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Ecuadorian President Guillermo Lasso attends his impeachment trial before the National Congress in Quito as supporters and opponents gather outside to watch the trial on a giant screen. The right-wing president is accused by his critics of wrongdoing in a state contract to transport crude oil. The motion will need at least 92 votes from the 137 MPs for the president to be removed from office. IMAGES
Scuffles break out outside the Moldovan parliament and angry protesters demand snap elections after lawmakers appoint the country's third prime minister in less than a year. Jennifer Davis reports.
EU chief Ursula von der Leyen recommends the bloc drop a plan to cut pesticide use in agriculture as a concession to protesting European farmers. The original proposal, put forward by her European Commission as part of the European Union's green transition, "has become a symbol of polarisation," she tells the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France. SOUNDBITE
People protest and clash with police in front of the Congress of Guatemala as the swearing-in ceremony of president-elect Bernardo Arevalo was delayed. The Congress, controlled by his opponents, was locked in debate over the admission of new lawmakers. IMAGES
Ecuador's new president, the 35-year-old millionaire heir to a banana empire Daniel Noboa, takes office as the leader of a country gripped by a bloody drug war. IMAGES
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