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Haiti hospitals struggle to treat thousands injured in quake

At least 1,297 people have died after a powerful earthquake struck Haiti over the weekend, the country's civil protection agency said Sunday.

What do we know about the assassination of Haiti’s president?

Despite a series of arrests by Haitian police, confusion still reigns about the assassination of President Jovenel Moise a week ago.

Haiti president assassinated at home, wife wounded

Haiti President Jovenel Moise was assassinated and his wife wounded early Wednesday in a gun attack at their private residence

Vice President Campbell discusses goal to ‘defend the rights of all, to speak for those who are silent’

Vice President Campbell called for building equitable, just and non-discriminatory societies. 

Government charters flight to bring Costa Ricans home from Puerto Rico

When it arrives in Costa Rica, the flight will be met at a government air base in Alajuela by officials and passengers' families.

UPDATED: Tropical storm causes deaths, flooding in Costa Rica and region

"This is a critical situation, the likes of which Costa Rica has not faced for many years," President Luis Guillermo Solís said in a video message.
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Inside Panama Migrant Shelter Housing Deported Asian Refugees

In a shelter in the jungle province of Darién, guarded by Panamanian officers, around a hundred Asian migrants wait to be found a country...

Vatican Confirms Pope Francis Remains Under Critical Care

Pope Francis, 88, remains in "critical condition" and his "prognosis is currently reserved," the Vatican reported Saturday night, at the beginning of the second...

Tragic Capsizing Off Panama as Migrant Boat Sinks with Child Fatality

A boat carrying 19 migrants from Venezuela and Colombia, along with two Indigenous Panamanian crew members, capsized in Caribbean waters off Panama on Friday...