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Five Greek police officers in custody pending trial for assisting illegal migrant crossings

Five police officers accused of cooperating with human traffickers to facilitate the entry of at least 100 migrants into Greece are being held in custody pending trial
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Protesters back on the streets of Belgrade as president ignores calls to stand down

Thousands of people have rallied for a fifth time in a month after two mass shootings in Serbia that shook the nation, even as the country’s populist president rejected any responsibility and ignored their demands to step down
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People march during a protest against violence in Belgrade, Serbia, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Tens of thousands of people rallied in Serbia's capital on Saturday in protest of the government's handling of a crisis after two mass shootings in the Balkan country. (AP Photo/Almir Alic)
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Israelis rally against proposed judiciary overhaul continue for 22nd week

Tens of thousands of Israelis are protesting judicial overhaul plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling coalition, the most hard-line in Israel’s history
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Israelis protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Saturday, June 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
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Rain brings much-needed relief to firefighters battling Nova Scotia wildfires

A wildfire forced thousands of residents from their homes over the past week.
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Department of Natural Resources and Renewables crew members Matt Sartoris (left) and Ryan McLellan cool off while fighting wildfires near Tantallon, Nova Scotia, Thursday, June 1, 2023. Rain and a rainy forecast for the weekend have fire officials hopeful they can get the largest wildfire ever recorded in Canada’s Atlantic Coast province of Nova Scotia under control. (Communications Nova Scotia /The Canadian Press via AP)
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Hong Kong detains 8 people on eve of Tiananmen Square anniversary

Four of them were arrested for allegedly disrupting order in public spaces.
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Police officers set up a cordon off area to conduct a search on members of the public in the Causeway Bay area on the eve of the 34th anniversary of China's Tiananmen Square massacre, in Hong Kong, Saturday, June 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Louise Delmotte)
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Key suspect in Natalee Holloway's case moved to new prison ahead of extradition to US

He's the chief suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of an American student
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FILE - Joran van der Sloot sits in the courtroom before his sentencing at San Pedro prison in Lima, Peru, Jan. 13, 2012. The government of Peru on Wednesday, May 10, 2023, issued an executive order allowing the temporary extradition to the United States of Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the unsolved 2005 disappearance of American Natalee Holloway in the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba. (AP Photo/Karel Navarro, File)
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Cardinal performs rite to restore Vatican altar desecrated by man's naked protest

The archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica has performed a special rite at the basilica's main altar
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CORRECTS CARDINAL NAME- Cardinal Mauro Gambetti, right, celebrates a penitential rite in front of the altar of the confession inside St. Peter's Basilica, Saturday, June 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Official: 1 dead, 14 rescued after overloaded boat capsizes near southern Haiti

Officials say one person has died and 14 were rescued after an overloaded boat traveling without authorization capsized near Haiti’s southern coast
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Natalee Holloway suspect will likely be extradited to US soon: Sources

Joran van der Sloot faces extortion and wire fraud charges in the U.S.
June 03
In this June 4, 2010, file photo, Joran van der Sloot is escorted by police after being handed over by Chilean authorities at the border between both countries in Tacna, 1,250 kilometers south of Lima, Peru.
June 03

Indian athletes protest culture of sexual harassment in wrestling

The athletes are demanding investigations into the actions of Wrestling India Federation Chief, threatening to boycott all future events.
June 03
The athletes are demanding investigations into the actions of Wrestling India Federation Chief, threatening to boycott all future events.
June 03

Russia bans 'unfriendly' countries' journalists from showpiece economic gathering

Journalists from countries that Russia regards as unfriendly have been banned.
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June 03

Gadhafi's son goes on hunger strike in Lebanon to protest detention without trial

He has been held in Lebanon for more than seven years without a trial.
June 03
FILE - Hannibal Gadhafi, son of ousted Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, watches an elite military unit exercise in Zlitan, Libya, Sept. 25, 2011. Hannibal Gadhafi who has been held in Lebanon for more than seven years began a hunger strike Saturday, June 3, 2023, to protest his detention without trial, his lawyer said. (AP Photo/Abdel Magid al-Fergany, File)
June 03

Austria's Social Democrats choose Doskozil as new leader, looking to elections expected next year

