Dominican Republic

Luis Abi­nad­er says his gov­ern­ment has ‘no al­ter­na­tive but to take dras­tic mea­sures’ as canal dis­pute deep­ens.

The Do­mini­can gov­ern­ment has al­leged that a Hait­ian-built canal threat­ens to di­vert its wa­ter and harm its farm­lands.

At least one per­son is dead af­ter storm caused heavy flood­ing across Caribbean na­tion and af­fect­ed hun­dreds of homes.