Bangladesh police have arrested 37 suspected Islamist militants as part of a nationwide crackdown on jihadists, an official said Saturday, following a spate of murders of minorities and secular activists.

Police officials said more than 1,000 people were detained after the anti-militant drive was launched across the Muslim-majority country on Friday, although that number included regular arrests.

El Salvador, ranked one of the most dangerous countries in the world, has nearly halved its staggeringly bloody monthly murder rate amid a fierce crackdown on fearsome gangs.

A woman's remains were found in a well and two corpses were discovered in clandestine graves in a southern Mexico municipality where five other bodies were found recently, authorities said Friday.

The man who stands most to benefit from Pedro Pablo Kuczynski's presidential victory in Peru may be his defeated rival's father: imprisoned ex-President Alberto Fujimori.

Kuczynski began the task of forming a government Friday after his rival Keiko Fujimori conceded defeat in Peru's closest presidential contest in five decades. His margin of victory was less than 43,000 votes — or 0.2 percentage points.

The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft landed in New York early Saturday, after flying by the Statue of Liberty at the end of the US portion of its bid to circle the globe using only solar power.

"It's absolutely incredible," Swiss pilot Andre Borschberg said over a live video feed as the iconic statue lit up the night below him. "It's a dream here."

Thirty-seven South Asian migrants without visas have been detained in Colombia after they were abandoned by human traffickers, officials said Friday.

The husband of an Iranian-British charity worker who has been held without charge in Iran since April on Friday called for her release at a rally outside the Iranian embassy in London.

Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev on Friday blamed radical Islamists for deadly shootings that left seven dead in the west of the oil-rich Central Asian state.

Gunmen marched into a remote mountain village in Mexico on Friday and killed 11 members of the same family, including two children, authorities said.

Five women, four men and two girls were killed in El Mirador, a community in central Puebla state, near Oaxaca, and the motive of the massacre was under investigation.

Venezuelan authorities set a timeline Friday for the next stage in the opposition's push to call a referendum to sack President Nicolas Maduro, but warned they would halt the process if violence erupts.

Electoral authorities will take fingerprint scans from June 20 to 24 to confirm the identity of people who signed a petition for a referendum, said the head of the National Electoral Board, Tibisay Lucena -- a small victory for the opposition as it races against the clock.