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A man walks in the rain before the arrival of Hurricane Melissa in Canizo, a village in Santiago de Cuba, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ramón Espinosa)

Hurricane Melissa leaves dozens dead in trail of destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica

October 29, 2025 at 4:35 p.m.

Hurricane Melissa left dozens dead and widespread destruction across Cuba, Haiti and Jamaica, where roofless homes, toppled utility poles and water-logged furniture dominated the landscape Wednesday.

The wife of a journalist, who was shot during an armed gang attack on the General Hospital, cries as an ambulance arrives with his body, at a different hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Haiti gang attack on journalists covering a hospital reopening leaves 2 dead, several wounded

December 24, 2024 at 6:41 p.m.

Haiti’s online media association said two reporters were killed and several others were wounded in a gang attack on Tuesday on the reopening of Port-au-Prince’s biggest public hospital.

A police officer looks on during an exchange of gunfire between gangs and police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

US prohibits airlines from flying to Haiti and UN suspends flights after planes were shot by gangs

November 12, 2024 at 5:16 p.m.

The Federal Aviation Administration announced Tuesday that it will prohibit U.S. airlines from flying to Haiti for 30 days after gangs shot two planes and the United Nations will temporarily...

Journalists take cover from the exchange of gunfire between gangs and police in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Monday, Nov. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph)

Haiti swears in a new prime minister as gangs open fire at a flight landing in the main airport

November 11, 2024 at 4:09 p.m.

Haiti’s international airport shut down temporarily on Monday after gangs opened fire at a Spirit Airlines flight landing in Port-Au-Prince.

FILE – Haiti Prime Minister Garry Conille speaks during a joint press conference with Kenya’s President William Ruto at the State House in Nairobi, Kenya, Oct. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

Haiti replaces prime minister, marking more turmoil in its democratic transition process

November 10, 2024 at 4:59 p.m.

A transitionary council created to reestablish democratic order in Haiti signed a degree Sunday firing the country’s interim Prime Minister Garry Conille and replacing him with Alix Didier Fils-Aimé, a...

In this March 14, 2020 file photo, a Venezuelan woman is carried across a river to Colombia from Venezuela, near the Simon Bolivar International Bridge in La Parada near Cucuta, Colombia. Colombian President Ivan Duque ordered the nation's border with Venezuela closed as a coronavirus containment measure.

Coronavirus hits rich and poor unequally in Latin America

March 31, 2020 at 2:47 p.m.

From Mexico City to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Santiago, Chile, the coronavirus is taking root in the world's most unequal region, where many of Latin America's first cases arrived with members...

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