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This Tuesday, the General Assembly of the UN decided to suspend Libya from the Human Rights Council of the UN. The decision was made because of the repression of the government of Muammar al Gaddafi. The General Assembly, with 192 members decided without voting the suspension of...

According to the National Electoral Council (NEC), those who will chose not to vote this May 7th in the coming Ecuadorian Referendum must pay $ 34.40 as a penalty. Edwin Jimenez, NEC Logistics Chief, said that according to art. 202 of the Democracy Code, the fine will be 10% of...

This Tuesday, Austria and Germany froze the bank accounts of the Libyan leader Muammar al Gaddafi and his family. These sanctions were made with the approval of the European Union and the United Nations. These measures also include the freezing of the funds of high officials, and...

Grammy Award winner Christina Aguilera was arrested at dawn for being publicly inebriated. The singer had to pay a $250 to bail out of prison. The singer was with her boyfriend, Matthew Rutler–who was driving drunk– when a police car ordered them to pull over. The...

Canadian singer Nelly Furtado has decided to donate the money that Libya President Muamar Gaddafi paid her for performing at a hotel. “In 2007, I was paid 1 million $ by the Gaddafi clan to play a 45 min. show for guests at a hotel in Italy. I am going to donate this $,” she...

In the province of Vizcaya, the Civil Guard gave a hard blow to the ETA during this morning. The agents apprehended four unknown members of ETA and also registered three houses in Bilbao and another one Galdakao. In the households the officers discovered and seized 200 kilograms...

  The Emblematic owl of Atletico Juniors team of Colombia died after it was expelled from the soccer field with an unwarranted kick of Deportivo Pereira Panamanian player, Luis Moreno, a few minutes after the meeting. Moreno, who immediately apologized publicly because of...

Today, five alleged drug dealers perished during crossfire and another five were arrested in the anti-narcotics operative performed in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The operative was made against the drug deals in Jacarezinho, one of the biggest favelas of Rio. The police performed the...

The creators of the Internet, Wikileaks and the leaders of Arab riots are among the 241 candidates for the Nobel Peace Prize this year. “The final number of candidates is 241, 53 of them are organizations,” Geir Lundestad (Nobel Institute director) said on Tuesday....

70,000 pupils from 130 public and charter schools, located in urban and rural areas, will receive more than 190,000 free books. Thanks to the municipal program “Más Libros Bachillerato,” the mayor of Guayaquil, Jaime Nebot Saadi, made the symbolic delivery of the free books...