March 15 marked the 12th year of civil war in Syria, where bombs, poverty, and earthquakes have destroyed the country.
Some feminist groups used International Women’s Day to vandalize Catholic churches and public buildings in Latin American countries.
"I believe in the good will of all of us Panamanians and there is no other tool to find solutions than dialogue," Archbishop José Domingo Ulloa Mendieta of Panama told the local press at the start of the process of the talks to end the protests against the government over increases in the price of fuel and food.