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In the recent virtual Munich Security Conference, President Biden spoke of the many challenges facing the trans-Atlantic alliance, stating that the alliance itself is standing "at an inflection point."
Ecuador prison massacres claim 79 lives amid election tensions
The official death toll in a wave of rioting that swept through four penitentiaries in Ecuador rose to 79 Wednesday as police and troops took control of the prisons. The Ecuadorian daily
El Comercio reported that another 1,500 soldiers were deployed on the streets of the capital Quito because of the government’s fear of unrest.
Not a single guard or member of the security forces was killed in the prison violence, which was attributed by government officials and the media to a clash between members of rival gangs. It is not known how many of the prisoners were killed by security forces in retaking the facilities.
A controversy has erupted in Washington over a Trump-era plan to establish the first overseas office of the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), covering all of Southeast Europe, in Belgrade, Serbia. Signals that the Biden administration was taking a second look at this initiative mainly focused on promoting the Trump-era Kosovo-Serbia economic dialogue and rushed to approval in the final hours of the Trump administration in the style of a last-day-in-office presidential pardon, triggered alarm bells from some of the initiativeâs politically connected supporters largely but not exclusively in the powerful Greek American community. Â
Ironically, most of the Washington groups engaged in the defense of the DFC Belgrade office initiative have little or nothing invested in the success of the Kosovo-Serbia dialogue. Instead they jumped into the fray for one reason, believing that the DFC office itself was also a symbol of the so-far unrealized U
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