In the past 12 months, Haiti — already the western hemisphere’s economic basket case — has suffered an epic earthquake that according to latest estimates killed more than 250,000 people and leveled ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — In a story Oct. 11 about the funeral of former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, The Associated Press erroneously reported the age of Mark Etienne, a member of the ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – Haitian President Michel Martelly on Friday backed off a suggestion from an interview a day earlier that he might be open to a pardon for former dictator Jean-Claude ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier returned Sunday to Haiti after nearly 25 years in exile, a surprising and perplexing move that comes as his country ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Former Haitian dictator Jean Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier will face trial for corruption during his 15-year rule, but not for human rights abuses, the judge handling the case ...

Jean-Claude Duvalier, a former president of Haiti who ruled the country with a bloody brutality, died on Saturday. Reuters Mr. Duvalier returned to Haiti in 2011 after a 25-year exile and continued to ...

Last week, former Haitian President Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier returned to Haiti, ending his 25-year exile after a 1986 popular uprising had ousted the notoriously corrupt ruler. As the still ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) – A Haitian appellate court called for further investigation into human rights abuses allegedly committed during the 15-year rule of former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti's former dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, who faces charges of corruption and rights abuses after returning from exile in January, is being treated in a ...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti - Haitian authorities want Jean-Claude Duvalier to leave the country, but the once-feared dictator will not go and could even choose to get involved in politics, one of his ...

After 25 years in exile, dictator returns under mysterious circumstances. Jan 18, 2011 — -- Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier, the exiled despot who mysteriously arrived in Haiti this weekend, is ...

Haiti: Switzerland to Return ‘Baby Doc’ Funds Switzerland will return $6.2 million next month that it seized in bank accounts of the dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, known as Baby Doc, Swiss officials ...