{"id":11072,"date":"2021-08-26T11:21:26","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T03:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11072"},"modified":"2021-08-26T11:21:28","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T03:21:28","slug":"un-chief-calls-on-international-community-to-help-earthquake-hit-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?p=11072","title":{"rendered":"UN chief calls on international community to help earthquake-hit Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MOSCOW, Aug 26 &#8212; UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nioGuterres has called on the international community to provide earthquake-struck Haiti with the necessary assistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re fully committed to continuing working alongside the people of Haiti in the aftermath of the earthquake that struck the country this month. I urge the international community to support our efforts &amp; help build a better future for the people of Haiti,\u201d\u00a0Guterres wrote on his Twitter page late on\u00a0Wednesday, according to Sputnik.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-11.19.08.png\" alt=\"international community\" class=\"wp-image-11073\" width=\"500\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-11.19.08.png 583w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-11.19.08-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-11.19.08-158x100.png 158w, https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-11.19.08-350x222.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Many countries, including the United States, EU members, Canada, Mexico, Venezuela have already sent humanitarian missions to Haiti, but up to 650,000 Haitians still require emergency assistance, according to the country&#8217;s authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Aug&nbsp;14, a deadly 7.2 magnitude earthquake swept Haiti, with the death toll topping 2,200 people. Over 12,000 people sustained injuries of different degrees of severity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bernama.com\/en\/world\/news.php?id=1996569\">BERNAMA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW, Aug 26 &#8212; UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nioGuterres has called on the international community to provide&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-11.19.08.png",583,370,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-11.19.08-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-11.19.08-300x190.png",300,190,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-11.19.08.png",583,370,false],"large":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-11.19.08.png",583,370,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-11.19.08.png",583,370,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-11.19.08.png",583,370,false],"newsium-slider-full":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-11.19.08.png",583,370,false],"newsium-featured":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-11.19.08.png",583,370,false],"newsium-medium":["https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Screen-Shot-2021-08-26-at-11.19.08.png",583,370,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Editor"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/?cat=59\" rel=\"category\">World<\/a>","tag_info":"World","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11072"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11074,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions\/11074"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newmalaysiatimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}