President Donald Trump pledged Monday to send more troops to the U.S. border with Mexico under an emergency declaration that he intends to sign soon after entering the White House for his second term in office.

The effort to send the new group was stalled after Democrats lost the U.S. presidential election. Kenyan President William Ruto’s uncertainties about the fate of the Kenyan-led mission in Haiti seems to have been put to rest following comments from President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of state.

Just hours after his release from prison on Thursday, Cuban opposition leader José Daniel Ferrer — one of the country’s most prominent political prisoners — called on the incoming Trump administration to make no concessions to Havana but at the same time help alleviate the island’s humanitarian crisis.

Coast Guard members opened fire off the coast of San Diego to disable a vessel smuggling people into the U.S. after two Mexican men on the boat attempted to evade a service patrol by ramming into them.

The latest information reveals that 1,041,000 people, many of whom have been displaced several times, are struggling amid an intensifying humanitarian crisis and widening gang violence.

Long before Trump expressed interest in a name change, conquerors have battled to claim the wealth of its rich waters.

The powerful gang coalition known as Viv Ansanm — which has been launching deadly coordinated attacks all across Port-au-Prince since February of last year — is among several organizations listed on a document sent to the 15-member Caribbean Community bloc that suggests ways Haiti’s troubled political transition can be saved.

Greenlanders are intensifying their push for independence from Denmark and will soon hold a general election that will take the temperature of that relationship. President-elect’s Trump’s interest in Greenland gives the territory the ability to play the U.S. and Denmark off of each other.

The race to be Canada’s next prime minister is still at the starting line and Donald Trump has already cast a shadow over it.

The first fighting contingents of soldiers and military policemen from Latin America arrived in Port-au-Prince on Friday to join the armed international security mission in the country’s fight against terrorizing gangs.

Ricardo Grossi, the CEO of Brazil’s Serra Verde Group, sees a chance for the company to become an alternative supplier to the West for critical minerals, especially if China expands export controls against the U.S. to more metals.

Even as Cubans have been dying because of shortages of medicines and supplies at hospitals, and the government claims it doesn’t have the money to buy them due to U.S. sanctions, companies run by Cuba’s military have stashed away billions of dollars, according to financial records obtained by the Miami Herald.

The U.N. estimates that the number of children in the ranks of Haiti’s gangs has increased by 70% in the past year, and that children now make up roughly half of the gangs’ fighting force.

Donald Trump has selected Miami-Dade County commissioner Kevin Cabrera to serve as ambassador to Panama amid Trump’s recent threats to retake control of the Panama Canal over fees charged U.S. ships in the waterway.

In a video addressed to the left-leaning group known as ALBA — which counts Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua as members — the head of Haiti’s U.S.-backed Transitional Presidential Council asked for “security and food” assistance on behalf of Haiti.

A key former ally of Justin Trudeau’s said he would vote to topple the government, a move that would likely plunge the country into an election early next year unless the prime minister seeks a temporary suspension of parliament. 

Mexico is prepared to receive its nationals living in the U.S. if President-elect Donald Trump follows through on his deportation pledges, but it won’t serve as a “safe third country” for migrants of other nationalities.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported 271,484 immigrants to nearly 200 countries last fiscal year, the highest tally in a decade, according to the agency’s annual report published Thursday.

U.S. European Command and portions of U.S. Special Operations Command may have put sensitive information at risk by haphazardly handing out mobile devices to personnel for three years, Pentagon investigators said.