PORT-AU-PRINCE — American author Mitch Albom was evacuated from Haiti amid ongoing gang violence and unrest. Albom, 65, was visiting his orphanage Have Faith Haiti when he found himself stranded. “The airports were closed, the ports…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Haiti’s future is being planned on two tracks — one involving traditional political power, the other focused on the power of gangs. After an intense session of international diplomacy in Jamaica, a group of…
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Kenya is halting plans to deploy at least 1,000 police officers to Haiti following the unprecedented violence that erupted in the Caribbean nation and the announcement by its Prime Minister Ariel Henry that he would…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Four million people face “acute food insecurity” and one million of them are one step away from famine, the U.N. food agency’s director in the conflict-wracked Caribbean nation said Tuesday. Jean-Martin Bauer…
PORT-AU-PRINCE — An ex-cop who likes to give news conferences while wielding a high-powered rifle and a young criminal as fond of starring in rap videos as he is of trafficking arms and drugs. These…
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian military transport plane with 15 people on board crashed today while taking off from an air base in western Russia, the Defense Ministry said. It said the Il-76 aircraft with…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Haiti’s prime minister was last seen in Puerto Rico, negotiating his return to a homeland gripped by violence and controlled by heavily armed gangsters. With his fate in the air and the situation…
KINGSTON (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday announced an additional $100 million to finance the deployment of a multinational force to Haiti following a meeting with Caribbean leaders in Jamaica to…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced today that he would resign once a transitional presidential council is created, bowing to international pressure to save the country overwhelmed by violent gangs that some…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mstyslav Chernov’s “20 Days in Mariupol,” a harrowing first-person account of the early days of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, won the best documentary Oscar on Sunday night. A joint production of…