Ecuador

• Ecuadorian court hands down max sentences to 11 soldiers in case of 4 disappeared minors - A court in Ecuador handed lengthy prison sentences Monday to a group of eleven soldiers who were responsible for the abduction and torture of four children last year — a case that has rattled the South American nation and raised questions a
• Trump Administration Pushes Asylum Seekers to Apply in Other Countries - In immigration courts, U.S. lawyers have filed thousands of requests to dismiss asylum cases and force people to pursue asylum elsewhere.
• 13 inmates die in violence-plagued Ecuador prison - Thirteen inmates died at the weekend in a prison in Ecuador that has seen 44 killed in violence in the past month, authorities said Monday.Thirty-one inmates died in the same prison last month, many by asphyxiation, after a deadly armed rio