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Ecuador: from Darwin to drug trafficking

Ecuador: from Darwin to drug trafficking

Five things to know about Ecuador, which holds a runoff presidential election on Sunday.

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Ecuador to elect a president amid bloody gang war

Ecuador to elect a president amid bloody gang war

Shell-shocked by the eruption of a bloody drug war that has spilled from the country's prisons into the streets, Ecuadorans will vote for a new president Sunday just weeks after a popular candidate was assassinated in public.

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Anguished parents seek answers in Canada 'suicide kit' probe

Anguished parents seek answers in Canada 'suicide kit' probe

The moment Kim Prosser learned that her 19-year-old son Ashtyn had died by suicide, she says she dropped to the floor, where she lay "shaking and so cold."

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Scorsese 'Flower Moon' epic based on real Native American past

Scorsese 'Flower Moon' epic based on real Native American past

Martin Scorsese's new film "Killers of the Flower Moon" recounts how the Osage nation of Native Americans gained significant oil wealth in the early 20th century and the murderous plot by outsiders to seize it.

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'Flower Moon' descendants feel pain of murdered Osage ancestors

'Flower Moon' descendants feel pain of murdered Osage ancestors

As eagles swoop overhead and a cool autumnal wind blows through the cemetery in Gray Horse, on the ancient lands of the Osage people in northern Oklahoma, Margie Burkhart points to the tombs of ancestors murdered a century ago.

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UN calls for $294 mn for 'urgent needs' in Gaza, occupied West Bank

UN calls for $294 mn for 'urgent needs' in Gaza, occupied West Bank

The United Nations on Thursday issued an emergency appeal for $294 million to address "the most urgent needs" in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, where more than 400,000 Palestinians have fled their homes in recent days.

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Argentina maintain winning start in World Cup qualifiers

Argentina maintain winning start in World Cup qualifiers

World champions Argentina made it three wins out of three in South American World Cup qualifying with a hard-earned 1-0 win over a determined Paraguay on Thursday.

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Nagelsmann banks on experience as Germany's Euro 2024 reboot begins

Nagelsmann banks on experience as Germany's Euro 2024 reboot begins

Julian Nagelsmann, the youngest Germany coach for almost a century, has turned to veterans as he hopes to rebuild the fallen giants nine months out from hosting Euro 2024.

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Captain Morgan, Wales uncap the best in rum situation

Captain Morgan, Wales uncap the best in rum situation

Flanker Jac Morgan has been pivotal to Wales' advance into the World Cup quarter-finals, leading from the front in a number of outstanding perfomances that has seen him dubbed his country's very own Antoine Dupont.

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'Dangerous' Wales hope to ride momentum past Argentina into World Cup semis

'Dangerous' Wales hope to ride momentum past Argentina into World Cup semis

Wales play Argentina in Marseille on Saturday with a place in the World Cup semi-final at stake, a position few thought Warren Gatland's Welsh side would be in after a year of turmoil.

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