Haiti’s National Police agency says that it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice following a gun battle with gangs that lasted more than five hours.

The global condemnation of Ecuador’s government for its decision to break into the Mexican Embassy snowballed Sunday with more presidents and other leaders expressing disapproval, shock and dismay.

Capt. Abigail Yablonsky Marter, the commanding officer of Naval Medical Research Unit South, has been relieved due to a loss of confidence in her ability to command. Marter is the sixth commanding officer to be relieved by the Navy this year.

The Mexican president has quickly moved to break off diplomatic ties with Ecuador after police broke into the Mexican Embassy to arrest a former Ecuadorian vice president who had sought political asylum there after being indicted on corruption charges.

When Walder St. Louis entered the Miami pawnshop in October 2021, two AK-47s and an AR-15 were on his shopping list. Germine Joly, then head of the Haitian gang 400 Mawozo, had placed the order from a Port-au-Prince prison. St. Louis would soon send two barrels of firearms back to the Haitian capital.

A GoFundMe set up to help the family of a United States Marine who went missing in Puerto Rico continues to get closer to its goal of $10,000.

Lawmakers are widely forecast to greenlight President Dina Boluarte’s new cabinet, looking past the so-called Rolex scandal that has roiled her government in recent weeks.

The search for Marine Cpl. Samuel Wanjiru, 26, who was swept away by strong currents while vacationing in Puerto Rico, has been suspended, the Coast Guard announced.

The search for a 26-year-old Worcester marine who was swept away by strong currents while vacationing in Puerto Rico has entered a “passive” phase, Puerto Rican authorities said.

A 2016 expansion of the Panama Canal ushered in larger ships worldwide. Maryland officials saw economic opportunity in them. Then one hit the Key Bridge.