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Members of a transitional presidential council who will be responsible for selecting a new prime minister for Haiti noted that as soon as the council is officially installed, they would help “put Haiti back on the path of democratic legitimacy, stability and dignity.”
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Most people with dengue will show no signs of infection or experience only mild symptoms, but in rare cases infections can become severe and potentially fatal.
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Among the communities targeted were Pétion-Ville, Meyotte, Diègue and Métivier. The attacks came two days after gangs went on a rampage through some upscale neighborhoods in Pétion-Ville.
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Hundreds of people have taken to the streets in recent days in the city of Santiago.
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International search and rescue nonprofit Project Dynamo launched Operation: Rum Runner last week. It’s a mission to rescue stranded Americans in Haiti.
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Haiti's violent but more unified gangs uprising has forced an unpopular prime minister's resignation — but could it also block any other kind of government except theirs?
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Gangs have grown rapidly in number over the past few years. An estimated 200 criminal gangs now exist in Haiti, and around 95 in the capital, Port-au-Prince, alone. This has resulted in massive insecurity, kidnappings, and large-scale attacks on the police, politicians, journalists and civilians.
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The mysterious ailments that became known as Havana syndrome left no physical evidence of injury or disease, according to two government studies.
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Small groups of protesters have taken to the streets in the eastern Cuba city of Santiago decryng power outages lasting up to eight hours across the Caribbean nation.
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More than 30 U.S. citizens were on the government-chartered flight, officials said in a statement. It later arrived at the Miami International Airport.
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The two Republican Florida senators penned a strongly-worded letter to President Biden demanding that he inform Floridians of the White House plans to address the unfolding humanitarian and security crisis in Haiti and prevent what they anticipate to be a “drastic influx of Haitians” to the state.
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With Republicans accusing President Joe Biden and his administration of failing to enforce basic immigration laws and secure the U.S. southern border, the issue of immigration is particularly complicated in Miami-Dade, where more than half of the county’s residents were born abroad.