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Ricardo Patiño, Foreign Ministry of Ecuador, affirmed today to the International Press that he believe the United States was not responsible for the uprising of some police members last week, which differs from what Presidents of Venezuela and Bolivia previously said. “I...

Nigel de Jong, 25, soccer player for the Manchester City, was punished because of a foul that ended with the fracture of Hatem Ben Arfa. This event made the Dutch player and outcast of his team. Newcastle player, Ben Arfa ended up with a fracture on his left leg during the...

Giovanni Lappenti, Ecuadorian tennis player, got his 28th triumph in Quito’s red arena when he defeated German player Andre Begemann, last year’s semifinalist. The final score was 7 – 5 and 6 – 4. Lapentti, who has previously won 3 tournaments in Quito, became one of the...

Government points out the people responsible for the Police Uprising, among them is the participation of form President Lucio Gutiérrez. Last Thursday President Correa accused him of being responsible; he repeated this statement Saturday. Gutiérrez showed himself during an...

(AFP) KANO, Nigeria. During the last 6 months, more than 400 children under 5 years old died from lead poisoning in Nigeria, this information was given to AFP by Shafii Muhammad Ahmad, “Médicos Sin Fronteras” (MSF) coordinator. “According to the statistics of the deaths provoked...

QUITO – Several military were present outside the headquarters of the Ecuadorian Legislative Power in order to preserve security, while in the Main Assembly a short meeting proved and denounced the damages people on the Assembly were exposed to on last Thursday and exposed...

Reuters, Quito – According to Reuters, the government of Ecuador extended on Tuesday the State of Exception for 3 more days. On Tuesday afternoon, the Presidency announced that “The period of this renovation of the State of Exception is until October 8th”,...

The Municipalities of 23 cities in the Guayas province have ratified the CTG (Comisión de Tránsito del Guayas) as the entity in charge of traffic control in the province. The only two cities who didn’t recognize the CTG as the entity in charge were Jujan and Yaguachi.The...

STOCKHOLM, Russia. Scientists Andre Geim and Konstain Novoselov, native for Russia, received on Tuesday the 2010 Physics Nobel Prize for “groundbreaking experiments” with an atom-thin material expected to play a large role in electronics. Staffan Normark, secretary of...

The Government confirmed yesterday the increase of salary for the members of the National Police and the Armed Forces. This measure was taken after four days of the uprising in the capital, which caused the death of 13 people and left many wounded. Defense Ministry, Javier Ponce,...