Tag: Haitian

Rival Haitian Leaders Battle for Power After President’s Assassination

PORT-AU-PRINCE—A power struggle is brewing in Haiti as the man appointed prime minister shortly before the assassination of Haiti’s president this week said he—not the acting premier—should lead the Caribbean nation and was forming a government to that effect. Ariel Henry, a neurosurgeon who was named prime minister by President Jovenel Moise on Monday, two…


NTD News Today Full Broadcast (July 8)

First-responders in the Florida condo collapse stop searching for survivors. It’s now a recovery mission. What factors led to the decision? And how is the community handling it? U.S. personnel in Iraq and Syria were the target of a series of attacks. And rockets were launched at the U-S Embassy in Baghdad’s Green Zone. Haitian…


Haitian President Assassinated by Gunmen at Home, State of Emergency Declared

PORT-AU-PRINCE—Haitian President Jovenel Moise was shot dead by unidentified attackers in his private residence overnight in a “barbaric act,” the government said on Wednesday, stirring fears of escalating turmoil in the impoverished Caribbean nation. The assassination drew condemnation from Washington. The disorder has turned many districts of the capital into no-go zones. Interim Prime Minister…