Austria’s center-left Social Democrats have elected Hans Peter Doskozil as their new party leader Saturday, hoping to turn around the party’s fortunes ahead of expected parliamentary elections in the small Alpine nation next year
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June 03

Death toll from Senegal protests rises to 15 as opposition supporters clash with police

Senegal's government says the number of people killed in clashes between police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko has now risen to 15, including two security officers
June 03
Boys stand inside a destroyed supermarket in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Senegal's government says at least nine people have been killed in violent clashes between police and supporters of opposition leader Ousmane Sonko, with authorities issuing a blanket ban on the use of several social media platforms in the aftermath of the violence. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)
June 03

India's deadly train crash renews questions over safety as government pushes railway upgrade

India’s prime minister had been scheduled to inaugurate an electrical semi-high-speed train equipped with a safety feature _ another step in the modernization of an antiquated railway that is the lifeline of the world’s most populous nation
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EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT- The hand of a victim is seen at the site of passenger trains that derailed in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Rescuers are wading through piles of debris and wreckage to pull out bodies and free people after two passenger trains derailed in India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds as rail cars were flipped over and mangled in one of the country’s deadliest train crashes in decades. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
June 03

Fears rise for civilian safety as Ukraine investigates locked air-raid shelters

Concerns around civilian safety have spiked in Ukraine, as officials announced that an inspection had found nearly a quarter of the country's air-raid shelters locked or unusable, just days after Russian missiles allegedly killed a woman in Kyiv as she...
June 03
People take cover at a metro station during a Russian rocket attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, May 29, 2023. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
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Turkey's Erdogan takes oath of office, ushering in his third presidential term

Turkey's Erdogan takes oath of office, ushering in his third presidential term
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Turkey to send commando unit to help quell unrest in Kosovo

The Turkish defense ministry announced Saturday it will be sending a commando battalion to northern Kosovo in response to a NATO request for troops to help quell violent unrest
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Pope to visit Mongolia at end of summer in visit rich in geopolitical significance

Pope Francis is traveling to Mongolia at the end of the summer
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Pope Francis, framed by a Swiss guard, meets with pilgrims from Concesio and Sotto il Monte on the 60th anniversary of the death of Pope John XXIII and the election of Paul VI in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Pope Francis warned the Vatican's missionary fundraisers on Saturday to not allow financial corruption to creep into their work, insisting that spirituality and spreading the Gospel must drive their operations, not mere entrepreneurship. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
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Pope to visit Mongolia at end of summer in visit rich in geopolitical significance

Pope Francis is traveling to Mongolia at the end of the summer
June 03
Pope Francis, framed by a Swiss guard, meets with pilgrims from Concesio and Sotto il Monte on the 60th anniversary of the death of Pope John XXIII and the election of Paul VI in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Pope Francis warned the Vatican's missionary fundraisers on Saturday to not allow financial corruption to creep into their work, insisting that spirituality and spreading the Gospel must drive their operations, not mere entrepreneurship. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
June 03

Top Indian wrestling stars protest culture of sexual harassment in Indian wrestling

“We women wrestlers feel there is nothing left for us in this country.”
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Indian wrestlers, right, Bajrang Punia, Vinesh Phogat, and Sakshee Malikkh stand on a police barricade as they speak to their supporters near landmark India Gate monument during a protest march against Wrestling Federation of India President Brijbhushan Sharan Singh in New Delhi, May, 23, 2023.
June 03

Israeli military says gunman kills 2 soldiers along Egyptian border

Israel's military says a shootout in southern Israel along the Egyptian border has killed two Israeli soldiers
June 03
Israeli soldiers secure a gate leading to a military base following a deadly shootout in southern Israel along the Egyptian border, Saturday, June 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Sudan conflict: Neighbors volunteer to bury dead amid battle for Khartoum

As war rages in Sudan, a doctor living near Khartoum organized burial parties.
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Members of the Sudanese Red Crescent Society work with volunteers to move bodies at Al-Shaqilab Cemetery in Khartoum, Sudan, in a photo taken on May 10, 2023, and released by the society.
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Delegates working to end global plastics pollution agree to craft a draft treaty

Global negotiators have agreed to craft a draft treaty to end plastic pollution
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FILE - A child sits inside a canoe with empty plastic bottles he collected to sell for recycling in the floating slum of Makoko in Lagos, Nigeria, Nov. 8, 2022. Negotiators from around the world gather at UNESCO in Paris on Monday, May 29, 2023, for a second round of talks aiming toward a global treaty on fighting plastic pollution in 2024. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba, File)
June 03

