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How a Peaceful Country Became a Gold Rush State for Drug Cartels

Ecuador, on South America’s western edge, has become the drug trade’s gold rush state, with major cartels from as far as Mexico and Albania joining forces with prison and street gangs, unleashing a wave of violence unlike anything in the country’s recent history.

Top News Anchor Identified as Person Suspended by the BBC

The BBC staff member suspended on allegations of sexual misconduct was identified by his wife as Huw Edwards, an anchor on the BBC’s flagship nightly news program and one of its most prominent and distinguished figures.

Milan Kundera, Czech Literary Star and Communist Party Outcast, Dies at 94

Milan Kundera, the Communist Party outcast who became a global literary star with mordant, sexually charged novels that captured the suffocating absurdity of life in the workers’ paradise of his native Czechoslovakia, died on Tuesday in Paris. He was 94.

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