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Increased activity at the Cotopaxi volcano lead to a state of emergency and precautionary evacuations in Ecuador. On Friday, it shot ash 12km (seven miles) into the air.

The move will allow Mr Correa to mobilise security forces throughout the country and give him greater leeway to use financial resources in the event an eruption.

QUITO, Ecuador (AP) – A 2-mile-high (5-kilometer-high) plume of ash shot out of the Cotopaxi volcano near Ecuador’s capital Friday in two pre-dawn blasts, coating highways, homes and cars with a fine gray powder.

“Ecuador must recognise its decision to harbour Mr Assange has prevented the proper course of justice”. He feared he could eventually be extradited from there to the U.S.to face charges for publishing thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables on the WikiLeaks website.

“As the statute of limitation has run on some of the crimes, I am compelled to discontinue the investigation with respect to these crimes”, Marianne Nye, Sweden’s director of public prosecution, said in a statement Thursday.

Morales, a prominent member of South America’s leftist bloc and one of the region’s most popular leaders, told Reuters in an interview he had sought a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama but had not received a response.

Twenty-five delegates of the Federation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador, or CONAIE, attended an invitation-only gathering Tuesday evening that included business leaders, and cultural and sports figures.

Francis started his last full day in Ecuador by saying an open-air Mass for almost a million people on the grounds of a former airport in the capital, Quito.

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez flew in to attend the mass along with Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes.

LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) – President Evo Morales is a huge fan of Pope Francis, and says he couldn’t be happier they are of the same mind that capitalism promotes social inequalities that leave the poor by the wayside. The city he’s just left, Quito, Ecuador, is...

Later Saturday, the pope spoke to grass-roots organizations, continuing his message of inclusiveness and heeding the call of the poor. Cazal is legally married to an Argentine, Sergio Lopez, though their union isn’t recognized in Paraguay. He told the British newspaper the...

Each statue is progressively degraded and broken, and less recognizable as a man. On the top step, there simply stands a pair of damaged feet: humanism has triumphed; humanity has been destroyed.

Since his election in 2013, the first pope from Latin America has often spoken out in defense of the poor and against unbridled capitalism but the speech in this Bolivian city was the most comprehensive to date on the issues he has championed.

Pope Francis decried what he called a genocide against Christians in the Middle East while speaking in Bolivia on Thursday. But he said Francis’ apology was particularly poignant given the setting.

Morales then hung a pouch around Francis’ neck, woven of alpaca with indigenous trimmings.