Port-au-Prince, the capital, now sees daily gun battles in which police and civilian vigilantes face off against a gang coalition called Viv Ansanm (“Living Together”).

The latest crop of 14 new ambassadors in Washington includes diplomats from two former Soviet republics, two Caribbean nations, three African countries and three Arab ones.

Haiti’s most powerful gang coalition and another criminal armed group operating in the country’s breadbasket have been added to a United Nations global sanctions list.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Mexican diplomat Carlos Ruiz as the organization's special ...

The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has appointed Mexican diplomat Carlos Ruiz as special representative to ...

Senior U.N. officials warn that Haiti’s gangs have gained “near-total control” of the capital and authorities are unable to ...

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres will bring the rival leaders of ethnically divided Cyprus together again following a ...

Hurricane Flossie strengthened to a Category 2 cyclone Tuesday off the Pacific coast of Mexico and could become a major ...

After Donald Trump put Haiti on his travel ban list, the Department of Homeland Security announced an end to temporary protected status for Haitian migrants.

A proposal to deter states from regulating artificial intelligence for a decade was soundly defeated in the U.S. Senate on ...

A new briefing by United Nations chief António Guterres on the worsening gang violence in Haiti is challenging the Trump administration’s view that conditions inside the volatile Caribbean nation have ...

Here are some of the United Nations' history-making events as the world body marks the anniversary of its founding on June 26, 1945, when the U.N. Charter was signed by 50 countries in San Francisco.