El Salvador’s congress approves sending troop contingent to Haiti
SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — El Salvador’s Congress approved a proposal to send a contingent of soldiers to Haiti under the auspices of the United Nations to handle medical…
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UN report warns of famine, aggravated by conflicts and climate shocks
ROME (AP) — Severe food crises threaten hundreds of thousands of people in vulnerable areas, including the Palestinian territories, Sudan, South Sudan, Haiti, and Mali, said a report released Thursday…
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More than 1,200 have been killed in Haiti as gangs launch fresh attacks, UN says
PORT-AU-PRINCE — There is no sleeping inside Port-au-Prince’s Solino neighborhood. Since members of a powerful gang coalition began carrying out a new round of violent attacks, clouds of smoke billow…
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A key police veteran in Haiti’s gang wars, senior cop is now fighting for his freedom
PORT-AU-PRINCE — As U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken traversed Haiti’s gang-controlled capital in early September, a sinister plot was unfolding. On the afternoon of September 5, a man driving…
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U.S. deportation flight lands in Haiti amid spreading violence, attack on Catholic nuns
PORT-AU-PRINCE — Days after a Catholic mission that treats up to 30,000 poor people a year became the latest target of armed gangs in a new wave of coordinated attacks,…
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Haiti sees a rise in killings and police executions with children targeted
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Some 1,740 people were reported killed or injured in Haiti from July to September, a nearly 30% increase over the previous trimester, according to the latest numbers…
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Cruise operators reap benefits of their own private islands
MIAMI — Major cruise operators are steering their ships — and millions of dollars in investments — into their own private destinations packed with excursions, beaches, bars and restaurants. The…
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A gang leader in Haiti is injured in a shootout with Haitian and Kenyan police
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — A leader of one of Haiti’s most powerful gangs was injured in a shootout with Haitian and Kenyan police in their first major incursion into gang-controlled territory…
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Gang coalition in Haiti spreads violence to Port-au-Prince neighborhood, setting fire to homes
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — A gang coalition on Saturday reinforced its attacks on one of the few communities in the Haitian capital not under the control of criminal groups, seeking to…
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Armed gangs in Haiti target U.S. Embassy vehicles, UN chopper in escalation of attacks
P9RT-AU-PRINCE — Armed gangs have attacked U.S. Embassy vehicles in Haiti, where a fresh offensive by a powerful gang coalition has left at least one armored vehicle with a shattered…