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After protesting for years, demonstrators feel they are closed to their dream of overthrowing Ariel Henry. Demonstrators carrying a pole in Port-au-Prince during a protest in February 2024. Photo by Guerinault Louis for The Haitian TimesCAP-HAITIEN — Ricardo Fleuridor, an activist, went to tens of demonstrations demanding Prime Minister Ariel Henry to resign in the past two years or so and was threatened and tear gassed in many of them. His family and friends feared for his life and some of them even thought he was wasting his time. But the perspective changed when the Miami Herald and The Washington...

Dominican Republic health officials say the Maryland woman found dead last month with her fiancé in a hotel room likely died from the “shock” of seeing her partner dead. Ministry of Public Health spokesman Carlos Suero insisted that the Caribbean country shouldn’t be blamed for the series of tourist deaths on the island, which includes Cynthia Ann Day and fiancé Nathaniel Holmes. Suero claimed that Holmes died, then Day followed, “probably from the shock of seeing the person beside her dead.”

Arnold Schwarzenegger appears to have avoided serious injury after the 71-year-old former Governor of California was blindsided and dropkicked in the back while at an event in South Africa Saturday. The 'Terminator' actor is in Sandton, South Africa, for a sporting event called the Arnold Classic Africa, per The Sandton Chronicle.

Nigeria’s President Buhari on Sunday denied claims that he had died and been replaced by a Sudanese impostor, breaking his silence on a rumor that has circulated on social media for months. Buhari, who is running for re-election in February, spent five months in Britain last year being treated for an undisclosed illness. One theory widely aired on social media - and by some political opponents - was that he had been replaced by a lookalike from Sudan called Jubril. SNIP “A lot of people hoped that I died during my ill health,” he said, adding that those who spread...