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A second contingent of 200 police officers from Kenya arrive at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Tuesday.
WORLD
Jul 17, 2024
200 more Kenyan police deployed to tackle Haiti violence
Haitian sources say the new batch brings the total to 400 Kenyan boots on the ground in violence-ravaged Port-au-Prince.
People walk through the Petionville street market in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on May 2. Unable to work, Haitian families depend on food rations and hygiene kits brought in by nongovernmental organizations.
WORLD / Society
Jul 4, 2024
Camping in schools, hungry Haiti families ask: When will normality return?
Five million people in Haiti, nearly half its population, are struggling to feed themselves due to conflict.
A street vendor flees from gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Monday.
WORLD / Politics
Apr 13, 2024
Haiti decrees long-awaited transition council, but questions remain
The long-delayed move is intended as a first step in restoring security to the gang-ravaged Caribbean country.
People pray in Port-au-Prince last month.
WORLD / Society
Apr 12, 2024
Waiting for change, Haitians endure hell on earth
Conditions remain horrific one month after Haiti's prime minister said he would step down.
People make their way through the rubble in downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in January.
WORLD
Mar 18, 2024
Haiti’s hospitals survived cholera and COVID. Gangs are closing them.
Many hospitals in Haiti’s capital have been looted by gangs or abandoned by their staffs amid the violence.
Haiti has been convulsed for the last two weeks by a gang uprising, with the well-armed groups aiming to topple Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
WORLD
Mar 17, 2024
U.S. announces plan to evacuate citizens stranded in Haiti
Haiti has been convulsed for the last two weeks by a gang uprising, with the well-armed groups aiming to topple Prime Minister Ariel Henry.
An armed soldier stands guard next to a sign prohibiting the use of weapons outside the military headquarters as Haiti continues in a state of emergency, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 6.
WORLD / Society
Mar 11, 2024
Violence in Haiti puts focus on how to unravel gangs' grip on power
Armed gangs have profited from collusion, negligence and chaos since the 2021 assassination of former Haitian President Jovenel Moise.
Charred vehicles amid escalating gang violence in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Saturday
WORLD
Mar 10, 2024
Haiti capital a 'city under siege' amid spasm of gang violence
Criminal groups already control much of Port-au-Prince as well as roads leading to the rest of the Western hemisphere's poorest country.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 22, 2022
As Haiti investigation stalls, U.S. probes president's killing
Congress earlier this month ordered the U.S. State Department to produce a report about the assassination, which deepened a political power vacuum in the impoverished country.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 13, 2021
Haiti’s leader kept a list of drug traffickers. His assassins came for it.
In the months before his murder, President Jovenel Mou00efse took a number of steps to fight drug and arms smugglers. Some officials now fear he was killed for it.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 19, 2021
Haitians voice anger over slow pace of quake aid
Residents in the worst-affected city of Les Cayes, including those camped in a mushrooming tent city, complained of scant help on the ground.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 18, 2021
Haiti quake survivors cry for help as death toll nears 2,000
Political turmoil, quake-damaged hospitals, gangs and a tropical storm all conspire to hinder relief efforts.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 17, 2021
Storm brings floods as Haitians seek help at overloaded hospitals after quake
Doctors battled in makeshift tents to save the lives of hundreds of victims outside hospitals overwhelmed by an earthquake that killed at least 1,419 people.
Japan Times
WORLD
Aug 16, 2021
Rescuers race to find Haiti quake survivors as death toll hits 1,297
The 7.2 magnitude quake on Saturday destroyed thousands of homes and buildings in a Caribbean nation which is still clawing its way back from another major temblor 11 years ago.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 3, 2021
As turmoil deepens, Haitians fear democracy is slipping away
Haiti emerged from a brutal dictatorship 35 years ago. Now, many Haitians fear a return to autocracy as President Jovenel Moise has been steadily amassing power.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Oct 24, 2020
A decade after U.N.-linked cholera outbreak, Haitians demand justice
In the middle of a coronavirus pandemic, it is another, more deadly disease that keeps 20-year-old Haitian Loubean Jean up at night — cholera.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 2, 2019
Taiwan's Tsai Ing-wen to make stopovers in U.S. before and after Caribbean visit, riling China
Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen will spend four nights in the United States in July while visiting Caribbean diplomatic allies, her government said on Monday, angering China, which urged Washington not to allow her to visit.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 19, 2019
Americans among group arrested in Haiti with arsenal, drones and satellite phones: media
Haitian police arrested a group of foreign nationals, including Americans, armed with semi-automatic weapons, Haitian newspapers reported on Monday, adding to uncertainty in the poor Caribbean country after more than a week of anti-government protests.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 15, 2018
Biodiversity wins, even when all seems lost
Tiny frogs and lizards surviving in Haiti's last splinters of forest show that even the most devastated areas can be redeemed.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 7, 2018
At least 11 people killed after powerful earthquake rocks northern Haiti
An earthquake hit northern Haiti late Saturday, killing at least 11 people and sparking an overnight scramble to help towns in the impoverished Caribbean country battered by the shockwave.
Japan's population continues to fall even as foreign resident count rises
The number of residents in Tokyo as of Jan. 1 rose by 0.03% from a year before, data shows, marking a year-on-year increase for the first time in three years, while the country's other 46 prefectures saw their populations continue to decline.
Ahead of the Olympics, Japan is still talking about the gymnast who won't be there
Japan's Shoko Miyata withdrew from the gymnastics team herself over her drinking and smoking, although it had already appeared as though the association was prepared to send her home from the team’s training camp in Monaco.
Yen melt-up nudges Japanese stocks into correction territory
Japanese stocks are down 10% from their July peak as the yen strengthens.
‘Crazy’ yen rally is at risk of shattering as soon as Wednesday
Some investors are warning that a yen rally is fragile, as was on show this week when the yen rapidly retraced an advance after Thursday’s stronger-than-expected U.S. economic growth figures.
Japan's average life expectancy rises for first time in three years
A decline in COVID-19-caused deaths likely helped boost the average life expectancy for Japanese men and women to rise for the first time in three years in 2023.
The Japanese Olympians looking to shine in Paris
Rim Nakamura, who is attempting to win Japan's first Olympic gold medal in cycling, will be one of the top Japanese athletes to watch at the Paris Games.
Japan’s minimum wage set for record ¥50 hike in major boost
Demonstrators rally to demand a big hike in minimum wages in Tokyo last week.
Japan loses top spot on strongest passport list to Singapore
Japan had the strongest passport for six years running from 2018, before being dethroned by Singapore on the 2024 list.
Why Japan's mysterious stash of classified funds escapes scrutiny
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi (right) during a meeting in Tokyo on Tuesday.
Japan eyes gold — and the future — as Olympic men's soccer campaign begins
Japan midfielder Yu Hirakawa controls the ball during a match against the United States in Kansas City, Kansas, on June 11.

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