Tropical Storm Melissa trudges through Caribbean as forecasters warn it will quickly intensify

Tropical Storm Melissa is plodding through the central Caribbean, with forecasters warning it could soon strengthen and brush ...

As Haiti, Jamaica, Cuba brace for tropical storm, World Food Program preps response

With slow-moving Tropical Storm Melissa expected to strengthen into a Category 1 hurricane as soon as Saturday as it churns ...

Record hunger, displacements continue to hit Haiti as hospitals, businesses close

The French medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières is known for working in some of the world’s most difficult combat zones. But in violence-torn Haiti, the stray bullets have become so frequent that ...

Haiti court orders new probe into July 2021 presidential slaying in key ruling

Justice officials in Haiti are asking the U.S. and Canada for help after a court of appeals ordered a new investigation into ...
SFGate

Hail of gunfire interrupts key meeting of Haiti's leaders trying to fend off gangs

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Heavy gunfire erupted in downtown Port-au-Prince on Thursday after Haiti’s leaders made the rare and defiant decision to meet at the National Palace to symbolize the ...
Seattle Times

UNICEF warns that number of children in Haiti displaced by violence has nearly doubled

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — The number of children displaced by violence in Haiti has nearly doubled to 680,000, according to a new UNICEF report released Wednesday that warns minors are increasingly ...
Wyoming News

'Daily struggle for survival' for Haiti children, UN report says

Fifteen-year-old Ania was raped by several men as she was fetching water, one of hundreds of thousands of young victims of gang violence that has engulfed Haiti and turned children's lives into a ...
The Washington Post

New U.N. force for Haiti offers hope, if the U.S. stays involved

Gangs control 90 percent of the capital in Port-au-Prince, but perhaps not for long. Members of the Haitian armed forces patrol near the National Palace in Port-au-Prince on Oct. 1. (Clarens ...
standardmedia.co.ke

Kenya Police in Haiti likely to return soon, hints Murkomen

Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen at the Nairobi edition of Jukwaa la Usalama. [Murkomen, X] Interior Cabinet Secretary Kipchumba Murkomen has hinted that Kenyan police officers currently ...
Wall Street Journal

U.S. Pulls Plug on Haiti’s Last Big Industry

For nearly two decades, the U.S. provided a lifeline to Haiti: duty-free textile imports that drew American apparel manufacturers and created tens of thousands of jobs in the Western Hemisphere’s ...
The New York Times

U.N. Security Council Approves Larger Force to Fight Gangs in Haiti

The vote on Tuesday would establish a force of up to 5,500 soldiers and police officers. It was unclear what countries were willing to contribute personnel or money. By Frances Robles In the latest ...
USA Today

Were Jason Taylor and wife caught in a 'Coldplay video' situation?

It's OK! This isn't like that other Coldplay concert video that went mega-viral this summer. It's just Hall of Famer Jason Taylor watching two of his former teams -- the New York Jets and Miami ...