15 h. ago Ecuador's President Noboa reveals plot to poison him with toxic chocolate in second 'assassination attempt' weeks after his motorcade came under fire

The 37-year-old leader said that laboratory tests found three 'highly concentrated' toxic substances in the sweets and said their presence 'could not have been accidental.'

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8 d. ago Indigenous and environmental leaders in Ecuador say they are facing state intimidation

Critics say referendum on rewriting country’s eco-friendly constitution is president’s latest pro-extractivist moveIndigenous and environmental leaders in Ecuador say they are facing a wave of state intimidation ahead of a national referendum next month on whether to rewrite the world’s only constitution that recognises the rights of nature.The pressure is being applied by the rightwing president, Daniel Noboa, who has begun his second term with a Trumpian agenda of consolidating power and sweeping away legal and social barriers to extractivist businesses, such as mining. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Protesters clash with police in Ecuador amid nationwide strike over fuel prices

Crowds were protesting a spike in fuel prices in Ecuador’s capital of Quito, burning tires, blocking roads and facing off against police officers who reacted with volleys of tear gas

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2 w. ago Thomas Kwan: Second victim feared poison plot GP 'could have killed my family'

Dad-of-four Torquil Gundlach spoke for the first time of how he fell ill after drinking a bottle of vodka Kwan laced with thallium, banned as a rat poison due to its high toxicity

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2 w. ago Secret Colosseum tunnel used by Roman emperors reopens after nearly 2,000 years

It is believed Emperor Commodus survived an assassination attempt while walking through the tunnel

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2 w. ago Ecuador’s president unharmed after protesters attack his motorcade

Daniel Noboa’s convoy was attacked by a large group throwing stones in protest against rising fuel pricesEcuador’s president Daniel Noboa has escaped unharmed after his motorcade was targeted by stone-throwing protesters and what one minister described as a volley of gunshots.Noboa was inaugurating a water treatment plant in central Ecuador on Tuesday when his motorcade was set on by a large group protesting against rising fuel prices. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Protesters rally in Quito as Ecuador declares state of emergency in 10 provinces

Protesters both for and against Ecuador's President Daniel Noboa have rallied in the capital Quito

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2 w. ago Attempted assassin of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh sentenced to more than eight years in prison

Sophie Roske pleaded guilty to the assassination attempt in April

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3 w. ago California resident gets over 8 years in prison for attempt to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh

A California resident who attempted to assassinate U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his Maryland home has been sentenced to over eight years in prison

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3 w. ago US treasury considers special $1 Trump coin reading ‘fight, fight, fight’

US treasurer says officials looking at drafts for country’s 250th anniversary featuring president with raised fistTo commemorate the 250th anniversary of the US’s independence, the treasury department is mulling production of a $1 coin displaying Donald Trump with a clenched first under an American flag and the words “fight, fight, fight”.The words overtly reference what Trump said immediately after narrowly surviving an assassination attempt four months before he won a second presidency. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Vladimir Putin assassination attempt after plot try to kill him in plush resort revealed

Russian war analysts claim Ukrainian overnight drone strikes on Black Sea resort Sochi may have been an attempt to assassinate Vladimir Putin after his anti-Western rant

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3 w. ago Former Syrian president Bashar Assad 'is hospitalised by poisoning assassination attempt', respected rights group says

A source claimed that Assad 'had been poisoned' in an assassination operation.

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