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Dominican Republic

Famed merengue singer dies in Santo Domingo nightclub disaster
2:33
Israel strikes chemical weapons stores across Syria
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48:35
The Dominican Republic’s mass deportations of Haitians
5:56
Zelenskiy presents 5-point ‘victory plan’ to Ukraine’s parliament
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47:54
Dominican Republic launches mass deportation of Haitians
5:26
Stories from the Stage: Friendships have no boundaries
7:44
US seizes Venezuelan leader’s private plane
4:51
Dominican Republic hails NBA champ
0:52
Group of people detained in a truck
Conflict & Justice
Dominican Foreign Minister Roberto Álvarez on Haiti crisis: ‘There is no interlocutor on the other side’
Haitians who were detained hold up their immigration status documents to prove they have work permits, in Haina, Dominican Republic, March 16, 2024.
Conflict & Justice
‘We have different cultures, but we share the same island’: Dominican Republic priest says his country should do more to help Haiti
people in a line
Dominican Republic closes border with Haiti over water rights dispute
A police officer searches and checks the documents of a man living in the Kiwanis Community, during a preventive patrol in search of gang members in Soyapango, El Salvador, Aug. 16, 2022, amid a state of exception.
Conflict & Justice
El Salvador imprisons dozens of foreign visitors in crackdown on crime
Vicky sits in a park in Madrid. She’s smiling because her hospice caretakers have arranged for her to fly home to the Dominican Republic to visit her mom and family one last time.
Lifestyle & Belief
‘What I really needed was a hug’: Madrid hospice workers make sure the unhoused won’t die alone
A team of naturalists trekked to Haiti’s longest mountain range, the Massif du Nord, to try to find the elusive flower.
Environment
Naturalists in Haiti rediscover the elusive magnolia flower
man on beach
Ukraine
Ukrainian, Russian tourists stranded abroad
In this Sunday, Oct. 2, 2016 file photo, a man guides a raft through a polluted canal littered with plastic bags and other garbage in Mumbai, India.
Environment
YouTube influencers work to stem the flow of trash to the seas
Volunteers assemble signs before a rally for Democratic US Senate candidate Jon Ossoff and former US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro in Lilburn, Georgia, Monday, Dec. 7, 2020. 
Every 30 Seconds
Latino communities targeted by disinformation ahead of Georgia’s Senate runoffs
Two men are shown helping a woman as they wade through a flooded street.
Environment
Storm Marco closes in on Louisiana as Laura buffets Cuba
Ana Tijoux performs during a concert by female artists on the eve of International Women's Day, in the Zocalo in Mexico City, March 7, 2020.
French Chilean rapper’s new track criticizes politicians’ apathy over coronavirus
A boy swings from home base.
Sports
The promise and peril of the Dominican baseball pipeline
The Dominican Republic took in Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany in exchange for a promise to develop the land. Franz Blumenstein rides a donkey in Sosúa, Dominican Republic, 1940.
Conflict & Justice
The Dominican Republic took in Jewish refugees fleeing Hitler while 31 nations looked away
Three women on stage gesticulating, one with blackface pounding her chest
Arts, Culture & Media
A Miami theater group has a change of heart over blackface
Making habas con dulce
Food
The Good Friday dessert with roots in the Dominican Republic that I will not give up
woman selling eggs
Economics
Haiti has a chicken-and-egg problem
One of the scenes on Sept. 21, 2017, after Hurricane Maria battered St. Croix, one of the US Virgin Islands.
Environment
Hurricane Maria slams into Turks and Caicos after devastating Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands
Members of the civil defense run as Hurricane Irma howls past Puerto Rico after thrashing several smaller Caribbean islands.
Environment
Hurricane Irma — the most enduring super-storm on record — continues on deadly path through Caribbean
A girl trudges through a flooded area after Hurricane Matthew in Les Cayes, Haiti.
Development
PHOTOS: Hurricane Matthew’s destructive path through Haiti
Health centers in New York are providing information about the Zika virus to New Yorkers traveling home to the Dominican Republic. People who've traveled to the DR represent more than half of the Zika cases in New York.
