Haiti's President Jovenel Moise speaks during an interview at his home in Petion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Obituary

Official: Haiti President Jovenel Moïse assassinated at home

Haitian President Jovenel Moise arrives for an interview at his home in Petion-Ville, a suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Top of The World

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse assassinated in overnight attack

Members of the press gather around supporters of slain President Jovenel Moise bringing flowers, cigars, candles and prayer to create a memorial outside the presidential palace in memory of slain President Jovenel Moise in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, July 14, 

Ariel Henry announced as new prime minister of Haiti

Police carry the coffin of slain Haitian President Jovenel Moïse at the start of the funeral at his family home in Cap-Haitien, Haiti, July 23, 2021.

Justice

Haitian president's hometown holds funeral amid violence

Residents stand amid their homes damaged by a gasoline truck that overturned and exploded in Cap-Haitien, Haiti

'Haitians deserve a chance to determine their own future,' former US envoy says

Posters with a message that read in Spanish "Free abortion."

Critical State

Founding fatherhood: Part II

Smoke rises from the Trade Ministry in Baghdad after it was hit by a missile during US-led attacks, March 20, 2003.

Military

An Iraq vet grapples with lingering toll of war 

Colleagues gather at a cafeteria in the offices of Picsart, in Yerevan, Armenia.

Ukraine

Russia's war turns Armenia into a booming tech sector

Fans are seen on the stands during the Russian Premier-League soccer match between Khimki and Rostov Rostov-on-Don, in Khimki, outside Moscow, Russia.

Russia’s new Fan ID law seen as new form of authoritarian surveillance

Redevelopment proposal for Mumbai's largest informal settlement stirs controversy

Haitian Musician and Voudo priest Erol Josué has a new album titled Pèlerinaj, which includes songs like “Rén Sobo,” “Ati Sole” and “Palave Maria" that invoke Vodou goddesses and saints.

Music

Erol Josué’s new album Pèlerinaj highlights Haiti’s Vodou tradition and the artist’s own pilgrimage

A lab worker removes crane hoist from a load of rebar used to construct full-scale buildings and bridge spans that are then pushed to the limit in field tests.

Infrastructure

This ‘earthquake lab’ is designing buildings to withstand natural disasters

Wind generators near the Indigenous town of Juchitán de Zaragoza in Mexico.

Development

Mexico’s Interoceanic Corridor aims to rival the Panama Canal

Surfing instructor Godpower Tamarakuro Pekipuma in Lagos, Nigeria.

Sports

‘Walking on water’: Surfing makes waves in Nigeria

Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou waves as Ma leaves for China, at Taoyuan International Airport in Taoyuan City, northern Taiwan, Monday, March 27, 2023. 

Former Taiwanese president makes historic visit to China

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