Calls for more aid, support for police amid surge in violence in the Caribbean nation since the end of last year. Haiti is approaching a “point of no return” as it struggles to respond to escalating gang violence, the top United Nations official in the country has said. Maria Isabel Salvador, the UN special representative to the Caribbean nation, delivered the warning to the UN Security Council on...

China has warned countries against striking trade deals with the United States at Beijing’s expense, ratcheting up its rhetoric in a spiralling trade war between the world’s two biggest economies. Responding to reports suggesting that US President Donald Trump’s administration is pressuring other countries to isolate China, a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of Commerce said on Monday that Beijing “will take countermeasures in a resolute and reciprocal manner”...