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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,
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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
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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
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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
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a resolution condemning “in the strongest terms” the increasing gang violence and criminal activity in Haiti that is
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille told the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday that recently deployed Kenyan police will be crucial to helping
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