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The second hearing against the opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez and four students who were arrested during February protests, was suspended for August 13. Juan Carlos Gutierrez, a member of the defending team leader Will Popular (VP), mentioned at outside the court that “it...

The Council of Citizen Participation and Social Control yesterday (August 5) formed the citizens commission that will head the renovation contest of two of the five members of the National Electoral Council (CNE for its Spanish acronym). The commission is composed of: Edwin...

Mortgage credits that are originated in Guayaquil will be processed in the city and not in Quito. The Bank of the Ecuadorian Institute of Social Security (Biess for its Spanish acronym) has opened an office to manage, approve and disburse loan applications. It ...

The Comptroller General Carlos Polit ordered on Friday, August 1st, the opening of a “preliminary verification” by the Secretariat of Communications of the Presidency (Secom) to the contract for $ 6.4 million conducted by the American public relations firm Mcsquared...

On the second day of a cease-fire that ended a month of war, Israel and Hamas began indirect talks this Wednesday on a new border agreement for Gaza. Israel wants the Islamic militant Hamas disarms, or at least ensure that no rearmament, before responding to a claim for reopening...

The government is preparing a plan for the scrapping of gas stoves that will be replaced by electric induction cookers from the end of this month. The Coordinator Minister of Production Richard Espinosa noted that users would receive some money for their used artifacts. More...

Yesterday, representatives of the `Concertación´ political Movement filed a legal action against the constitutional amendments proposed by the ruling party, in the Constitutional Court. César Montúfar filed a plea to the Court for not giving the green light to the request For...

The U.S. program that sent young Latin American people to Cuba on alleged missions for health and development aid, and which from its background sought political change on the island, has been severely criticized by the local media. The project was “another freak of USAID...

On August 5, President Rafael Correa participated in the celebrations for the independence of Esmeraldas with the opening of the first milennium school in the province: the Simon Plata Torres campus, of 4 hectares, located in the parish Simón Plata Torres. The investment was $...

U.S. Army General Harold Greene, 55, was shot dead by a man in the uniform of into a Afghan soldier based in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul. Were injured in the shooting up to 15 more soldiers, including a German brigadier-General and other U.S. and died three senior...