CHARLOTTE AMALIE — Some 240 service members from across the United States provided no-cost health care to more than 2,000 Virgin Islands residents from June
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Gang violence in Haiti has displaced nearly 580,000 people, a new UN report says
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Surging violence in Haiti from clashes with armed gangs since March has displaced nearly 580,000 people, according to a new report from the U.N.
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Haiti police meet Kenyan commanders ahead of deployment of UN-backed mission to fight gangs
NAIROBI (AP) — A team of Haitian police commanders on Tuesday met Kenya’s inspector general of police ahead of a planned deployment to the violence-hit Caribbean country
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VING joins U.S. Army North, FEMA as it preps for ‘unprecedented’ hurricane season
SAN ANTONIO — Ahead of what will likely be an active hurricane season, U.S. Army North trains to support civilian federal agencies in timely and
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Russian sub deployment off Florida worries Pentagon that Moscow will stalk U.S. coasts
HAVANA — Russia’s deployment of a naval flotilla to Cuba on Wednesday was generally consistent with routine military posturing by Moscow — with one exceptional
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Haitian leaders oust police chief and appoint a new one as gang violence claims officers’ lives
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Haitian leaders have ousted Frantz Elbé, the beleaguered director of Haiti’s National Police, following months of criticism that he wasn’t doing enough to protect officers
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Sweden says Russian military jet violated airspace
STOCKHOLM — Swedish fighter jets intercepted a Russian military aircraft after it briefly violated Sweden’s airspace on Friday east of the Baltic island of Gotland,
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Russian navy fleet, including frigate, nuclear-powered sub, arrives in Cuba
HAVANA — Russia’s Admiral Gorshkov frigate and the nuclear-powered submarine Kazan, accompanied by a tug boat and a fuel ship, have arrived in Cuba for
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Haiti’s transitional council appoints new Cabinet tasked with leading a country under siege by gangs
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Haiti’s transitional council appointed a new Cabinet on Tuesday, marking the final step in rebuilding the government that will lead a country
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Haiti’s interim PM stable after hospitalization for ‘slight illness’
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Haiti’s new interim prime minister, Garry Conille, is in stable condition after being hospitalized for an unspecified illness on Saturday afternoon, his office
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