Ecuador

Our reporter, Guillermo Galdos, visited the once peaceful city for Unreported World, and spent two weeks with the local police, who are now outgunned and outnumbered.

At least 24 people have been killed in a landslide in Ecuador.

In the Ecuadorian Amazon, indigenous communities are fighting back, like the Waorani tribe defending 500,000 acres of forest from oil extraction and threats of sale by the government.  

Time runs out for Swedish prosecutors to investigate some of the allegations against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange. But he is not expected to leave the Ecuadorean embassy any time soon.

While the US and UK stand by Israel over its military offensive in Gaza, governments across Latin America have moved to cut their links.

Ben Westwood is planning a fashion show in the Ecuadorian embassy to “keep Julian Assange in the public eye” but rape survivor Jill Saward brands the stunt as “sick.”

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange – hiding for two years in the Ecuadorian embassy – is in “a prison cell with internet access” and “yearns to walk in the fresh air,” says a close friend.

Scientists in America discover a new animal living in the cloud forests of Colombia and Ecuador – the first new species of carnivore mammal to be identified for 35 years.

The head of the British company accused of bugging the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, tells Channel 4 News the allegation is “utterly ridiculous”.

The father of the fugitive whistleblower Edward Snowden tells NBC television that his son may return to face trial in the US under certain conditions.

Julian Assange says Edward Snowden is “healthy and safe” hours after the surveillance whistleblower did not turn up for a flight he was expected to catch to Cuba.

The diplomatic stand-off over Julian Assange shows no sign of abating, as the Ecuadorian foreign minister says the WikiLeaks founder is prepared to stay in Ecuador’s London embassy for five years.

Private Bradley Manning goes on trial more than three years after he was arrested in Iraq and charged with the biggest leak of classified information in US history.

The US army private, Bradley Manning – accused of being behind the biggest leak of military secrets in history – goes on trial. He allegedly passed on secret files to the website WikiLeaks.

James Ball, a former employee at Wikileaks, says the company bears “some responsibility” for the trial of Private Bradley Manning, due to start on Monday, over the leaking of military secrets.