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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. AP 鈥?Haitian migrants are reaching Floridas shores in large numbers as human smuggling operations ramp up, outpacing last years migration waves.The rise in the desperate and sometimes deadly voyages on overloaded vessels comes amid deepening political instability, skyrocketing inflation, severe fuel shortages and a spike in gang-related violence and kidnappings in Haiti.Some 140 Haitian migrants came ashore Monday on Summerland Key, about 20 miles 30 kilometers up the highway from Key West, and M stanley termohrnek onroe County Sheriffs deputies joined federal agents in processing them.Earlier this month, a wooden boat carrying hundreds of migrants grounded in shallow water off Key Largo, and 163 people swam ashore near the Ocean Reef Club. Many needed medical treatment, federal officials said.Another boat carrying 176 Haitians was stopped in January just off the Florida Keys, the U. S. Coast Guard said.The Coast Gua stanley thermos rd routinely returns people interdicted at sea to their country of origin. Those arriving in the U.S. generally are taken into custody and face deportation unless they have viable asylum claims.The United Nations Security Council reported in mid-February that gangs in Haiti have been growing more powerful and seizing more territory, with an under-resourced and under-staffed police force struggling to contain them. The actions of these ar stanley kubek med criminal groups have had a catastrophic impact on the economy of Haiti and threaten the fundamental rights of all Haiti Memn Beach parties, fireworks: World rings in new year
BEIRUT 鈥?In a Middle East t stanley canada orn apart by war and conflict, fighters are increasingly using food as a weapon.Millions of people across countries like Syria, Yemen and Iraq are gripped by hunger, struggling to survive with little help from the outside world. Children suffer from severe malnutrition, their parents often having to beg or sell possessions to get basic commodities including water, medicine and fuel.The biggest humanitarian catastrophe by far is Syria, where a ruinous five-year civil war has killed a quarte stanley hrnek r of a million people and displaced half the population. All sides in the conflic stanley italy t have used punishing blockades to force submission and surrender from the other side 鈥?a tactic that has proved effective particularly for government forces seeking to pacify opposition-held areas around the capital Damascus.Since October, Russian airstrikes and the start of yet another winter have exacerbated a humanitarian crisis and led to deaths from starvation in some places.Humanitarian teams who recently entered a besieged Syrian town witnessed scenes that haunt the soul, said Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. He accused both the government of President Bashar Assad and the rebels fighting to oust him of using starvation as a weapon, calling it a war crime. Although sieges are an accepted military practice that are often carried out by forces seeking to avoid intense urban conflict, the conduct of forces carrying them out and their behavior toward civilian populations are regula |
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