World News in Brief: Aid breakthrough for Haiti, police violence in Chicago, celebrating ‘pedal power’

Published on June 3, 2024

UN humanitarians said on Monday that they have finally been able to deliver truckloads of food to highly vulnerable people in Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, after gang violence prevented access for more than two months.

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