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(Reuters) – An armed attack has killed 10 people in the Ecuadorean port city of Guayaquil, Ecuador’s public prosecutor’s office and police reported on Sunday. A rifle and 9-millimeter caliber guns were found at the scene, the Ecuadorian Prosecutor’s Office reported on its Twitter account. “At the moment, our investigation and intelligence units are carrying out operational actions in order to identify those responsible,” the National Police tweeted. So far […]

By Lucinda Elliott and Daniela Desantis ASUNCION (Reuters) -Paraguayans began voting on Sunday in what could be the biggest electoral challenge to the ruling conservative Colorado Party in over a decade and with the country’s long ties with Taiwan potentially at stake. Polling stations opened at 7 a.m. (1100 GMT) in what is expected to be a close contest between Colorado Party presidential candidate Santiago Pena, a 44-year-old economist, and […]

(Reuters) -A man shot dead five neighbors including an 8-year-old boy after some of them had asked him to stop shooting a semiautomatic rifle in his front yard in Cleveland, Texas, because it was keeping their baby awake, police said on Saturday. Police were still looking for the suspect, who used an AR-15-style rifle in the shooting late inside the neighbors’ home on Friday, San Jacinto County Sheriff Greg Capers […]

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An Israeli army officer was removed from his post on Sunday for attending a political protest in uniform, the first such case during a crisis over the government’s planned judicial overhaul that has stirred rancour within the military ranks. Local media identified the officer as a major who was televised carrying a stretcher in a publicity stunt during a pro-government rally that was convened on Thursday in […]

By El Tayeb Siddig and Aidan Lewis KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudan’s rival military forces accused each other of fresh violations of a ceasefire on Sunday as their deadly conflict rumbled on for a third week despite warnings of a slide towards catastrophic civil war. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands wounded since a long-simmering power struggle between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted into […]

By El Tayeb Siddig and Aidan Lewis KHARTOUM (Reuters) -Sudan’s rival military forces accused each other of fresh violations of a ceasefire on Sunday as their deadly conflict rumbled on for a third week despite warnings of a slide towards catastrophic civil war. Hundreds of people have been killed and thousands wounded since a long-simmering power struggle between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) erupted into […]

By Lucinda Elliott and Daniela Desantis ASUNCION (Reuters) -Paraguayans began voting on Sunday in what could be the biggest electoral challenge to the ruling conservative Colorado Party in over a decade and with the country’s long ties with Taiwan potentially at stake. Polling stations opened at 7 a.m. (1100 GMT) in what is expected to be a close contest between Colorado Party presidential candidate Santiago Pena, a 44-year-old economist, and […]

(Corrects spelling in dateline and in first para to Sofia from Sophia) SOFIA (Reuters) – Bulgarian ultra-marathon runner, Krasse Gueorguiev, will live in a glass box for 15 days in a park in Sofia, to raise money to help young people fight addictions. Gueorguiev, a motivational speaker and charity ambassador, has run some 30 ultra-marathons worldwide, from the Arctic to Cambodia, as well as a 217-kilometre race in California’s Death […]

HOUSTON (Reuters) – The U.S. will not block a court auction of shares in oil refiner Citgo Petroleum Corp’s parent, Justice Department officials told a federal court, paving the way for a potential seizure by creditors of Venezuela’s most-prized foreign asset. The U.S. Treasury Department since 2020 has protected Citgo from creditors with claims against Venezuela, and its change of heart will allow claims to be settled by negotiation or […]