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Ecuador declares state of emergency in three provinces over drug violence
Ecuadoran President Guillermo Lasso announced on April 29 he had decreed a state of emergency for two months in three provinces with the highest registered levels of violence due to drug trafficking.
"I have declared a state of exception in the (coastal) provinces of Guayas, Manabi and Esmeraldas, effective from midnight tonight," he said in a speech broadcast by state media.
Turkey’s top diplomat to embark on 7-day South America tour
Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu will start a seven-day South America tour that includes six states.
A statement issued by the Foreign Ministry informed that Çavuşoğlu will visit Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, Panama and Venezuela between April 23 and 29.
H&M profit soars as sales return to pre-pandemic levels
Swedish low-cost fashion brand Hennes & Mauritz AB said yesterday that its net sales in local currencies have increased by 8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2021 to 56 billion kronor ($6 billion) back at pre-pandemic level with the full year net sales increasing by 6 percent to 199 billion kronor ($21 billion).
New prison riot in Ecuador leaves 68 dead
Prison inmates from rival gangs in Ecuador fought each other with guns, explosives and blades in a bloodbath that left at least 68 dead in the same prison where a riot in September claimed 119 lives, officials said on Nov. 13.
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Italy: Green Certificate Works
For a week now, everyone working in Italy must be able to prove that they have been vaccinated, are post-ill or have recently been tested. And because the tests are paid for, the readiness for immunizations logically grows.
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Pandora Papers: More than 330 Politicians Worldwide with Hidden Millions in Offshore
The King of Jordan has amassed $ 100 million offshore. The Czech prime minister failed to declare a company through which he bought a mansion for 22 million. Financial activities of Putin's "unofficial propaganda minister" are revealed
Police unveil cocaine traffic route between Columbia, Turkey
Anti-narcotics teams in the capital Ankara have unveiled cocaine traffic between a Colombian drug cartel, Cali, and seven Turkish drug barons in a nine-month surveillance, according to a report by the daily Hürriyet.
"Cali cartel sent the drugs in boxes of flowers, bananas, coffee or strawberries, using air and sea routes," the report said on Oct. 3.
At Least 116 people have Died in a Prison Riot in Ecuador
Ecuador is trying to restore order in one of its largest prisons after a riot that killed at least 116 prisoners in the latest attack of violence, which authorities linked to groups fighting to control drug trafficking routes, Reuters reports.
Police regain control of Ecuador prison after riot carnage
Police gained control of an Ecuador prison on Sept. 30 where rioting has left at least 118 inmates dead, some of them decapitated, as rival drug gangs went to war armed with guns and grenades.
Another 86 inmates were wounded, six of them critically, according to Ecuador's prisons authority, in one of the deadliest prison battles in South American history.