Two jets from US-based airlines were struck by bullets on Monday while flying over Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince as Haitian authorities suspended all flights in and out of the capital amid escalating gang violence.
A Spirit Airlines plane was hit (...)
Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille has been fired by the country's ruling council less than six months after he took office.
An executive order, signed by eight of the council's nine members, named businessman and former Haiti Senate candidate (...)
At least 20 people including children have been killed after an armed gang attacked a small town in Haiti.
Another 50 were wounded as Gran Grif gang members rampaged through Pont-Sondé in the central Artibonite region about 71km (44 miles) northwest (...)
The 79th UN General Assembly, one of the largest global diplomatic events, will kick off Tuesday in New York, bringing together heads of state and government from member nations. The assembly will take place from September 24-30.
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Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance on Sunday reiterated false claims about Haitian immigrants eating the pets of residents in Springfield, Ohio.
Asked to support his claims in an interview with CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union," (...)
Hurricane Beryl, now a potentially catastrophic Category 5 storm, has set its sights on Jamaica's shoreline after leaving at least one person dead and inflicting ruin across entire islands in the Caribbean on Monday.
Beryl is marching away from the (...)
Hurricane Beryl, a powerful Category 3 storm, is expected to slam into the Caribbean on Monday, endangering several island communities with life-threatening storm surge, violent winds and flash flooding.
The hurricane's core is most at risk of (...)
Haiti's Transitional Presidential Council has tapped former Prime Minister Garry Conille to return to the position during the government's transition period, council president Edgard Leblanc Fils said Tuesday.
Conille was chosen by consensus after (...)
When Kenyan President William Ruto touched down in Beijing seven months ago, he was welcomed on the tarmac with a red carpet and cordons of Chinese troops standing at attention. Among the goals of his three-day state visit in October: securing (...)
Dominican Republic President Luis Abinader declared himself the winner of the weekend's presidential election in a race where crime and safety were among voters' biggest concerns.
Official results are still pending, but the election website shows (...)
Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned on Thursday as a new council was sworn in to lead the country gripped by deadly gang violence.
A recent outbreak of violence forced officials to move the ceremony from the capital's National Palace to the (...)
Dangerous levels of acute hunger affected a staggering 281.6 million people last year – the fifth year in a row that food insecurity has worsened – heightening growing fears of famine and "widespread death" from Gaza to Sudan and beyond, UN agencies (...)
Three million children in Haiti are in need of humanitarian assistance as continuing gang violence hampers aid delivery, the head of the UN children's agency, Unicef, has said.
Catherine Russell said the situation in gang-wracked Haiti was (...)
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has welcomed the establishment of a transitional council in Haiti tasked with choosing new political leadership and setting up elections in the crisis-torn Carribean country.
In a statement issued on Saturday by (...)
At least five aid workers, including foreigners, from a team delivering food to starving civilians in Gaza have been killed in an Israeli military strike, according to non-profit group World Central Kitchen and authorities in the besieged (...)
International food charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) is suspending its operations in Gaza following the death of seven of its workers in an Israeli air strike.
The charity said those killed were part of an aid convoy that was leaving a warehouse (...)
The UN human rights office described sexual violence in Haiti as "severely underreported and largely unpunished" in a harrowing report released Thursday that documented cases of rape and forced sexual relations with gang members, as well surging (...)
Haiti is a state out of action.
More than two weeks after the country's prime minister resigned, following a surge of violence in Port-au-Prince, details of a presidential transitional council have still not been revealed.
One of the challenges this (...)
CAP-HATIEN — Sarah Molin's life reflects the depth of Haiti's problems.
A year ago, the 20-year-old was a computer science student living in a suburb of the capital, Port-au-Prince.
But the failed state that Haiti is rapidly becoming has failed its (...)
CAP-HAITIEN — "Port-au-Prince is in panic mode," a friend in the Haitian capital texted me.
Residents of Petionville, a wealthier area of the city, are shaken after their most violent day so far in the country's spiraling security crisis.
More than (...)
The wide road that passes in front of Haiti's Toussaint Louverture International Airport has a post-apocalyptic stillness these days. Where cars and crowds of people once massed, only tendrils of smoke rise from smoldering piles of trash, sending a (...)
Dozens of US citizens have been evacuated from Haiti on a State Department charter flight as the country is paralyzed by escalating gang violence and political instability that has left once bustling streets vacant and necessities like food and gas (...)
A container carrying essential items for newborn babies and their mothers – including resuscitators and other critical supplies – was looted in Port-au-Prince on Saturday, aid agency UNICEF said in a statement, as gang violence and a humanitarian (...)
Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry has agreed to resign following weeks of mounting pressure and increasing violence in the country.
It comes after regional leaders met in Jamaica on Monday to discuss a political transition in Haiti.
Henry is (...)
Over the weekend, the violence in the capital Port-au-Prince ramped up once again. Heavily armed gangs attacked the National Palace and set part of the Interior Ministry on fire with petrol bombs.
It comes after a sustained attack on the (...)
