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CNN —The Senate on Thursday confirmed career foreign service member Dennis Hankins to be US ambassador to Haiti, where widespread violence has brought social order to the brink of collapse. The unrest has forced tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and prompted United States, Germany and European Union embassies in Haiti to evacuate personnel. Hankins’ confirmation comes after Haiti’s Prime Minister Ariel Henry announced on Monday that he would resign following weeks of chaos. The former ambassador to Mali and to Guinea has worked for the State Department for nearly four decades. He served in Haiti earlier in his foreign service career.

Persons: Dennis Hankins, Hankins, Ariel Henry, Joe Biden, Michele Sison, CNN’s Colin McCullough, Caitlin Stephen Hu, Helen Regan Organizations: CNN, European Union, US Marine, Haitian, Southern Command, Haiti’s, State Department Locations: Haiti, Caribbean, Port, United States, Germany, Mali, Guinea

Feb. 2 - 8, 2024Days of wind, rain and heavy snowfall caused power outages, street flooding and damaging mudslides in California, Ballet dancers audition for scholarships in Illinois and actor Annette Bening receives kisses from Harvard University theatrical students in Massachusetts. This gallery highlights some of the most compelling images in North America published in the past week by The Associated Press. The selection was curated by AP Photo Editor Patrick Sison in New York. ____Photos You Should See View All 21 ImagesFollow AP visual journalism:AP Images on Twitter: http://twitter.com/AP_ImagesAP Images blog: http://apimagesblog.com

Persons: Annette Bening, Patrick Sison Organizations: Ballet, Harvard University, Associated Press, AP Locations: California, Illinois, Massachusetts, North America, New York

Analyst Ronald Epstein downgraded the stock to neutral from buy and lowered his price target to $225 from $255. The new price target implies just 5% upside from Wednesday's close. Analyst Jed Kelly has an outperform rating and $44 price target on shares, implying 14.4% upside potential since Thursday's close. Analyst Wamsi Mohan reiterated his buy rating on the stock and raised his price target to $200 from $170. Analyst Michael Sison lowered his price target to $69 from $85, implying just 7.5% upside from Wednesday's close.

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Edgar Sison gave up his ability to work on commercial ships nearly two years after being accused of rape. Federal prosecutors had recently notified Hicks that that they wouldn’t be filing criminal charges against Sison, according to her attorney Ryan Melogy. By surrendering his ability to work on commercial ships, Sison avoided a hearing on the administrative assault charges against him. It also revealed the problems and limitations that the US Coast Guard has in investigating such offenses, as a CNN investigation found earlier this year. It ultimately took the agency nearly two years to successfully keep Sison from working on commercial ships.

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☆ Self-exiled Philippine communist leader Sison dies at 83
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] Jose Maria Sison, founder of Philippine Communist Party, reacts after he was released from Scheveningen prison in the Netherlands September 13, 2007. REUTERS/Ronald FleurbaaijMANILA, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Philippine communist leader Jose Maria Sison died on Friday night at the age of 83 after a two-week confinement in a hospital in the Netherlands, his party said on Saturday. Sison is the founder of the Philippine Communist Party, whose military wing - the New People's Army (NPA) - has been waging an armed rebellion in one of the world's longest-running insurgencies. The self-exiled communist leader has lived in Europe since the late 1980s, after his release from jail following the fall of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, whose namesake son was elected president in a May election this year. The party said Sison died peacefully at around 8:40 p.m. (1240 GMT) on Friday after being confined in the hospital in Utrecht.

☆ Biden to urge allied nations for more Ukraine support at U.N. General Assembly
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( Amanda Macias | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

UNITED NATIONS — When U.S. President Joe Biden takes the famed speakers rostrum at the United Nations Assembly Hall on Wednesday, he will do so under immense international scrutiny. Biden's address to the 77th United Nations General Assembly comes as Russia's war in Ukraine marches past its 200th day, while governments continue to grapple with the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic and as climate change uncertainties mount. Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Biden's Ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters on Friday that a U.S. delegation will meet with a Ukrainian delegation on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly. What they're interested in is continuing to raise this unprovoked war on Ukraine," she told reporters during a press briefing at the United Nations. Michele Sison, assistant secretary for International Organization Affairs at the State Department, said the Biden administration did not view this year's General Assembly "as business as usual."

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