Gasoline Truck Explodes In Northern Haiti; Dozens Killed
Officials in Haiti say a truck carrying gasoline has exploded and killed more than 50 people.
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Officials in Haiti say a truck carrying gasoline has exploded and killed more than 50 people.
Christian Aid Ministries said three more hostages have been released by a violent gang in Haiti.
Lifesaving food is loaded up and ready to be shipped out to people in the Haiti quake zone from the Food for the Poor warehouse. But getting food to them has been very difficult because of a fuel shortage and gang violence.
Following more unrest in Haiti, Americans continue to be advised not to travel to the country if they don't have to.
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The leader of the Haitian 400 Mawozo gang who kidnapped 17 US and Canadian missionaries has threatened to kill the hostages if he doesn't get what he's demanding, according to a video released Thursday.
Continued unrest in Haiti, including the recent kidnapping of mostly American missionaries, has made efforts more difficult for South Florida organizations who are trying to get needed supplies to the country.
CBS News has confirmed the FBI is helping with hostage negotiations in Haiti after 17 Christian missionaries were abducted there over the weekend. The State Department says officials are in contact with the families of the abducted group, which includes sixteen Americans and one Canadian, five of them children.
Ten people were arrested for civil disobedience on Monday while temporarily blocking the entrance to PortMiami while protesting Haitian deportations.
The turmoil in Haiti continues and now even those who are providing aid are targets.
Seventeen missionaries from a U.S.-based organization have been kidnapped by a notorious Haitian gang known for brazen kidnappings and killings, according to police.
Earthquake relief efforts in Haiti got a boost Thursday as Broward Health announced they are giving a $250,000 donation of PPE and medical supplies to the nation.
Dozens of box trucks will be required to transport the pallets of humanitarian aid once the shipment arrives in Haiti, an undertaking that is unusual.
A group of national Haitian diaspora leaders from Miami is now at the Del Rio, Texas border and they say that what happened there is unacceptable.
Citing the "inhumane and counterproductive decision to deport thousands of Haitians" the U.S. southern border, U.S Special Envoy to Haiti Daniel Foote has resigned.
A top U.S. envoy to Haiti tendered his resignation, citing the Biden administration's "inhumane" effort to expel hundreds of Haitian migrants to their home country, which is recovering from a deadly earthquake and plagued by political instability, widespread insecurity and crippling poverty.
All across South Florida the outrage continues as images emerge of border patrol agents on horseback using their reins as whips to corral Haitian migrants.
People protesting the deportation of Haitian migrants at the southern border took to the streets of northwest Miami-Dade near a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services office on Wednesday.
Former Sen. Dwight Bullard says the images look airily similar to the plight of African-American slaves.
In one case, an agent on horseback, with what appears to be a whip in his hand, can be seen grabbing the shirt of a migrant, who was desperately trying to escape.
They came to the U.S. border recently after hearing rumors that they would be allowed to cross.
A humanitarian crisis is unfolding in Del Rio, Texas, where close to 14,000 migrants are encamped under an international bridge and surrounding areas.
More than 10,000 mostly Haitian migrants are sheltering under an international bridge in Mexico, waiting to be processed by immigration authorities in the United States.
Haiti's chief prosecutor has asked a judge to charge Prime Minister Ariel Henry in the slaying of the late President Jovenel Moïse and asked other officials to bar him from leaving the country.
More donations are leaving South Florida, headed to hard-hit Haiti following this month's earthquake.
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In the United States alone, incidents increased for the fourth consecutive year in 2024, reaching just under 9,500 reported cases.
His wife, daughters and brother were murdered, but Eli Sharabi said he still finds hope in the darkest of times.
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The U.S. military says it struck three more alleged drug-carrying boats in the Eastern Pacific, the latest in a campaign of vessel strikes ordered by the Trump administration that have killed at least 95 people.
President Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against the BBC on Monday over a documentary that spliced parts of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech on the Ellipse.
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President Trump signed an order designating illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, directing agencies to do more to combat the drug.
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