PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — One of Haiti’s leaders on Thursday asked the world to help his troubled Caribbean country fight what he characterized as a war against relentless gang violence and widespread hunger. Laurent Saint-Cyr, head…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (AP) — Immigration agents in the United States arrested Haitian businessman Dimitri Vorbe because of his alleged ties to violent gangs in his troubled Caribbean country, the U.S. State Department said Wednesday. Vorbe was arrested Tuesday and placed…
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Gustavo Petro on Tuesday called for a criminal investigation against U.S. President Donald Trump and other officials involved in this month’s deadly strikes on boats in the Caribbean that the White…
HAVANA (Reuters) – Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Wednesday called for the United Nations to stop the United States from starting a war in the region, amid rising tensions due to a military buildup in…
PORT-AU-PRINCE — United Nations humanitarian chief Tom Fletcher walks through the sprawling displacement camp in Haiti’s gang-ravaged capital, moving in silent disbelief through a labyrinth of narrow alleyways, hanging laundry and makeshift shelters cobbled together…
PORT-AU-PRINCE — The United Nations on Tuesday allocated an additional $9 million in emergency funds to Haiti amid the country’s worsening gang violence and a growing hunger crisis. The funds were directed by Tom Fletcher,…
“I don’t have anywhere to go. I don’t have anywhere to go.” Rose Marie Michel paced frantically in the middle of a once-bustling street in Port-au-Prince’s Delmas 30 neighborhood, overcome with disbelief as she tried…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) — The head of the U.N. commission on Latin America, Jose Manuel Salazar, urged the region’s countries to diversify their export and import markets and to integrate their economies in response to…
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) — Haitian businessman Laurent Saint-Cyr took over his country’s leadership on Thursday, the last phase of its transition before it is mandated to hand power to a democratically elected successor, but a top…
CAIRO (Reuters) — Six more people died of starvation and malnutrition in Gaza over the past 24 hours, its health ministry said on Sunday as Israel said it allowed a delivery of fuel to the enclave, in…