Turkey's Erdogan takes oath of office, ushering in his third presidential term

Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was sworn into his third presidential term, has reappointed an internationally respected former banker as finance minister in a sign that his new government might pursue more conventional economic policies
June 03
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan joins legislators elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in the May 14 parliamentary elections and attend their first parliamentary session to take the oath, in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, June 2, 2023. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party and its nationalist and Islamist allies have a majority in the 600-seat parliament, having won a total of 323 seats. Erdogan, who won a runoff presidential vote on May 28, formally starts his third presidential term following a ceremony on Saturday. (AP Photo/Ali Unal)
June 03

Protests, poisoning and prison: A look at the life of Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny

In a span of a decade, Alexei Navalny has gone from the Kremlin’s biggest foe to Russia’s most prominent political prisoner
June 03
FILE - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, center, attends a rally in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018. In a span of a decade, Navalny has gone from the Kremlin's biggest foe to Russia's most prominent political prisoner. Already serving two convictions that have landed him in prison for at least nine years, he faces a new trial that could keep him behind for another two decades. (AP Photo/Evgeny Feldman, File)
June 03

Protests, poisoning and prison: A look at the life of Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny

In a span of a decade, Alexei Navalny has gone from the Kremlin’s biggest foe to Russia’s most prominent political prisoner
June 03
FILE - Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, center, attends a rally in Moscow, Russia, Sunday, Jan. 28, 2018. In a span of a decade, Navalny has gone from the Kremlin's biggest foe to Russia's most prominent political prisoner. Already serving two convictions that have landed him in prison for at least nine years, he faces a new trial that could keep him behind for another two decades. (AP Photo/Evgeny Feldman, File)
June 03

As anti-gay sentiment grows, more LGBTQ+ people seek to flee Uganda

Frightened LGBTQ+ Ugandans are searching for a way to escape a new law prescribing the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality
June 03
Ugandan transgender woman Pretty Peter who fled her home and country in 2019, and wished to be identified by her chosen name out of concern for her safety, looks at portraits on the wall from a global project called "Where Love is Illegal", at the safe house where she now lives in Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya Thursday, June 1, 2023. She says frightened members of the Ugandan LGBTQ+ community are searching for a way to get out of the country and some have stayed indoors since new anti-gay legislation was signed on Monday. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
June 03

As anti-gay sentiment grows, more LGBTQ+ people seek to flee Uganda

Frightened LGBTQ+ Ugandans are searching for a way to escape a new law prescribing the death penalty for ‘aggravated homosexuality
June 03
Ugandan transgender woman Pretty Peter who fled her home and country in 2019, and wished to be identified by her chosen name out of concern for her safety, looks at portraits on the wall from a global project called "Where Love is Illegal", at the safe house where she now lives in Nairobi, the capital of neighboring Kenya Thursday, June 1, 2023. She says frightened members of the Ugandan LGBTQ+ community are searching for a way to get out of the country and some have stayed indoors since new anti-gay legislation was signed on Monday. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga)
June 03

Inside Russia's penal colonies: A look at life for political prisoners caught in Putin's crackdowns

Alexei Navalny will spend his 47th birthday Sunday in a tiny prison cell with hardly any natural light
June 03
FILE Sasha Skochilenko, a 32-year-old artist and musician, stands in a defendant's cage in a courtroom during a hearing in the Vasileostrovsky district court in St. Petersburg, Russia, on April 13, 2022. Skochilenko is in detention amid her ongoing trial following her April 2022 arrest in St. Petersburg on the charges of spreading false information about the army. She has spent over a year behind bars. (AP Photo, File)
June 03

UAE defends Big Oil's role at UN climate summit it will host

A senior United Arab Emirates official says the Gulf nation wants a U.N. climate summit it’s hosting later this year to deliver “game-changing results” for international efforts to curb global warming
June 03
FILE - Luxury towers that dominate the skyline in the Dubai Marina district, center, and the new Dubai Harbor development, right, are seen from the observation deck of "The View at The Palm Jumeirah" in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on April 6, 2021. A senior United Arab Emirates official says the Gulf nation wants a U.N. climate summit it’s hosting later this year to deliver “game-changing results” for international efforts to curb global warming. But UAE diplomat Majid al-Suwaidi said doing so will require having the fossil fuel industry at the table. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili, File)
June 03

