CNN Student News. Give us ten minutes, and we'll give you the news of the day, commercial-free. 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