El Salvador

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Meet the children left without parents under El Salvador’s emergency decree

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Press freedom declines in Americas, with US seeing sharpest drop: Report

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From: Making Peace

‘Pain Didn’t Come to Kill Me’ | Ep 4 – El Salvador

El Salvador’s bereaved mothers unite after gang violence, turning shared grief into solidarity and hope beyond hatred.

Smoke and fire rises from the Gath shelter, housing displaced Palestinians, after an Israeli air strike in the west of Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip

Smoke and fire engulf the Gath shelter for displaced Palestinians during an Israeli air strike in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on January 31, 2026. According to Gaza's Ministry of Health, Israeli air strikes that day killed 11 people across the territory, including Palestinians seeking refuge in a tent in the southern region. [Bashar Taleb/AFP]

Jammu and Kashmir Special Operation Group (SOG) personnel question local residents during a house-to-house search operation as part of heightened security measures ahead of India's Republic Day in Srinagar

Jammu and Kashmir Special Operations Group personnel interrogate local residents during door-to-door searches before India's Republic Day celebrations in Srinagar in India-administered Kashmir. [Mukhtar Khan/AP Photo]

Farmers march with their tractors during a protest against the EU-Mercosur trade deal and the economic pressures facing the agricultural sector in Valladolid

Farmers march through Valladolid, Spain, accompanied by tractors to protest the EU-Mercosur trade deal and mounting economic challenges confronting the agricultural sector. [Cesar Manso/AFP]

Afghans watch from a hilltop as horsemen compete during 'Buzkashi', a traditional Central Asian sport in the Jurm district of Badakhshan province

Afghan men find an elevated vantage point to watch horsemen vie in Buzkashi, a traditional Central Asian sport, in the Jurm district of Badakhshan province, Afghanistan. [Omer Abrar/AFP]

An aerial picture shows a landslide at Pasirlangu village in Cisarua, Bandung, West Java

A landslide in Pasirlangu village in Cisarua district of Indonesia's West Java province killed 16 people, and about 80 people remain missing. [Timur Matahari/AFP]

Inmates remain in a cell during a visit by Chiles president-elect Jose Antonio Kast (out of frame) to the Counter-Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT) mega-prison, where hundreds of MS-13 and 18th Street gang members are being held, in Tecoluca, El Salvador

Inmates are confined to their cells during a visit by Chilean President-elect Jose Antonio Kast to the Terrorism Confinement Centre mega-prison in Tecoluca, El Salvador. The facility is Latin America's largest prison and has become a symbol of President Nayib Bukele's anti-gangs operations. [Oscar Rivera/AFP]

a groundbreaking ceremony marking the start of a regional development policy-oriented construction in Unnyul County, South Hwanghae Province.

A groundbreaking ceremony marks the start of construction for a regional development policy project in Unnyul County of South Hwanghae province in North Korea. [Handout: KCNA/KNS via AFP]

Cuban soldiers take part in the Torchlight March on the 173rd anniversary of National Hero Jose Marti (a leader of Cubas independence from Spain and founder of the Cuban Revolutionary Party) in Havana

Cuban soldiers in Havana participate in a torchlight march commemorating the 173rd anniversary of the birth of Cuban independence leader Jose Marti and opposing US threats against the Caribbean island. [Adalberto Roque/AFP]

Rescue workers clear the rubble of a residential building which was heavily damaged after a Russian strike in Odesa, Ukraine

Rescue workers clear the rubble of a residential building hit in a Russian strike in the southern Black Sea port city of Odesa, Ukraine. [Michael Shtekel/AP Photo]

Family members mourn the death of a relative killed in an attack by Baloch separatists

Family members grieve at a hospital in Quetta, Pakistan, over the loss of a relative killed during an assault by Baloch separatists. Officials reported that on January 31, 2026, ethnic Baloch separatists conducted coordinated attacks throughout Balochistan province, killing nearly 200 people. [Adnan Ahmed/AFP]