QUITO, March 7 (Reuters) - Infighting between factions of a gang vying for control over territory in Ecuador's largest city Guayaquil left nearly two dozen people dead, authorities said on Friday.

Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa has granted preemptive pardons for police and military personnel responding to an armed attack that killed at least 22 in the southern city of Guayaquil yesterday.

Rival factions of an Ecuadoran drug trafficking gang fought Thursday in the violent port city of Guayaquil, leaving at least 22 people dead, officials said. Another three people were wounded in a ...

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Learn more about the Rohingya emergency here. Nearly 80% of the world’s climate-induced displacement is reportedly in Asia and the Pacific. As climate shocks become more frequent and severe, UNHCR ...

An explosion outside the Litoral Penitentiary, Ecuador's most dangerous prison, left one guard dead and two injured on ...

Twenty-two people were killed in gunfights in Guayaquil, Ecuador’s largest city, on Thursday, in what police described as a possible clash between rival factions of the Los Tiguerones criminal gang ...