World News 1: UN calls for foreign intervention in Haiti as violence surges

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‘Specialized support force’ urged for Caribbean state where 530 have been killed in gang-led violence so far this yearThe United Nations has called for the deployment of an international “specialized support force” to impede Haiti’s accelerating tumble into extreme violence after more than 530 people were killed in the opening weeks of this year.“Clashes between gangs are becoming more violent and more frequent,” the spokesperson for the UN human rights office, Marta...

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