AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti is likely to install an interim government to transfer power to a new president, a senior U.S. official said on Monday, after the Caribbean nation called off an election days before current President Michel Martelly is due to leave…

Lawmakers selected an opposition senator who served as interior minister under former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide as Haiti's interim president on Sunday, in a move aimed at filling a power vacuum threatening stability in the Caribbean nation.

A medical student from Tulane who was in Haiti as part of a school program to promote maternal and child health was shot and wounded during an armed robbery, the university said. Marc Kahn Sr. Associate Dean for Admissions and Student Affairs at the Tulane…

Hurricane Matthew is the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade. Over 200 people were killed in Haiti and thousands displaced, before the storm headed for the southeastern United States. Follow rolling updates here.

The death toll in the Caribbean has spike to nearly 600 people and 842 of those deaths have been in Haiti alone. That number is expected to climb once communication is reestablished.

AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti started burying some of its dead in mass graves in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, a government official said on Sunday, as cholera spread in the devastated southwest and the death toll from the storm rose to 1,000 people.

The bus was driving from Cap Haitien to Port-au-Prince when it crashed into a "rara" parade in the city of Gonaives.

At least two people were injured after shots were fired at a motorcade carrying former Haitian president Jean-Bertrand Aristide in Port-au-Prince Monday in an apparent assassination attempt.