PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Rotting fruit, withered vegetables, empty water jugs and spent gas canisters now stock the stores and stands that serve Haiti’s poor — a consequence of the unrelenting gang attacks that have paralyzed the country for more than a week and left it with dwindling supplies of basic goods. The terrifying violence as … Read more
LONDON — A storm that raged through northwestern France overnight was hitting Britain on Thursday with heavy rainfall and winds that prompted the country’s weather agency to issue its second-highest alert level for parts of southern England. The storm lashed France’s northwestern coast overnight, ripping out trees, unleashing severe winds — with gusts of about … Read more
KYIV, Ukraine — Russian shelling killed an 81-year-old woman in the yard of her home and a 60-year-old man in southern Ukraine’s Kherson region Thursday, local authorities said. The deaths were the latest civilian casualties in Moscow’s recent ramped-up bombardment of the front-line area. Kherson is a strategic military region located on the Dnieper River … Read more