The Reverend Jean-Bertrand Aristide (born 1953) was elected president of Haiti by a landslide in 1990 but then was deposed by a military coup in 1991. A radical populist, acclaimed by the masses and f...
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Gunmen abducted 10 children after hijacking a school bus and another car Wednesday in brazen daylight assaults, according to local media reports.Haitian police spokesman Frantz Lerebours confirmed ...
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Port-au-Prince (dpa) - UN peacekeepers in Haiti, who have stepped
up patrols in one of the most violent slums in Port-au-Prince in an
operation against armed gangs, reported...
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In a Jan. 2 story about the U.N. secretary-general's new spokeswoman, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Michele Montas' husband was killed in April 2000 after his radio show criticized...
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The number of Haitian migrants intercepted on their way to U.S. shores has risen, with nearly as many stopped in April as in all of last year, the Coast Guard said Monday.More than 360 migrants bro...
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The United Nations said Tuesday it will send 350 more peacekeepers to Haiti in the latest effort to flush out armed gangs from the capital's slums.The light infantry battalion of Nepalese soldiers ...
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The U.S. defended on Wednesday its anti-drug efforts in Haiti, two days after the Caribbean nation's president accused America and other major drug-consuming countries of failing to adequately figh...
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The Security Council will extend the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti for eight months following an agreement between the United States and China on the length of the new mandate, council diploma...
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U.N. troops traded gunfire with armed gangs Wednesday after seizing an abandoned primary school that had been used to stage attacks on the peacekeepers, a U.N. official said. Witnesses said one per...
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U.N. peacekeepers and Haitian police seized the last remaining gang stronghold in Haiti's largest slum on Wednesday, the latest in a series of military crackdowns aimed at stabilizing the impoveris...
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A former paramilitary leader wanted in Haiti on murder and torture charges insisted Monday that he has become a scapegoat for atrocities in the Caribbean nation and would be killed if he were force...
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Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Gunmen kidnap 10 children in Haiti
