Haiti
Haiti on the brink: US and neighbours step in, prime minister resigns
With the country’s leader having resigned and being stranded in Puerto Rico, gangs are running free and regional partners and Washington have come to the rescue.
- by Danica Coto
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Police rescue hostages after gang storms Haiti hospital
Jose Ulysse, director of the Fontaine Hospital Centre in Port-au-Prince, said police arrived with three armoured trucks to evacuate 40 children and 70 patients.
- by Evens Sanon
‘Completely unusual’: Haiti blocks flights used by migrants going to US southern border
There were no charter flights from Port-au-Prince to Nicaragua last January. Three daily flights that began in late July had grown to 11 flights a day, said one analyst.
- by Danica Coto and Evens Sanon
Pastor leads churchgoers with machetes to remove gang, who open fire
Several people were killed and others injured in Haiti as hundreds of churchgoers, some armed with machetes, proved no match for gang members with assault rifles.
- by Evens Sanon
The 19-year-old giving disaster-ravaged Haiti reason to cheer
It was a miracle that the Caribbean nation qualified for a maiden Women’s World Cup at all. That the football minnows came close to upsetting England was almost unfathomable.
- by Emma Kemp
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England kick off World Cup campaign against minnows Haiti
The reigning European champions are one of the favourites for this tournament. Can their Caribbean rivals pull off what would be a shock at Suncorp Stadium?
- by Emma Kemp
Haiti gang that kidnapped missionary group seeks $US1m ransom per hostage
The gang kidnapped 17 members of a US-based missionary group and has demanded a $US17 million ransom, according to Haiti’s justice minister.
- by Danica Coto and Evens Sanon
Notorious Haitian gang blamed for kidnapping 17 missionaries from US, Canada
The US government has been urged to forcibly free the group or negotiate their release without paying a ransom.
- by Cassandra Garrison
‘A worse case of worst-case scenarios’: Thousands under bridge trying to get into Texas
They are on the move again, embarking on a dangerous journey to the US with people smugglers managing the trip, say border authorities and refugee groups.
- by Arelis Hernández and Nick Miroff
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