More than 90 prison security agents are currently being held by inmates across five different prisons in Ecuador, amid escalating violence in the country which saw the mayor of Ecuador’s sixth largest city killed over the weekend. Together with the National Police, the...
A former first lady and the son of an ex-president – both social democrats – will go head-to-head in Guatemala’s August runoff after no candidate secured enough votes to win Sunday’s first round of presidential elections. The battle between Sandra Torres and Bernardo Arevalo –...
The European Union hosted Latin American and Caribbean leaders Monday at a long-awaited summit to soothe strained ties, but found themselves divided over how to address Russia’s war in Ukraine. The summit of just over 50 senior figures is the first between Brussels and the...
Frankfurt, Brussels (21/7 – 37) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once again reversed course, approving Sweden’s bid to join the legacy European military bloc, having been promised a brace of classic F-16 fighter jets. This new deal was hammered out at the recent NATO summit in...
An 18-year-old Aberdeen University student and her mother will travel to space later this week after winning a place on Virgin Galactic’s second commercial flight in a prize draw. Anastatia Mayers and her mum Keisha Schahaff will be the first mother and daughter to go to space. They...
