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HAITI

Violence spreading to key farmlands: UN

Haiti's brutal gang wars have spread from the capital Port-au-Prince to key farming heartlands, displacing tens of thousands of people and having a devastating impact on access to food staples, the United Nations said in a report on Tuesday. Violence has gradually escalated in the Bas-Artibonite region north of the capital, the source of staples such as rice. A UN-backed force, led by Kenya, has been green-lit but could take months to deploy.

JAPAN

At least 1 killed as US military plane crashes

A US military aircraft carrying six people crashed into the sea in western Japan on Wednesday, killing at least one crew member. Japan's coast guard said it found what appeared to be wreckage from the tilt-rotor V-22 Osprey some 3 kilometers from Yakushima island. The cause of the crash and the status of the five others on the aircraft were not immediately known, coast guard spokesman Kazuo Ogawa said.

Agencies - Xinhua