EXPLAINER: Panama launches operation against smugglers in Darien Gap

Panama has unveiled a new effort to control illegal migration through the treacherous Darien Gap that spans its eastern border with Colombia
June 03
FILE - Haitian migrants wade through water as they cross the Darien Gap from Colombia to Panama in hopes of reaching the U.S., May 9, 2023. Hundreds of thousands of migrants have risked the dangerous trek through the jungle in recent years and the flow this year is on a record pace. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia, File)
June 03

India train crash kills over 280, injures 900 in one of nation's worst rail disasters

Rescuers in India have found no additional survivors from the massive derailment involving two passenger trains that left more than 280 people dead and hundreds injured
June 03
Rescuers work at the site of a passenger trains that derailed in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Rescuers are wading through piles of debris and wreckage to pull out bodies and free people after two passenger trains derailed in India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds as rail cars were flipped over and mangled in one of the country’s deadliest train crashes in decades. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
June 03

India train crash kills over 280, injures 900 in one of nation's worst rail disasters

Rescuers in India have found no additional survivors from the massive derailment involving two passenger trains that left more than 280 people dead and hundreds injured
June 03
Rescuers work at the site of a passenger trains that derailed in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Rescuers are wading through piles of debris and wreckage to pull out bodies and free people after two passenger trains derailed in India, killing more than 280 people and injuring hundreds as rail cars were flipped over and mangled in one of the country’s deadliest train crashes in decades. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)
June 02

A look at deadly train crashes in India in recent decades

The latest deadly train crash in India happened Friday, when two passenger trains derailed
June 02
Injured passengers of trains accident sit at a local hospital, in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Two passenger trains derailed in India, killing more than 200 people and trapping hundreds of others inside more than a dozen damaged rail cars, officials said. (AP Photo)
June 02

A look at deadly train crashes in India in recent decades

The latest deadly train crash in India happened Friday, when two passenger trains derailed
June 02
Injured passengers of trains accident sit at a local hospital, in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, Saturday, June 3, 2023. Two passenger trains derailed in India, killing more than 200 people and trapping hundreds of others inside more than a dozen damaged rail cars, officials said. (AP Photo)
June 02

US defense secretary says Washington won't stand for 'coercion and bullying' from China

American Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin says Washington would not stand for any “coercion and bullying” of its allies and partners by China, while assuring Beijing that the United States remains committed to maintaining the status quo on Taiwan and ...
June 02
Japan's Minister of Defense Yasukazu Hamada, center, talks with a Singapore defense ministry staff during the ministerial roundtable session at the 20th International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) Shangri-La Dialogue, Asia's annual defense and security forum in Singapore, Saturday, June 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
June 02

Mexico arrests 2nd migrant in detention center fire that killed 40

Two federal officials say Mexican authorities have arrested a second migrant for his alleged involvement in a March fire set inside a border detention center that left 40 migrants dead and dozens injured
June 02
June 02

Indian crash leaves at least 200 dead as fatalities rise

The accident occurred in Odisha on Friday.
June 02
Rescuers work at the site of passenger trains that derailed in Balasore district, in the eastern Indian state of Orissa, June 2, 2023.
June 02

At least 200 killed, hundreds injured in train crash in India

The crash occurred Friday night in Odisha.
June 02
The crash occurred Friday night in Odisha.
June 02

Money laundering trial ends for former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli

The trial of former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli and 14 others for alleged money laundering related to their purchase of a publishing company concluded Friday, starting the clock on the 30 days the judge has to issue a verdict
June 02
FILE - Panama's former President Ricardo Martinelli talks to reporters near his home, in Panama City, Aug. 9, 2019. Martinelli's trial and 14 others for alleged money laundering related to their purchase of a publishing company concluded on Friday, June 2, 2023, starting the clock on the 30 days the judge has to issue a verdict. (AP Photo/Eric Batista, File)
June 02

El Salvador soccer executives dodge prison with payment to stampede victims' families

