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First charter flight with US citizens fleeing Haiti lands in Miami

Mar. 17, 2024 21:17 PM EDT

MIAMI (AP) — A charter flight carrying dozens of U.S. citizens fleeing spiraling gang violence in Haiti landed Sunday in Miami, U.S. State Department officials said. More than 30 U.S. citizens were on the government-chartered flight, officials said in a statement. It arrived in the...

Undeterred: Kansas City crowds go to St. Patrick's Day parade, month after violence at Chiefs' rally

Mar. 17, 2024 18:50 PM EDT

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — April Coleman spent Sunday cavorting in the street with family and friends, passing out green beads at the St. Patrick's Day parade in Kansas City, Missouri, and she said she would not be deterred by last month's deadly shooting at another big mass gathering. ...

Looting is on the rise in Haiti. Among the victims: UNICEF and Guatemala's consul

Mar. 17, 2024 14:56 PM EDT

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — As Haiti once again spirals into chaos with another wave of gang violence, a number of government and aid agencies reported Saturday that their facilities and aid supplies have been looted. Gangs have raged through Haiti in recent weeks, attacking key...

Arizona authorities say a road rage incident led to a motorist's death. The other man was arrested.

Mar. 16, 2024 17:10 PM EDT

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities in Arizona said Saturday that a 47-year-old man was shot and killed in an apparent road rage incident in Tucson. The Pima Count Sheriff's Department said it arrested Jason Jameson, 41, in connection with the Friday death of Jeffrey Honer. ...

Hunger soars and aid dwindles as gangs in Haiti suffocate the country

Mar. 16, 2024 15:30 PM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A crowd of about 100 people tried to shove through a metal gate in Haiti’s capital as a guard with a baton pushed them back, threatening to hit them. Undeterred, children and adults alike, some of them carrying babies, kept elbowing each other trying to enter. ...

Congo reinstates the death penalty after more than 20 years as it struggles to deal with militants

Mar. 15, 2024 11:18 AM EDT

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Congo has lifted a more than two-decade-old moratorium on the death penalty as authorities struggle to curb violence and militant attacks in the country, according to a justice ministry statement released on Friday. The statement, dated earlier this week,...

Ramadan prayers in Jerusalem pass without the violence feared amid the Gaza war

Mar. 15, 2024 11:17 AM EDT

JERUSALEM (AP) — The first Friday prayers of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan passed without violence at the revered Al-Aqsa mosque under tight Israeli restrictions, amid fears the ongoing war Israel-Hamas war would spark clashes in Jerusalem's Old City. Hamas militants have called...

Violence in Syria is on the rise while aid is flagging as the civil war enters its 14th year

Mar. 15, 2024 10:15 AM EDT

AL-NAYRAB, Syria (AP) — For years, Syria’s civil war has been a largely frozen conflict, the country effectively carved up into areas controlled by the Damascus government of President Bashar Assad, various opposition groups and Syrian Kurdish forces. But as the conflict entered...

A plan to find new leadership for Haiti is moving forward, Caribbean officials say

Mar. 15, 2024 01:39 AM EDT

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A plan to create a transitional presidential council is moving forward after a majority of Haitian parties and coalitions submitted the names of those charged with finding new leaders for the country, Caribbean officials said Thursday. The names were...

In Mexico, a once glittering lake is being sucked dry by development, drought and lawlessness

Mar. 14, 2024 20:22 PM EDT

VALLE DE BRAVO, Mexico (AP) — Once a glittering weekend getaway for wealthy residents of Mexico City, Valle de Bravo has been reduced to a shrinking, increasingly polluted patch of mud flats and water by a combination of drought, water transfers to the capital, bad planning and lawlessness. ...