Paraguay

"Congress declares that at this time there is no president of the republic," opposition legislator Jorge Milan said. "Let's start the process to recover the constitutional order."

"Paraguay wants to contribute to an intensification of regional diplomatic efforts to achieve a broad, fair and lasting peace in the Middle East," the South American country's Foreign Minister Luis Alberto Castiglioni said.

The guns can fetch up to $10,000 each on the black market.

Dozens of heavily-armed criminals launched a three-hour assault on the vault of Prosegur, a firm specializing in the transport of cash.

South America's faithful have flocked to see the Argentine-born pontiff.

Paraguayan law permits abortion if a mother's life is endangered. Pope Francis last year called abortion "horrific," and has shown no signs of changing the Catholic Church's position.