Marta was at her boyfriend’s house, moulding dough into circles to make tortillas, when five soldiers barged in. They forced the 19-year-old into the bedroom and raped her at gunpoint. Not long after that October afternoon in 1981, Marta fled her hometown of El Mozote in eastern El Salvador….

Against rumours of billions of dollars in Saudi aid, they mobilised. Heading to the city centres of Tunis and the southern city of Sfax, the disparate strands of Tunisia’s civil society came together, collectively rejecting both the presence and benevolence of Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. For the prince, a near-pariah in the western states he spent millions ...

The Central African Republic (CAR) could have landed windfall on Tuesday after Russian state bank VTB reported it had almost lent the country $12 billion by mistake. The sum is over six times the country’s gross domestic product. ……

Both protagonists of the Guardian’s ‘sources-based’ story, which claimed that Paul Manafort and Julian Assange secretly met prior to publication of leaked DNC emails, are threatening to sue the newspaper for libel. ……

Evidence which proves the existence of extraterrestrial civilisations could be hidden near Earth waiting to be discovered. Top astronomers have called for an urgent study of ‘interstellar objects’ which arrive here from deep space, suggesting some of them could be mysterious alien ‘artefacts’. Last year, the world was stunned when a bizarre cigar-shaped space rock called ‘Oumuamua sped through our ...

‘A cowardly dereliction of duty for someone hoping to keep her job as prime minister.’ (Picture: REX/ PA) At the last election, Theresa May was steadfast in her refusal to take part in a TV debate. When every other party leader agreed to face the public, she sent Amber Rudd in her place. It was a cowardly dereliction of duty ...

(CNN)Authorities are investigating the death of a woman and her 10-month-old daughter after they were found dead in a remote area of Canada’s Yukon territory, officials…

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — A report based on black box data from an Indonesian Lion Air jet that crashed last month cites equipment failures and the airline’s safety measures as factors in the disaster. The data reported Wednesday showed the pilots of the Boeing 737 MAX 8 struggled to maintain control as an automatic safety system repeatedly forced the plane’s ...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Roberto Patino, a rising star in Venezuela’s unravelling opposition movement, pushes through a crowd of children clutching spoons and waiting to eat. The 30-year-old organizes a crew that hands out hundreds of meals each day in slums throughout the capital. It’s the only solid nourishment of the day for many of the children in La Vega ...

Rejuvenation treatments at Swiss clinics, a beachfront mansion in Acapulco and a private zoo of lions: the US trial of drug baron Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman has been given an extraordinary glimpse into his life of excess. At the height of his power as one of the most notorious criminals in the world and most prolific drug traffickers on the ...