AFP via Getty Images "My brother was murdered for not paying an extortion payment...in front of his children," Edilma Martinez Flores said at a support centre for displaced people in Bogotá.
She fled her home on the outskirts of Cali, in the south-west, after armed criminal groups handed out leaflets ordering residents to leave or face violence.
"We had no choice but to leave our things behind. They started placing bombs along the routes people
Saeed M. M. T. Jaras/Anadolu via Getty Images Israeli strikes in Gaza have killed at least six people, including an Al Jazeera cameraman and at least one child, according to health officials and rescuers.
Al Jazeera said it "strongly condemns the heinous crime of targeting and killing" of its correspondent Ahmed Wishah, who was killed in a strike on a central Gaza home on Saturday.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) accused Wishah
AFP via Getty Images Lebanese environmental activist Mona Khalil, whose work helped turn a stretch of coastline in southern Lebanon into one of the eastern Mediterranean's most important nesting sites for endangered sea turtles, has died after being wounded in an Israeli strike.
Khalil, 76, was injured when her house on Mansouri beach, near the southern city of Tyre, was hit during Israeli attacks
The BBC has been given rare access to the part of southern Lebanon that is under Israeli occupation, as part of a humanitarian convoy of the Order of Malta distributing aid to Christian villages that have been isolated because of the war.
The mission happened on Thursday, a day before the announcement of a new ceasefire in the conflict between Israel and the Shia Muslim armed group Hezbollah. The team saw the Israeli military presence but was not allowed to film much of the journey.
Israel says it has no intention of withdrawing its troops
EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky says he has returned Poland's highest honour after his Polish counterpart Karol Nawrocki said he was stripping him of the award.
The Polish Order of the White Eagle was bestowed on Zelensky in 2023 by then-President Andrzej Duda.
But Kyiv caused outrage last month after renaming a Ukrainian army unit after a group of controversial World War Two
AFP via Getty Images The Iranian military says it has closed the Strait of Hormuz again over Israel's attacks on southern Lebanon.
Iran said Israel's strikes in Lebanon are a breach of Tehran's agreement with the US to end the war.
"Do not approach the Strait of Hormuz; otherwise, your security will be jeopardised," Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy said.
The US-Iran deal includes the
Reuters Bolivian President Rodrigo Paz has declared a state of emergency after weeks of protests demanding his resignation.
The move would give Paz broader powers to clear road blocks by demonstrators, which have caused serious shortages of basic goods and paralysed large parts of the nation.
In a statement, the president said the state of emergency would "free the country's roads" and "restore" normalcy.
Under law, Bolivia's Congress must approve or reject
Handout via REUTERS US President Donald Trump has hit out at Italy's prime minister, Giorgia Meloni, repeating his claim that she asked "over and over" for a picture of them together at the G7 summit this week.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump also accused her of not supporting US efforts to "deny] Iran from obtaining or developing a nuclear weapon".
He said that Meloni caused "a
EPA There are moments when life in Moscow feels completely normal. Thursday morning wasn't one of them.
In the south-east of the city an oil refinery had been hit during a Ukrainian drone attack - even from a distance the sight was surreal.
Thick smoke billowing from the direction of the facility had turned the sky dark. Like a giant black shroud, it hung over the Moscow skyline.
As extraordinary and eye-catching this was,