Tag: organized crime
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Residents in rural Haiti town staying away amid calls to return after gang attack
BASSIN-BLEU, Haiti — Days after a criminal gang stormed this rural village in Haiti’s northwest, setting fire to the local police substation and looting homes, residents remain gripped by fear amid concerns that the violence isn’t over. On Saturday, normally a busy day for the area’s 30,000-residents, streets remained deserted with torched vehicles, while the…
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New attacks by IS-linked group in Mozambique leave over 70 children missing. Thousands have fled
Aid agencies and local authorities say a surge of new attacks by an Islamic State-affiliated group in northern Mozambique has left more than 70 children missing and caused 100,000 people to flee their homes
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Officials say Haiti’s prime minister has landed in Puerto Rico as he tries to reach Haiti to quell growing gang attacks
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Officials say Haiti’s prime minister has landed in Puerto Rico as he tries to reach Haiti to quell growing gang attacks.
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Gangs in Haiti try to seize control of main airport in newest attack on key government sites
Heavily armed gangs have tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport as they exchanged gunfire with police and soldiers trying to repel them
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White House sounds alarm that Haiti is ‘rapidly deteriorating’ as gangs move on key targets
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration is alarmed over what it is describing as a “rapidly deteriorating security situation” in Haiti as the country’s armed gangs broadened their attacks on critical infrastructure Sunday, launching an assault against the police academy after storming two prisons in the capital and the port the night before. The gangs have…
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Haiti declares a curfew as it tries to restore order after weekend jailbreak, explosion of violence
Haiti’s government has declared a state of emergency and nighttime curfew in a bid to regain control of the streets after an explosion of violence over the weekend saw armed gang members storm the country’s two biggest prisons
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Police in Haiti struggle against gangs storming prison in latest surge of violence
Police in Haiti are urgently appealing for help as they struggle to hold back gangs trying to storm the country’s main prison in a major escalation of violence sweeping the troubled Caribbean nation
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Mexican police arrest members of drug gang behind the alleged killing of 8 people in Cancun
Prosecutors have arrested six members of a drug gang in the Mexican resort of Cancun that allegedly killed and hacked up five people with a machete and dumped three other victims in a shallow grave
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How a grieving mother tried to ‘build a bridge’ with the militant convicted in her son’s murder
A new book describes a series of conversations between the mother of an American hostage who was brutally murdered by Islamic State militants in Syria and one of the men who contributed to his death
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3 people killed in alleged extremist attack at Turkey’s largest courthouse
Two people attacked Turkey’s largest courthouse before being shot dead in an exchange of fire that also left one other person dead and five wounded