Guayaquil (Ecuador) (AFP) – Images published by Ecuador’s Armed Forces showing military and police officers entering a prison in the penitentiary complex of Guayaquil, the nerve center of the government’s war on drug gangs. IMAGES
Guayaquil (Ecuador) (AFP) – Images published by Ecuador’s Armed Forces showing hundreds of military and police officers entering a prison in the penitentiary complex of Guayaquil. Security forces “carry out a new intervention in the Centro de Privación de Libertad #Guayas, controlling the external and internal perimeter of the penitentiary center,” the Armed Forces announces on X. IMAGES
Islamabad (AFP) – Pakistan said Thursday it carried out strikes against militant targets in Iran, with Tehran reporting a death toll of seven civilians after staging its own air raid in Pakistan earlier this week.
Washington (AFP) – US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby says that if Huthis stop their attacks in the Red Sea, the US ‘can certainly reconsider’ its decision to list Huthis as ‘terrorists’.
Torkham (Pakistan) (AFP) – Hundreds of trucks remain stranded on the Pakistan side of the busiest frontier crossing with Afghanistan on Tuesday, days after the border points were closed to trade amid an ongoing dispute between the neighbouring countries. Truck drivers waiting in Pakistan complained that officials had only recently begun asking for a visa and a passport to cross the border.
Guayaquil (Ecuador) (AFP) – Images of Ecuador’s National Police removing the body of the prosecutor investigating an armed assault by gangsters on live television from a crime scene, after he was shot dead in Guayaquil. Images also show Cesar Suarez’s car riddled with bullet holes on the street. IMAGES
Guayaquil (Ecuador) (AFP) – Images of the scene where the prosecutor investigating the dramatic live-broadcast armed assault last week on an Ecuadoran television station was shot dead in Guayaquil. IMAGES
London (AFP) – A touring pop-up exhibition on British-Jewish identity opens in London ahead of Holocaust Memorial Day 2024, marked on January 27, with interactive displays that tackle antisemitic stereotypes. Planning for the exhibition pre-dates the unprecedented Hamas attacks in Israel on 7 October 2023.
Beijing (AFP) – China urges Pakistan and Iran to show “restraint”, after Islamabad said Tehran had carried out an air strike on its territory that killed two children. It also hits back at restrictions unveiled by Canada on research funding to prevent the sharing of advanced technologies developed by Canadian universities with several countries including China, saying they were ‘short-sighted and unwise’.
Davos (Switzerland) (AFP) – The United States does “not see” the possibility of negotiations to bring an end to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Secretary of State Antony Blinken says during a panel discussion at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos.
