Football legend Tim Tebow and his foundation teamed up with a nonprofit team of veteran commandos to evacuate dozens of orphans with disabilities from Haiti, but thousands remain trapped in the troubled island nation. The operation comes as the beleaguered nation faces danger and famine following the release by gangs of thousands of prisoners and the sudden resignation of the …
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A gang leader with ties to one of Haiti’s most powerful criminal organizations reportedly has been shot dead by police in Port-au-Prince. Ernst Julme, the head of the Delmas 95 gang – which is part of gang leader Jimmy “Barbeque” Cherizier’s “Viv Ansanm” alliance – was gunned down Thursday weeks after his escape from custody in a massive jailbreak, Reuters …
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The mother of a U.K. woman who vanished from her American boyfriend’s yacht in the U.S. Virgin Islands in 2021 sent an open letter to President Biden on Friday, demanding he do something about the “failures” of police in the tourist hot spot, known for gorgeous beaches and a leisurely island life. Sarm Heslop vanished overnight between March 7 and …
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Two suspected Haitian gang members have been killed and set on fire in a suburb of Port-au-Prince in an apparent act of vigilante justice against the armed groups terrorizing the Caribbean country, a report says. The killings in Pétion-Villehappened as Haitian newspaper Le Nouvelliste reported Wednesday that at least 15 people have died in attacks around that area, which is …
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“It’s getting worse, it’s getting worse, it’s getting worse,” one man told Fox News Digital regarding the complete chaos that has unfolded in Haiti. Scenes of young men running through the capital of Port-au-Prince with rifles, cars ablaze and dead bodies in the streets have plagued media reports for weeks as gang violence continues to escalate. “We’re in a war …
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The evacuation of U.S. citizens from Haiti remains ongoing, with roughly 1,000 Americans looking to flee the extreme gang violence, though many have questioned why the administration did not move to evacuate Americans sooner. The Port-au-Prince’s Toussaint Louverture International Airport was taken over by armed gangs on March 4 after they first freed thousands of jailed prisoners, many of whom …
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Armed gangs launched new attacks in the suburbs of Port-au-Prince early Wednesday, with heavy gunfire echoing across once-peaceful communities near the Haitian capital. Associated Press journalists reported seeing at least five bodies in and around the suburbs, and gangs blocked the entrances to some areas. HAITI, US EMBASSY ENTRANCE AREA PLUNGE INTO DARKNESS AS VANDALS ATTACK …
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The crime crisis in Haiti has prompted past allegations to resurface about the roles former President Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton played in the nation’s recovery after a 2010 earthquake. “I got a chance to watch a lot of the things that happened on the ground,” Jack Brewer, a former NFL player and philanthropist who has pursued …
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The State Department said Wednesday it is organizing American evacuation flights out of Haiti as the number of U.S. citizens seeking assistance in the Caribbean country, which has been overrun by violent gangs, has nearly doubled. State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel said during a briefing, “As of March 20th, the U.S. government is facilitating the safe departure of U.S. citizens …
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The U.S. evacuated more than a dozen American citizens from Haiti on Wednesday with a helicopter flight to the capital of the Dominican Republic. The government-chartered helicopter left the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince with 15 U.S. citizens, the State Department said. The helicopter landed in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, where U.S. government personnel were present to provide consular …
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