After the engine on his small aluminium boat died, Junior Apiuta Apiuta battled loneliness, huge waves and bitter cold – but he never gave up

For eight days drifting alone in the vast Pacific Ocean, Junior Apiuta Apiuta battled towering waves, bitter cold and not knowing if he would ever see his family again.

Twice he was thrown into the ocean by huge swells that threatened to overwhelm him. “Big waves, way higher than the boat, slammed [me] from both sides … but I wasn’t scared because I never lost faith and stopped praying,” he says.

The 51-year-old daughter of late president Alberto Fujimori secured the top office after authorities spent weeks reviewing contested ballots

Peru’s conservative president-elect Keiko Fujimori has vowed to restore “order and hope” after defeating left-wing candidate Roberto Sanchez, in the latest victory for a resurgent Latin American right.

Fujimori won the 7 June presidential runoff by the slimmest of margins, outpolling Sanchez by fewer than 50,000 votes out of the more than 18 million ballots cast, the final results showed.

Federal and NSW police say more than 100 letters sent to MPs and community leaders since 2015

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Police are appealing for help in tracking down the mystery author of more than 100 letters, some threatening, sent to high-profile community figures.

The Australian federal police and New South Wales police have released excerpts of anonymous letters sent by someone who goes by “Scorpio” and “Bullit”.

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The lack of a clinical goalscorer has hampered the Dutch team in recent years, but Brian Brobbey has been the solution at this World Cup. The Sunderland striker didn’t initially project as a starter; Memphis Depay was their leading scorer up top through qualifying, but he was nursing a thigh injury in the run-up to the tournament.

Brobbey, who had just one international goal in 12 caps entering the World Cup, made his first start against Sweden and has three goals in his three shots on target since. Keep your eye on him during the opening quarter-hour: all three of his goals have come within the first 17 minutes.

Exclusive: Activist tells of his life as one of India’s most prominent political prisoners and his opposition to the government of Narendra Modi

Prison is hardest at sunset. As the thousands of prisoners incarcerated in Delhi’s most infamous jail are cast out of their cells and forced into the dank yard until darkness falls, prisoner number 626714 feels the punishing dread begin to rise.

Yet the inmate – better known as Umar Khalid – was recently moved to discover that another political prisoner, exiled at a camp thousands of miles from India, wrote of the very same feeling more than 150 years ago.

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