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March 11, 2024
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2024-03-11
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Armed conflicts and attacks
Haitian crisis
Gang war in Haiti
The
European Union
evacuates
all diplomatic staff from
Haiti
.
(Politico)
The
Caribbean Community
holds an emergency summit in
Kingston, Jamaica
, in response to the deteriorating security situation in Haiti.
(Al Jazeera)
Haitian prime minister
Ariel Henry
agrees to resign when a transitional presidential council is formed.
(AP)
Red Sea crisis
Houthi officials
say that at least 17
U.S.
and
British
airstrikes
across western
Yemen
, including in
Al Hudaydah
, have killed eleven people and injured 14 others.
(Reuters)
Disasters and accidents
LATAM Airlines Flight 800
A
LATAM Airlines
Boeing 787-9
enroute between
Sydney
and
Auckland
loses altitude due to a technical issue, injuring 50 passengers and crew.
(BBC News)
Five
skiers
are found dead after they went missing two days ago while travelling from the town of
Zermatt
to the village of
Arolla
in
Switzerland
. A sixth skier is still missing.
(AP)
Two
New Zealand
skiers are killed and another is injured during an avalanche on
Mount Yotei
in
Hokkaido
,
Japan
.
(
The Guardian
)
Law and crime
A man fatally stabs his wife and three children in
Honolulu
,
Hawaii
,
United States
.
(
The Guardian
)
Politics and elections
Former
Conservative Party
deputy chairman and
Ashfield
MP
Lee Anderson
defects to
Reform UK
, becoming the party's first
member of parliament
. Anderson was suspended by the Conservatives after claiming that
London mayor
Sadiq Khan
was "controlled" by radical
Islamists
.
(BBC News)
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