Spain has arrested the police chief in charge of its economic crimes unit after €20 million was found stashed in the walls of his house, as part of an investigation into the nation's biggest-ever cocaine bust, according to local media.
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange walked free for the first time in 12 years after a US judge signed off on his unexpected plea deal on Wednesday morning.
Assange walked out of the courtroom as a free man into the bright Saipan sunshine, raising one (...)
Ecuador was hit by a nationwide blackout on Wednesday, a senior government minister said, leaving some 18 million people in the dark for several hours.
The subway system in the capital, Quito, ground to a halt and traffic lights stopped working (...)
Ecuador is temporarily suspending a visa waiver agreement with China, citing evidence of irregular migration flows of Chinese citizens through the small South American country.
A statement from the Ecuadorian Foreign Ministry on Tuesday said that (...)
Top UN officials launched a fresh global campaign to tackle the climate emergency on Tuesday, with social media influencers, Indigenous leaders and corporate giants showing what they've done and what's to come.
The Climate Promise 2025 aims to (...)
Police in Ecuador said they have captured the fugitive leader of a powerful criminal gang.
Fabricio Colón Pico, the leader of Los Lobos, had been on the run since escaping from jail on Jan. 8.
Officials said they had traced Colón Pico, who had dyed (...)
On a blustery morning last month, volunteer Adriana Jasso raised the flaps to a tent propped up against the massive steel bars of the fence that straddles this stretch of the US-Mexico border.
On her side, plastic tables were piled with apples, (...)
By Ana María Roura, Daniel Wittenbeg & Blanca Moncada
GUAYAQUIL — Paul has been in a gang for around half his life, since he was 15.
"Things are dangerous right now. Death can come from anywhere," Paul tells us. Small, skinny and about 30 years old, (...)
The decision by Ecuador to forcibly enter the Mexican Embassy on Saturday and arrest a former vice president of the Andean country on corruption charges represents a breach of international law, the UN Secretary-General has said.
In a statement (...)
Mexico is cutting ties with Ecuador after police stormed the Mexican embassy in Quito to arrest former Ecuadorian Vice-President Jorge Glas.
Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said they had "forcibly entered" the embassy in a "flagrant (...)
Ecuador's youngest mayor, Brigitte García, has been shot dead.
The 27-year-old and her press officer were found dead in a car on Sunday in the town of San Vicente, where she had won the mayoral election last year.
No arrests have been made so far (...)
A huge ancient city has been found in the Amazon, hidden for thousands of years by lush vegetation.
The discovery changes what we know about the history of people living in the Amazon.
The houses and plazas in the Upano area in eastern Ecuador were (...)
Soldiers are on the streets in several cities in Ecuador as the country reels from an unprecedented day of violence.
Masked gunmen stormed a public TV studio during a live broadcast in the city of Guayaquil and bombs were detonated across Ecuador on (...)
A group of armed men have broken into a live television studio in Ecuador and threatened staff, footage shows.
A live broadcast by station TC in the city of Guayaquil was interrupted on Tuesday by the group, who were wearing hoods and carrying (...)
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa has declared an "internal armed conflict" in the country, ordering security forces to "neutralize" several criminal groups accused of spreading extreme violence in the Latin American nation.
The decree came shortly (...)
Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa on Monday declared a state of emergency for the South American nation after a notorious gang leader escaped from prison, heightening security fears as authorities struggle to control the bloodshed of a bloody (...)
أعلنت وزارة خارجية المكسيك، عن السماح بدخول نائب رئيس الإكوادور السابق خورخي غلاس كضيف، بعد تقدمه بطلب للسفارة المكسيكية في بلاده بتوفير الحماية له.
وأضافت الوزارة في بيانها، المنشور على حسابها الرسمي على موقع التواصل الاجتماعي X: «في 17 ديسمبر (...)
The members of the Security Council have condemned Friday's assault on a police station in southern Iran, in which 11 Iranian police officers were killed, and eight critically wounded.
The attack on the Rasak police station in the southeastern (...)
An indigenous community has won a court battle to regain ownership over its ancestral homeland in the Ecuadorian Amazon, more than 80 years after they were displaced because of war.
An Ecuadorian appeals court backed the Siekopai nation's claim over (...)
Businessman Daniel Noboa is to become the youngest president in Ecuador's history, at 35 years old.
Noboa won Sunday's election with 52.3% of the vote, ahead of Luisa González's 47.7%. She conceded defeat and congratulated her rival.
The (...)
Ecuadoreans are voting in the run-off of a presidential election that has been overshadowed by a crime wave which has turned the country into one of the most violent in the region.
The first round of the election was held just days after (...)
US President Joe Biden's administration is to build a section of border wall in southern Texas in an effort to stop rising levels of immigration.
Around 20 miles (32km) will be built in Starr County along its border with Mexico, where officials (...)
The US has offered a $5m (£4.1m) reward for details leading to the arrest of the "masterminds" who orchestrated the assassination of an Ecuadorean presidential candidate.
Fernando Villavicencio, who campaigned against corruption, was shot dead at a (...)
Costa Rica's president has ordered a state of emergency, citing a surge of migrants crossing through the country toward the United States.
"The people that arrive are passing across Costa Rica trying to get to the United States, basically," (...)
The Venezuelan government invited journalists to tour the Tocoron Penitentiary Center in Aragua state on Saturday — days after security forces reclaimed control of a prison that has spent many years under the control of gangs.
The Tocoron prison, (...)
