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Ecuador election: assassination looms large as voters prepare to go to polls

Winner of Sunday’s vote will face huge public demand to tackle violence after killing of candidate Fernando Villavicencio

The Guardian - UK

Ecuadorians vote Sunday for president after a campaign dominated by demands for safety

Ecuadorians will choose a new president Sunday, less than two weeks after the South American country was shaken by the assassination of one of the candidates

The Independent UK

Ecuador: how this 'island of peace' in Latin America has become a hotbed of violence run by criminal gangs and drug cartels

After the assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio in Quito on August 9, former president Rafael Correa posted a message on his social media feed: “Ecuador has become a failed state.” It was a stark message as the country prepares to go to the polls on Sunday August 20.

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Political leader in Ecuador is killed less than a week after presidential candidate's assassination

The unprecedented violence affecting Ecuador has claimed the life of another political leader, bringing the number of politics-related slayings within the last four weeks to three, including that of a presidential candidate

The Independent UK

Leader of Ecuadorian crime gang moved to maximum-security prison days after candidate's killing

Ecuador's government has moved the leader of one of the country’s most powerful gangs into a maximum-security prison

The Independent UK

Pope condemns 'unjustifiable' assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate

Pope Francis is strongly condemning the “unjustifiable” assassination of an Ecuadorian presidential candidate

The Independent UK

The year that broke US politics: what 1968 can tell us about 2024

Historian Luke Nichter considers the turmoil you know about – assassinations, chaotic conventions, the racist rise of George Wallace – but also the backroom dramas you don’t

The Guardian - US

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How Ecuador reached the shocking point of a political assassination

Ecuador is in a state of emergency after the assassination of a leading presidential candidate. Here's how the country got to this point.

WEKU

Cartel politics: On an assassination and Ecuador’s fight against drugs

If Ecuador’s politicians and state institutions continue to let criminal gangs have their way, it is only a matter of time before the country becomes a failed state

The Hindu

Lunch comments led to a Winklevoss ‘character assassination’ campaign, DCG claims

DCG punched back at claims by the Winklevoss twins in an ongoing lawsuit over the demise of Earn.

Fortune

Killing of Ecuador candidate deepens country's sense of vulnerability to crime

The brazen assassination of Ecuadorian presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio at a crowded political rally has deepened the country’s sense of vulnerability to its rising crime

The Independent UK

AP-Week in Pictures: Aug. 3 - Aug. 10, 2023

From fiery protests in Haiti, to wildfires in Hawaii, to an assassination in Ecuador, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images from around the world made or published by The Associated Press in the past week.

The Independent UK

Ecuador’s descent into violence reaches new low with candidate’s assassination

Shock and horror after Fernando Villavicencio, who campaigned on tough-on-crime platform, killed in burst of gunfire in Quito

The Guardian - US

Female ‘Russian spy’ detained over alleged Zelensky assassination plot

The woman ‘was caught red-handed’ trying to pass information to Russians, Ukrainian defence forces say

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Ukrainian mother who lost an eye in ‘attempted assassination’ is Playboy cover star

‘Doctors in Ukraine said I was probably going to die,’ Iryna Bilotserkovets said after attack. ‘I didn’t agree’

LiveScience

Rare 'Ides of March' dagger coin minted by Brutus after Julius Caesar's murder goes to auction

Brutus minted the silver denarius as a way to pay his troops in the aftermath of Julius Caesar's assassination.

Evening Standard

UK needs to guard against more assassination attempts on MPs, warns Cabinet minister Oliver Dowden

As the Government publishes a new register of risks facing the country

WEKU

Aid efforts for Haitians suffer blow with kidnapping of American nurse and daughter

Gang warfare has increasingly plagued Haiti since the 2021 assassination of President Jovenel Moïse. Criminal control has worsened and today the innocent are often killed, raped and held for ransom.

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The Guardian - US

Unrepentant Robert Kennedy Jr attempts to revive campaign after antisemitism accusations

At an event in New York hosted by celebrity rabbi Shmuley Boteach, RFK Jr told the audience he was facing ‘censorship’ and ‘character assassination’

The Guardian - US

Witness claims police said ‘Is he one of us?’ as they restrained Malcolm X killer

Mustafa Hassan says comment proved to him that police and FBI knew beforehand that there would be an attempt on activist’s life

The Independent UK

Lawyers for Malcolm X’s family reveal ‘explosive’ witness and video bolstering assassination conspiracy claims

Malcolm X was a pivotal figure in the struggle for Black civil rights and the nascent Black Power movement

The Independent UK

He witnessed Malcolm X’s assassination. 58 years later, he’s trying to help prove a government conspiracy

Prominent religious and civil rights leader was assassinated at 39-years-old in 1965. Ariana Baio reports

The Hindu

Sajjala refutes allegations that he asked Sunitha to address media on Viveka’s murder

YSRCP's Sajjala Ramakrishna Reddy refutes reports of suggesting Sunitha Reddy address media. CBI chargesheet a "third rated script" & character assassination of Vivekananda Reddy by TDP & "yellow media". YSRCP stands by Sunitha & will fight TDP & media till 2024.

The Guardian - US

Marielle Franco: new suspect arrested over killing of Rio city councillor

Brazil federal police say Maxwell Simões Corrêa helped plan 2018 assassination; two former police officers are already awaiting trial

Zenger

Declassified Files Reveal Bizarre Link Between JFK Assassination And UFO Sighting

Newly released documents connect CIA official to both Lee Harvey Oswald's mail interception and Soviet Union flying saucer incident.

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