Health
Dominicans in New York are planning summer visits home. That means Zika planning.
Deivis Ventura at a restaurant in Harlem.
Global Politics
This human rights activist wants to be the Dominican Republic’s first openly gay member of Congress
The Ricord's iguana, which lives only on the island of Hispaniola, was thought to be extinct in Haiti until a small population was discovered in the southeastern corner of the country eight years ago. Now the three foot-long lizard is the subject of a rar
Environment
Where human life is precarious, Haitians look out for a rare Iguana
Christella Saintime sits with her 6-week-old baby, several feet from the Dominican Republic. She fled to Haiti when she was 5 months pregnant.
Economics
Some Haitians fleeing the Dominican Republic are finding themselves pulled back
Dennis Benzan meeting constituents
Justice
A Boston community is divided over the Dominican Republic’s citizenship policy
Women and children sit in a classroom at a school in Fond Parisen, Haiti. About 50 people of Haitian descent are staying at the school after being forced out of the Dominican Republic.
Global Politics
‘If I was Dominican, they wouldn’t have expelled me like some dog’
A Haitian immigrant to the Dominican Republic returns to Haiti
Global Politics
There’s an uncertain future for thousands of Haitian immigrants to the Dominican Republic
The waiting line at El Huacal, the government building in Santo Domingo where undocumented Haitians (and Dominicans of Haitian descent) have come to "regularize" their status.
Global Politics
Haitians who consider the Dominican Republic their home are threatened with expulsion
Designer Oscar de la Renta addresses the audience next to singer Juan Luis Guerra during a presentation of his collection in Mexico City in 2011.
Culture
Dominican designers were inspired by native son Oscar de la Renta
Santo Domingo Blues: The Story of Bachata
Global Scan
Why does this Ukrainian have a green stain on his face?
Dominican students
Global Politics
Dominicans argue over a court ruling that strips citizenship from many born in the country
Betzeida Perez Pierre was born in the Dominican Republic, as were her parents and their parents. Now she can't attend university because her Dominican citizenship has been canceled.
Conflict & Justice
What happens when your government tells you you’re no longer a citizen?
Eglise de Dieu, a church in Harlem, has a congregation of around 200 people, most of whom have roots in Haiti. Songs alternate between English and Haitian Creole, with Creole lyrics projected.
Conflict & Justice
Here’s why a court ruling in the Dominican Republic is spurring international protests
Leguisie Louis (L), a farmer, was born in Haiti but moved to the Dominican Republic in 1959. He's seen here walking with his granddaughter, Maxileidy. A court ruling retroactively denies Dominican nationality to anyone born after 1929 who does not have a
Conflict & Justice
There’s a long story behind ‘anti-Haitianismo’ in the Dominican Republic
Global Politics
New York City begins to celebrate first immigrant — a Dominican
Environment
UN Climate Secretariat meets with renewed sense of urgency
Environment
Insurance industry looking at revising rates to reflect changing climate
Development & Education
Adventure tourism group plans bike race in Haiti to raise awareness
Global Politics
Young, undocumented immigrants now able to apply for temporary quasi-legal residency
Global Politics
U.S. immigrant high school students reflect on American Dream
Arts, Culture & Media
Looking for this decade’s Missy Elliott
Progress and obstacles in Haiti relief efforts
Health & Medicine
Clean water critical need in Haiti
Arts, Culture & Media
“Sugar” a different kind of baseball story
Arts, Culture & Media
What’s in a Street Name? New York City’s Immigrant History
Whales at Home in the Caribbean
Arts, Culture & Media
Bachata: Two Generations Carry on Playing Music from Dominican Republic
Global Politics
Major League Baseball Angered Over Dominican Ballplayer Film
Conflict & Justice
Immigrant High Schoolers Reflect on the American Dream
Conflict & Justice
New York Lawmaker Seeks to Unseat Charles Rangel and Become America’s First Dominican Congressman
Global Politics
The Dominican Republic’s Presidential Campaigns Take Manhattan
Arts, Culture & Media
Michel Camilo’s Afro-Caribbean Jazz from Dominican Republic