Police are investigating the brazen daylight shooting of 23-year-old Landy Parraga amid media speculation the hit was ordered over an affair with a drug lord.
The best photos from the international wire agencies as chosen by our picture editors.
A little-known culture built arrow-straight roads and canals through thick jungle to connect urban settlements where they ate sweet potatoes and drank beer.
The people,wearing balaclavas and largely dressed in black,were seen on the live feed wielding guns and accosting huddled staffers.
The experienced businessman but inexperienced politician achieved something his father,the richest man in Ecuador,tried and failed to achieve five times.
The killing of the seven suspects happened a little more than a week before Ecuador holds a presidential run-off election and as officials struggle to explain how this was possible.
Ballots have already been printed,but votes for the slain Fernando Villvicencio will automatically transfer to Andrea Gonzalez,who was to be his running mate,as the new leader of the party.
Six Colombian nationals with gang links have been arrested over the assassination of Ecuadorean presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio.
A state of emergency has been declared in the Andean nation. A suspect died after a shootout with police.
Numerous studies have indicated that further deforestation would transform the Amazon into a net emitter of greenhouse gases and be disastrous to the planet.
Long after the Galapagos Islands inspired Charles Darwin,they’ve become a natural selection for bucket-listers.