Haiti’s National Police agency says that it has recovered a hijacked cargo ship laden with rice following a gunbattle with gangs that lasted more than five hours.Two police officers were injured and an undetermined number of gang members were killed in the shootout that occurred Saturday off the coast of…

PANAMA CITY (AP) — The trial of 27 people charged in connection with the worldwide “Panama Papers” money laundering started Monday in a Panamanian criminal court.Those on trial include the owners of the Mossack-Fonseca law firm that was at the heart of the 2016 massive document leak.LAWYERS DEPICTED IN ‘PANAMA…

A makeshift ferry overcrowded with residents reportedly fleeing a cholera outbreak sank off Mozambique’s northern coast, killing at least 98 people including children, local media said Monday.The ferry with an estimated 130 people aboard sank Sunday after it departed the southeastern African nation’s coast for the nearby Island of Mozambique…

Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will visit the U.S. this week — the first leader from Japan to make a state visit in nearly a decade.President Joe Biden and Kishida will hold a summit on Wednesday where they are expected to upgrade their defense alliance.Biden, Kishida and Philippine President Ferdinand…

Russians in the city of Orsk gathered in a rare protest Monday, calling for compensation following the collapse of a dam and subsequent flooding in the Orenburg region near the border with Kazakhstan.Protests are an unusual sight in Russia where authorities have consistently cracked down on any form of dissent…

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations spoke out forcefully against the notion of Palestinian statehood during a U.N. Security council meeting on Monday, going so far as to suggest that the U.N. had backtracked on its original goal of preventing the spread of Nazi ideology by supporting Palestinian statehood.  While…

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The National Weather Service on Monday confirmed a fifth tornado touched down during severe storms that barreled across West Virginia last week. That’s more than double the state’s average for an entire year.STORMS, FLOODING IN WEST VIRGINIA KILL 1, DAMAGE 200-YEAR-OLD GRAVEYARDWest Virginia saw an average…

A young woman was stabbed to death while walking with her baby in Bradford, England, according to authorities.Oldham resident Kulsuma Akter, 27, was stabbed during a walk at around 3:21 p.m. on Saturday. West Yorkshire Police said that she was “taken to hospital but subsequently died from her injuries.”Akter was…

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Monday revived the Palestinian Authority’s hopes of joining the United Nations as a full member.But the United States said relations between Israel and the Palestinians are far from ripe. That all but quashes the Palestinian Authority’s U.N. membership hopes for now.BLINKEN:…

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Iran’s foreign minister Monday accused the United States of giving Israel the “green light” for a strike on its consulate building in Syria that killed seven Iranian military officials including two generals.Hossein Amirabdollahian reiterated Tehran’s vows that it will respond to the attack, widely blamed on…