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  • Kenyan members of the Multinational Security Support (MSS) mission in Haiti stand in formation in Port-au-Prince in 2024.
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    UN report details sexual abuse investigations involving foreign forces in Haiti
  • A military guard observes from a watch tower at the Combinado del Este prison during a media tour in Havana, Cuba, on April 9, 2013
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    Cuba to free more than 2,000 prisoners as economic crisis deepens under US pressure
  • Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio speaks at a press conference about the US speedboat in Havana, Cuba, on February 26.
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    FBI visits Cuba to probe Florida speedboat attack as survivors face terrorism charges
  • A view of the Trump National Doral resort in Miami. The golf club hosted the first Miami Security Forum last week.
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    ‘There’s a new sheriff in town’: Inside the Miami conference on Trump’s ‘Donroe Doctrine’
  • People walk along Alameda Avenue at sunset in Santiago on December 19, 2023.
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    Latin America’s generational shift: What’s causing record-low birth rates across the region?
  • TOPSHOT - Flames and thick black smoke rise from an Air Force Hercules that crashed during takeoff, as a member of the Colombian Police stands nearby, in Puerto Leguizamo, Colombia, near the southern border with Ecuador, on March 23, 2026. Colombia's military said on March 23 that about 80 troops were believed to be dead after a transport plane crash in the south of the country. (Photo by daniel ortiz / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Scores killed as Colombian military plane crashes on takeoff
  • The Kenyan police contingent arrives on Haitian soil in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on July 16, 2024. A new contingent of 200 Kenyan police officers arrive in Port-au-Prince, marking the start of a crucial mission. Aboard an Omni Air International aircraft, this second contingent of 200 Kenyan police officers represents the vanguard of a multinational force designed to dismantle armed criminal gangs operating in Haiti.
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    Foreign forces are headed to fight Haiti’s gangs. But haven’t we been here before?
  • A man walks while cars cruise along a street during a blackout in Havana on March 16, 2026. Cuba suffered a widespread power cut on March 16, 2026, according to the national electricity company, against the backdrop of a severe crisis on the island caused by the US energy blockade. (Photo by Yamil LAGE / AFP via Getty Images)
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    Cuba plunged into second nationwide blackout in less than a week
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    Cubans facing no food, water or electricity flee to other countries for a better life 3:13
  • Gladys Valdes, 76, prepares coffee during a blackout as Cuba's national electric grid collapsed, according to the country's grid operator, leaving around 10 million people without power amid a US-imposed oil blockade, in Havana, Cuba March 16, 2026.
    Norlys Perez/Reuters
    Cuba is going dark under US pressure. How the crisis unfolded and why its troubles are far from over
  • A street vendor tends to a customer on the Malecón during a blackout in Havana, Monday, March 16, 2026. (AP Photo/Ramon Espinosa)
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    Trump muses over ‘taking Cuba’ as island’s power grid collapses after weeks of US oil blockade
  • Cuba's Colonel Raul Guillermo Rodriguez Castro, grandson of Raul Castro, attends the funeral of the 32 Cuban soldiers killed during the US incursion in Venezuela at Colon cemetery in Havana on January 16.
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    With the US pressuring Cuba, a Castro known as ‘the Crab’ is making appearances. Here’s why it matters
  • Ships sail at the Pacific entrance of the Panama Canal on March 7.
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    With the Strait of Hormuz choked by war, the Panama Canal reaps the benefits
  • Forensic Toronto police officer marks a bullet impact mark at the U.S. consulate in Toronto on Tuesday March 10, 2026.  (Frank Gunn/The Canadian Press via AP)
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    What we know about the US consulate shooting in Toronto
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  • Cubans transit on a street in Havana on January 7, 2026. Cubans weary from years of economic crisis, shortages of basic supplies and regular power blackouts, fear the US attack on Venezuela, a leftist ideological ally and its main oil supplier, will see life get even tougher. (Photo by Yamil LAGE / AFP via Getty Images)
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    ‘We can’t take it anymore’: How Trump is pushing Cuba to the brink
  • Cuban coast guard ships docked at the port of Havana on February 25, 2026. Cuba's coast guard said on February 25, 2026, it shot dead four people and wounded six others traveling in a US-registered speedboat during an exchange of fire near Cuba's shores that came amid heightened tensions with Washington.
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    Cuba charges six exiles with terrorism over Florida-registered speedboat attack
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  • The hearse of drug trafficker Nemesio "El Mencho" Oseguera leaves la Paz funeral home in Guadalajara, Jalisco state, Mexico, on March 2, 2026.
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    Slain cartel leader ‘El Mencho’ buried in a golden casket
  • Members of the Searching Mothers of Sonora group put up flyers.
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    A group of Mexican mothers with years of experience looking for missing people joins Guthrie search
  • A soldier stands guard by a charred vehicle after it was set on fire, in Cointzio, Michoacán state, Mexico, on Sunday, following the death of the leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, Nemesio Oseguera, known as "El Mencho."
    Armando Solis/AP
    How Mexico hunted ‘El Mencho’ with help from his lover’s ‘trusted man’ and US intelligence
  • A bus set on fire by organised crime groups in response to an operation in Jalisco to arrest a high-priority security target, burns at one of the main avenues in Zapopan, state of Jalisco, Mexico, on February 22, 2026.
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    The death of ‘El Mencho’ exposed the reach of Mexico’s cartel crisis. Will US tourists stay away?
  • Firefighters work at the site where buses were set on fire by members of organized crime following a military operation in which Mexican officials said cartel boss Nemesio Oseguera, "El Mencho," was killed, at a tourist area, in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, February 22, 2026. Picture taken with a mobile phone.  REUTERS/Stringer
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    US tourists stranded in Mexico amid ‘really scary’ cartel violence following drug lord’s killing
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