PORT-AU-PRINCE — A day after reinforcements to a United Nations-backed Multinational Security Support mission arrived in Haiti, several Kenyan police officers joined Haitian police on a patrol of downtown Port-au-Prince. During the visit, one of…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Security officers had to fire shots Monday to cover Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille’s exit from a hospital in Port-au-Prince on Monday, the prime minister’s office said. Conille was visiting Haiti’s largest…
HAVANA — Island residents watched from shore today as Russian warships arrived for the second time in as many months, in a visit that Cuba called “routine.” Cuban authorities fired shots into the air to signal…
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Ganthier, a rural community 28 miles east of Port-au-Prince and 14 miles from the Dominican Republic border, was among the last holdouts from gang control in Haiti. For two years, the town’s residents…
SAN JUAN — Based on computer modeling, NOAA forecasters are predicting that a disturbance could develop into a tropical storm or hurricane in our region within two weeks. NOAA’s Weather Prediction Center – Global Tropics…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations announced $60 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Haiti during a trip Monday to the troubled Caribbean country. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield also said the U.S. Defense Department…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations traveled to Haiti today to meet leaders of the new transitional government and the Kenyan police who are the vanguard of a U.N.-backed force meant…
MOSCOW — Russia’s energy ministry has proposed an extension of a gasoline exports ban into September and October, RBC daily reported on Wednesday citing a deputy minister’s letter. Russia initially partially banned gasoline exports for…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille ordered gangs to surrender their weapons during a televised speech late Wednesday in which he acknowledged how dangerous life in Haiti’s capital and beyond has become and pledged to…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Another 200 police officers from Kenya arrived Tuesday in Haiti for a U.N.-backed mission led by the East African country to battle violent gangs that have taken over parts of the troubled Caribbean country. The officers…