The attack on Pont-Sondé on Oct. 3 was one of the biggest massacres that Haiti has seen in recent history. Survivors have questioned why authorities did not do anything to stop the attack since the gang had warned in a video posted on social media that it planned to target the area.

The USS Comstock returned to Naval Base San Diego on Tuesday after a successful four-month deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations.

The case against Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of Russia’s leading election watchdog Golos, is part of the monthslong crackdown on Kremlin critics that the government ratcheted up after sending troops into Ukraine. He faces up to six years in prison if convicted.

Croatia’s president isn’t attending Wednesday’s summit in a sign of the divided views on the war with Russia. Some Balkan states have been providing Ukraine with short-range ammunition, and Kyiv is still awaiting word from Western partners on its ability to use long-range weapons to hit targets on Russian soil.

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Laos will be followed by two days of meetings with global powers including China, the United States and Russia, which are contending for influence in the region.

A Ukrainian General Staff statement Wednesday said the nighttime strike targeted an arsenal in Russia’s Bryansk border region where missiles and artillery munitions were stored, including some that had been delivered by North Korea.

The United States has sanctioned a senior leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces for supplying weapons for the 17-month-long war, which has killed more than 20,000 people and has been marked by atrocities.

President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held their first call in seven weeks, a conversation that comes as Israel expands its ground incursion into Lebanon and considers how to respond to Iran’s recent ballistic missile attack.

Israel’s defense minister warned that his country’s retaliation for a recent Iranian missile attack will be “lethal” and “surprising,” while the Israeli military pushed ahead with a large-scale operation in northern Gaza and a ground offensive in Lebanon against Hezbollah militants.

Hurricane Milton plowed into Florida as a Category 3 storm Wednesday, bringing misery to a coast still ravaged by Helene, pounding cities with winds of over 100 mph after producing a barrage of tornadoes, but sparing Tampa a direct hit.