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Ecuador's military continues search operations as the country was declared under a "state of emergency" following an escalation of gang violence, since the prison escape of one of the country's most powerful narco bosses. IMAGES
A German court sentences a Gambian man to life in prison over his participation in a death squad that assassinated opponents of former dictator Yahya Jammeh, including AFP journalist Deyda Hydara. Bai Lowe,48, has been convicted of crimes against humanity, murder and attempted murder for his role as a driver for the hit squad known as the "Junglers". IMAGES
People rush to help a wounded Palestinian after he was shot by Israeli forces while waiting outside Ofer military for the Palestinian prisoner release that was setback. Hamas said that it was delaying the release of a second group of Israeli hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners until Israel complies with a truce agreement, in a bitter blow to relatives. IMAGES
The mother of slain journalist James Foley, Diane Foley, says the James W. Foley Legacy Foundation welcomes the life sentence for El Shafee Elsheikh after the member of the notorious Islamic State kidnap-and-murder cell known as the "Beatles" was sentenced to life in prison by a US court for the deaths of four American hostages in Syria. "With today's verdict we finally have a bit of justice," she says outside the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia. SOUNDBITE
Bilbao (Spain), Jun 22 (EFE) .- (Camera: Jon Garai) Mohamed Diouf and two of his friends, became heroes last Sunday, when they threw themselves into the Bilbao estuary to help a 72-year-old man who had fallen to the water at the height of the Ribera bridge, on the Marzana dock.SOUNDBITES OF MOHAMED DIOUF AND ÓSCAR MACHO. FOOTAGE OF THE BILBAO RIA AND THE RIBERA BRIDGE."On Sunday we were sitting there with our friend, then a person shouted there in the estuary, we see a man of legal age who falls into the river, then I and my two companions are running, there are many people but nobody wants to jump, but me I know how to swim and also my companions can swim, and I said: we are going to save him, without fear and then we fell into the water "."Well, I was on my day off as you say with a friend and my partner when suddenly we heard a loud noise in the estuary and we saw that a lot of people were crowding and then we approached and saw a person who fell into the estuary."