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Clouds cover Kingston, Jamaica, ahead of the forecast arrival of Hurricane Melissa on Sunday, Oct. 26, 2025.

‘We’re witnessing satellite history’: World’s biggest storm this year could bring crisis

Hurricane Melissa is expected to hit Jamaica later on Tuesday with sustained winds exceeding 280 km/h.

  • John Myers Jr. and Dánica Coto

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Rains in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, from Melissa, then a tropical storm and now a Category 3 hurricane.

Strengthening hurricane threatens Caribbean with catastrophic floods

Melissa is now a category 3 hurricane and is expected to rapidly intensify over the next 24 hours, threatening catastrophic flooding in the northern Caribbean, including Haiti and Jamaica.

US President Donald Trump at a Summer soiree on the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday.

‘We don’t want them’: Trump imposes travel bans on citizens from 12 countries

The US president has announced a total ban on citizens from a dozen countries entering the US and a partial ban on several more nations, a move that partly revives controversial travel restrictions from his first term.

  • Michael Koziol
A bride yawns before the start a mass wedding the day before Valentine’s Day in Lima, Peru.
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World of photos, February 15, 2025

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An armed member of the G9 and Family gang patrols a roadblock in the Delmas 6 neighbourhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on Monday.

Haiti on the brink: US and neighbours step in, prime minister resigns

With the country’s leader having resigned and being stranded in Puerto Rico, gangs are running free and regional partners and Washington have come to the rescue.

  • Danica Coto
A demonstrator holds up a flare as she stands on a street during a protest calling for a deal to release the hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group, in Tel Aviv, Israel.
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World of photos, March 2, 2024

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Carnival revelers attend the “Urknall,” or Big Bang, which occurs at Kapellplatz at five in the morning and marks the start of the Lucerne carnival Thursday in Lucerne, Switzerland.
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World of photos, February 9, 2024

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The Fontaine Hospital Centre in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Police rescue hostages after gang storms Haiti hospital

Jose Ulysse, director of the Fontaine Hospital Centre in Port-au-Prince, said police arrived with three armoured trucks to evacuate 40 children and 70 patients.

  • Evens Sanon
Haitians waiting to board a flight to Nicaragua gather after the government banned all charter flights to Nicaragua, at Toussaint Louverture International Airport in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

‘Completely unusual’: Haiti blocks flights used by migrants going to US southern border

There were no charter flights from Port-au-Prince to Nicaragua last January. Three daily flights that began in late July had grown to 11 flights a day, said one analyst.

  • Danica Coto and Evens Sanon
A protester holds up a machete as a symbol of self-defence against gangs, during a protest in Port-au-Prince last week.

Pastor leads churchgoers with machetes to remove gang, who open fire

Several people were killed and others injured in Haiti as hundreds of churchgoers, some armed with machetes, proved no match for gang members with assault rifles.

  • Evens Sanon