The latest from Haiti.

The pandemic has grown worse in recent weeks in Haiti, an impoverished Caribbean country which has yet to begin vaccinating its citizens.

Most of the cases were confined to one Assembly office. Legislators and staff members, regardless of their vaccination status, must now wear masks at all times in the Capitol.

The president summoned his top cybersecurity advisers to consider immediate action to disrupt Russian incursions.

A group of unknown assailants had stormed Mr. Moïse’s residence early on Wednesday, shooting him and wounding his wife. The interim prime minister declared a “state of siege.”

Jacob Zuma, the former president of South Africa, was arrested on Wednesday and will begin serving a 15-month prison sentence after being found guilty of contempt for failing to appear before a commission investigating corruption.

What often stands between Haiti and economic success is the rest of the world.

Both opponents and supporters of the Haitian president saw his assassination as a worrisome sign that the already fragile country was descending into greater turmoil.

Haiti’s Ambassador to the U.S., Bocchit Edmond, said the murder of President Jovenel Moïse “was carried out by well-trained professional killers.”

President Jovenel Moïse of Haiti was killed in an attack at his private residence on the outskirts of the capital, Port-au-Prince.