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.
A delegation from one of Turkey’s biggest pro-Kurdish political parties met a leading figure of the Kurdish movement in prison Saturday, the latest step in a tentative process to end the country’s 40-year conflict, the party said.
Hospital officials called county deputies when Cpl. Carlos Zamudio, who they reported as having injuries to his head, brought his “severely” injured wife, Savannah Encke, into the emergency room. She died shortly after.
China and Britain restarted economic and financial talks on Saturday after a six-year hiatus during a visit by Britain’s Treasury chief to Beijing, as the U.K.’s Labour government seeks to reset strained ties with the world’s second-largest economy.
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.
Intelligence officials in Syria’s new de facto government thwarted a plan by the Islamic State group to set off a bomb at a Shiite shrine in the Damascus suburb of Sayyida Zeinab, state media reported Saturday.
The University of Michigan is ending a two decade-long joint institute with a university in Shanghai that provided global academic opportunities to hundreds of students. It comes after a congressional report argued that federally funded researchers have helped China advance critical technologies, including military applications.
Japan and Indonesia have pledged to deepen economic and defense ties during a visit by the Japanese prime minister.
President-elect Donald Trump has tossed expansionist rhetoric at U.S. allies and potential adversaries with arguments that the frontiers of American power need to be extended into Canada and the Danish territory of Greenland, and southward to include the Panama Canal.
A retired Navy intelligence officer has avoided additional prison time after he was cleared of the most serious charges in his U.S. Capitol attack trial alongside Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes.
On Saturday, NSA Naples Support Site said the ammonia leak had been contained but the health advisory would remain in effect until the evening. Additional information would be posted as needed, the base said.
A group of Uyghurs who were detained in Thailand over a decade ago say that the Thai government is preparing to deport them to China, alarming activists who say the men are at risk of abuse and torture if they are sent back.
Blue Angels aviators were in Hawaii this week to lay the groundwork for the squadron’s performance at the Kaneohe Bay Air Show Aug. 9-10.
President Joe Biden will deliver a farewell address to the nation Wednesday from the Oval Office, five days before President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in.
Keir Starmer will travel to Ukraine in the coming weeks to discuss the possibility of deploying an international peacekeeping force there after the conflict with Russia has ended, his first visit to the war-torn nation since becoming U.K. prime minister half a year ago.
While executive actions are common on the first day of a new White House, what Trump and his team are reportedly planning is an executive punch unseen in modern times. Trump adviser Stephen Miller outlined for the GOP senators the border security and immigration enforcement measures that are likely to launch soonest.
The administrator of the Panama Canal said in an interview with The Associated Press Friday that no privileges are given to any nation, and Chinese companies are not meddling in its operations. Trump has suggested the U.S. should take back control of the canal.
More than 600 California National Guard troops have been activated and eight modular airborne firefighting systems are gearing up to assist with the fires devastating the Los Angeles area, the Pentagon said Friday.
“I think people misunderstand what I am here to do. I think also people misunderstand what the civil disobedience is. In this case, the disobedience is not claiming a toilet seat. The disobedience is claiming a seat in Congress and being in an institution where some people don’t want me here simply because of who I am. That’s the disobedience. The civil part is taking the indignities that come with that with my chin up.”