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Jose Raul Mulino is sworn in as President of Panama during a ceremony at the Atlapa Convention Center in the capital. Mulino has promised to stop the passage of migrants through the dangerous Darien Gap and to revive the Panamanian economy dependent on the interoceanic canal. IMAGES TO COMPLETE VIDI362A73T_EN
"The seven souls we mourn today were there so that hungry people could eat," chef Jose Andres says of the World Central Kitchen staffers who were killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza, during remarks at a ceremony honoring their lives at the Washington National Cathedral. SOUNDBITE
Images show the President of Panama Laurentino Cortizo and President of Costa Rica Rodrigo Chaves holding a meeting in Panama City to discuss migration issues. IMAGES
Uruguay's former president Jose Mujica arrives with his wife, Lucia Topolansky, at La Moneda Palace in Santiago, as Chile commemorates the 50th anniversary of the military coup led by General Augusto Pinochet against socialist President Salvador Allende. IMAGES
On a visit to Portugal, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attends a business forum with the country's Prime Minister Antonio Costa. On his first European tour since resuming office in January, the veteran left-winger is seeking to revive his country's diplomatic ties after four years of relative isolation under his far-right predecessor Jair Bolsonaro, but tensions have been on display with the West over Ukraine. IMAGES