In one attack, gang members opened fire on people called to a protest by a church leader. In another, they set seven people on fire. And after months of escalating violence in…
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UN Approves Kenya’s Mission to Stabilize Haiti
The United Nations Security Council on Monday approved a yearlong multinational security mission for Haiti, led by Kenya, aimed at cracking down on rampant gang violence that has unraveled life for many…
Church Collapse in Mexico Kills at Least 10 During Baptism
Rescuers in northern Mexico recovered the bodies of 10 people who died after the roof of a Roman Catholic church collapsed during Sunday Mass in Ciudad Madero, an oil-refining city on the…
He Announces Baseball Games in Spanish. It is Not His First Language.
Bill Kulik is a longtime Spanish language radio broadcaster for the Philadelphia Phillies. But listeners tuning in wouldn’t always know that. Instead of calling baseball’s championship by its Spanish name, “La Serie…
Grizzly Bear Kills 2 People at Banff National Park in Canada
A grizzly bear is believed to have attacked and killed two people at a national park in southwest Canada, park officials said on Sunday. Parks Canada said it learned of the attack…
A New Speaker for Canada After a Misstep That ‘Deeply Embarrassed Parliament’
It was President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine’s first trip to Canada since Russia’s full-scale invasion of his country. And its high point was an address by Mr. Zelensky to a joint session…
Modi’s Hindu Nationalism Stokes Tension in Indian Diaspora
Lecture halls at Canadian and American universities have become battlegrounds for critics and defenders of Hindu nationalism, punctuated by threats of violence and even death. Temples of Sikhs and Hindus in Canada…
Gabriela Wiener Does Not Care if You Don’t See Her Writing as Literature
When the Peruvian writer Gabriela Wiener was a child, she dreaded school trips to museums in Lima, the capital. As her class approached the display cases containing the pre-Columbian ceramic statues known…
Police Investigate About 100 Suicides Linked To Canadian Man
He worked as a cook at a Toronto restaurant, and, somehow, he had access to sodium nitrite, commonly called toxic salt. In food, the salt enhances flavor and color, but consumed directly,…
Mosquitoes Are a Growing Public Health Threat, Reversing Years of Progress
Along hundreds of miles of Lake Victoria’s shoreline in Kenya, a squadron of young scientists and an army of volunteers are waging an all-out war on a creature that threatens the health…