Haitians Flee Gangs on a Mountain Trail ‘Where Even the Dogs Don’t Go’
Urban warfare drives tens of thousands of Haitians out of Port-au-Prince along one of the last remaining escape routes, a ...
For Haiti’s kids, servitude in gangs, death on the streets leave little room for a future
The nine-year-old boys wearing matching knapsacks walk down the street in the morning light, but they are not going to school ...
Journalists, police officer killed by gangs at reopening of Haiti’s largest hospital
Four journalists and a police officer were killed Tuesday after armed gangs opened fire on them inside an old military ...
Fugitive former Suriname dictator and president Desi Bouterse dead at 79
Desi Bouterse, a former dictator and later president of Suriname who was convicted of murder and drug trafficking, died on ...
UN publishes new death toll for massacre of older people and Vodou religious leaders in Haiti
The United Nations raised the death toll of a recent massacre in which dozens of older people and Vodou religious leaders ...
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Former school resource officer sentenced to prison for sexual battery
(WKBN) – A former deputy sheriff who served as a school resource officer was sentenced to prison Monday, Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost announced. Mason Williams, 26, previously served as a ...
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American Travis Timmerman found in Damascus after being freed from Syrian prison
Dec. 12 (UPI) --Travis Timmerman, a missing American from Missouri, was freed from a Syrian prison and found Thursday outside of Damascus trying to make his way out of the country on foot.
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Haiti’s main international airport reopens a month after gang gunfire forced it to close
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti’s main international airport reopened on Wednesday to commercial flights, one month after gangs opened fire on planes. It was the second closing this year ...
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In Syria’s former ‘slaughterhouse,’ a desperate hunt for the disappeared
Syrians looking for information on people who disappeared under the former regime pick through documents at the infamous Sednaya prison near Damascus on Tuesday. (Lorenzo Tugnoli for The ...
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Haiti gang leader accused of slaughtering over 100 people after believing elders used witchcraft to sicken his son
A gang leader in Haiti who controls a key port in the country’s capital was accused of slaughtering the elderly and Vodou religious leaders in droves during a bloody campaign to avenge his son ...
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Rebel victory in Syria exposes horrors of Saydnaya prison as families search for traces of the disappeared
A man standing on a wall outside Syria's notorious Saydnaya prison near Damascus is calling out names from a sheaf of papers in his hands. Faces in the gathered crowds look up at him with a ...