In Peru, a pair of mountaineers — Sandra Covone and Daniel Navarro — were killed after being buried by an avalanche on the Tocllaraju peak in the Áncash region. In Costa Rica, the president of football club Municipal Liberia, Wilder Eusse, was detained at the request of the United States government on drug-trafficking charges, prompting the Costa Rican Football Federation to reveal it had already flagged financial and legal inconsistencies in the club’s records. And in Queensland, Australia, a 32-year-old senior police constable was charged with rape and indecent assault and stood down from the police service ahead of a trial next year.
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