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MEXICO CITY: A woman walks in front of a graffiti before a demonstration on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in Mexico City. - AFPn

Thousands join global outcry over violence against women
QUITO: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken gives his thumb up during a visit to the Camari market centre, where local artisans and farmers exhibit their products, in Quito. - AFP n

Blinken promises US' shift from military focus in Latin America
PANAMA CITY: A group of children are homeschooled in Panama City.—AFP

No class for a year now: Pandemic worsens Latin America inequality
Members of the Military Firefighter Brigate of Minas Gerais (CBMMG) wearing protective gear, demonstrate the use of an isolation stretcher, or bubble stretcher, to transport patients infected with coronavirus (COVID-19), at Pampulha Airport, in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, on July 22, 2020. - The equipment, which can be used to transport patients in aircrafts and ambulances, filters the air that the patient exhales in addition to isolating him. (Photo by DOUGLAS MAGNO / AFP)

Latin America cases soar; Global COVID infections pass 15 million
Refrigeration trucks that will serve as a temporary morgue are parked the Centro de Convenciones Bicentenario -a convention centre- where a 370-bed field hospital for COVID-19 coronavirus patients is being build in Quito on April 23, 2020. - The number of coronavirus cases in Ecuador almost doubled to 22,000 following the processing of a testing backlog, the health minister said on Thursday. (Photo by RODRIGO BUENDIA / AFP)

Dead bodies piled up in bathrooms
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Women suffer as lockdown worsens 'domestic hell' across Latin America
A pick-up truck carries coffins as its drives past the IESS Hospital Los Ceibos in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on April 13, 2020 during the novel coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. - With hundreds of bodies left decaying in homes for days due to lack of space in the city's overwhelmed morgues and hospitals, the coronavirus has struck a blow to Ecuador's economic capital Quayaquil, now a symbol of the chaos the pandemic can unleash among Latin America's poor. (Photo by Jose S·nchez / AFP)

COVID-19 hits 'like a bomb' as toll rises in Ecuador 's business capital
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Military roadblocks and curfews: Latin America tightens virus controls
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DOHA: Kuwait’s Minister of Interior Sheikh Fahad Yusuf Saud Al-Sabah speaks at the 41st meeting of the Interior Ministers of the Gulf Cooperation Council. — KUNA photos
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