Five soccer club executives and stadium officials arrested for their alleged roles in the stampede at an El Salvador league game that left nine fans dead and dozens injured will avoid prison by making payments to the injured and relatives of dead
June 02
Relatives accompany the remains of Fernando Chavez, 47, one of the soccer fans that died in the recent Cuscatlan stadium stampede, during his funeral in San Salvador, El Salvador, Monday, May 22, 2023. The tragedy occurred when stampeding fans pushed through one of the access gates during a quarterfinal Salvadoran league soccer match between Alianza and FAS. (AP Photo/Salvador Melendez)
June 02

Brazil's prosecutors block zipline construction at Rio's iconic Sugarloaf Mountain

Prosecutors in Brazil have blocked a decision to authorize the installment of ziplines at Rio de Janeiro's iconic Sugarloaf Mountain, claiming they will damage the environment around one of the United Nations world’s heritage sites
June 02
FILE - Sugarloaf mountain and the Guanabara Bay are seen in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 8, 2016. Brazil’s federal prosecutors blocked a decision on Thursday, June 1, 2023, to authorize the installment of ziplines at Rio de Janeiro’s world-famous Sugarloaf Mountain, claiming they will damage the environment around one of the United Nations world’s heritage sites. (AP Photo/Leo Correa, File)
June 02

Top state bureaucrat says death toll in Indian train accident climbs to more than 200

Top state bureaucrat says death toll in Indian train accident climbs to more than 200
June 02
June 02

Acclaimed composer Kaija Saariaho dies at age 70 of brain tumor

Kaija Saariaho, who wrote acclaimed works that made her the among the most prominent composers of the 21st century, has died
June 02
FILE - Composer Kaija Saariaho, of Finland, arrives for the Polar Music Prize ceremony, where she was named Polar Music Prize laureate Composer for 2013, at the Stockholm concert hall in Stockholm on Aug. 27, 2013. Saariaho, who wrote acclaimed works that made her the among the most prominent composers of the 21st century, died Friday, June 2, 2023, at her apartment in Paris, her family said in a statement posted on her Facebook page. She was 70. Saariaho had been diagnosed in February 2021 with glioblastoma, an aggressive and incurable brain tumor. (Christine Olsson/TT News Agency via AP, File)
June 02

Fire chief tells news outlet that death toll in India train accident has risen to 120, with more than 800 hurt

Fire chief tells news outlet that death toll in India train accident has risen to 120, with more than 800 hurt
June 02
June 02

Poland, Lithuania fear new migrant crisis due to Belarus' offer of visa-free travel

Belarus is introducing a visa-free travel arrangement with dozens of countries for a month, raising fears that neighboring Poland and Lithuania might see a sudden increase in unauthorized migration
June 02
June 02

Bolivian Catholics unfazed by sex scandals as they gear up for massive festival

Catholic devotees in Bolivia are preparing for one of the country’s biggest religious celebrations this weekend at a time when the church in this Andean country has been rocked by an increasing number of sex abuse scandals
June 02
A priest releases incense after dressing the statue of "Jesus del Gran Poder" or Lord of Great Power, at the "Jesus del Gran Poder" church in La Paz, Bolivia, Thursday, June 1, 2023. Thousands of dancers and musicians will parade on Saturday to show their devotion and thank God and for the year's blessings. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
June 02

Ecuador's president declines to run in snap elections after he disbands National Assembly

Ecuador’s president Guillermo Lasso says he will not run for presidential reelection in the early elections that were called after his decision to dissolve the National Assembly two weeks ago
June 02
Presidential cabinet members take a selfie before press conference by Ecuador's President Guillermo Lasso at the Carondelet government palace in Quito, Ecuador, Friday, June 2, 2023. Lasso, who dissolved the National Assembly two weeks prior, announced he would not run for president in elections on Aug. 20. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)
June 02

Panama launches operation in Darien jungle targeting organized crime and migrant smugglers

Panama has launched a security operation along its shared border with Colombia to combat organized crime groups and migrant smugglers involved in record-setting migration through the perilous Darien Gap this year
June 02
Panamanian border police attend a launch ceremony for Operation Shield in Nicanor, Darien province, Panama, Friday, June 2, 2023. Security officials said Operation Shield is part of the agreement reached with the governments of Colombia and the United States in April to stop the flow of migrants through the border’s jungle-clad mountains known as the Darien Gap. (AP Photo/Arnulfo Franco)