ByRODRIGO ABD Associated Press October 13, 2023, 12:02 AM A girl runs past soldiers patrolling Duran, the sister city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, Saturday, Sept. 30, 2023. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd) The Associated Press DURAN, Ecuador — Dismembered limbs lie on the street next to playing children. Prisons are arenas of gang warfare. Bloodshed keeps schools shut … Read more
Comment on this storyComment The Israeli military has summoned 360,000 reservists to fight in the war with Hamas — the largest mobilization since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, when 400,000 reservists were called up. Nearly 4 percent of Israel’s population of 9.8 million, responding to military orders, left their regular jobs and their families to … Read more
Touch upon this storyComment QUITO, Ecuador — The assassination of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio has shocked Ecuador simply days earlier than its elections, threatening a brand new period of political violence in a rustic that has traditionally loved relative peace. The South American nation, wedged between coca producers Colombia and Peru, was already rising as … Read more